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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations. But many organizations are limiting use of public tools while they set policies to source and use generative AI models.

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Microsoft’s Copilot tunes could be music to CIOs’ ears

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During his 53-minute keynote, Nadella showcased updates around most of the company’s offerings, including new large language models (LLMs) , updates to Azure AI Studio , Copilot Studio , Microsoft Fabric , databases offerings , infrastructure , Power Platform , GitHub Copilot , and Microsoft 365 among others.

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

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SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems. Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions.

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AI adoption accelerates as enterprise PoCs show productivity gains

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Some prospective projects require custom development using large language models (LLMs), but others simply require flipping a switch to turn on new AI capabilities in enterprise software. “AI We don’t want to just go off to the next shiny object,” she says. “We We want to maintain discipline and go deep.”

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Bandit ML helps e-commerce businesses present the most effective offer to each shopper

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Conti (who founded the company with Lionel Vital and Joseph Gilley) is a former Uber software engineer and researcher himself. Bandit ML aims to optimize and automate the process of presenting the right offer to the right customer. The startup was part of the summer 2020 class at accelerator Y Combinator. It also raised a $1.32

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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models

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-based companies, 44% said that they’ve not hired enough, were too siloed off to be effective and haven’t been given clear roles. “The major challenges we see today in the industry are that machine learning projects tend to have elongated time-to-value and very low access across an organization.

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Deep tech startups in need of funding should consider federal grants

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Xipeng Shen is a professor at North Carolina State University and ACM Distinguished Member, focusing on system software and machine learning research. Our team of researchers started CoCoPIE to solve the chip shortage crisis. CoCoPIE’s vision is to enable real-time AI for off-the-shelf mobile devices.