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Together lands $102.5M investment to grow its cloud for training generative AI

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Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, which today announced that it closed a $102.5

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Inside Walmart’s generative AI journey

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“Our people make the difference” — a common catchphrase of Walmart founder Sam Walton — still guides the company’s path forward as it ventures into the future with generative AI. The move places Walmart among a handful of companies (aside from tech giants) that have leveraged generative AI at scale.

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American Honda IT to fuel innovation with generative AI

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Generative AI takes a front seat As for that AI strategy, American Honda’s deep experience with machine learning positions it well to capitalize on the next wave: generative AI. The ascendent rise of generative AI last year has applied pressure on CIOs across all industries to tap its potential.

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Rocket Mortgage lays foundation for generative AI success

CIO

That’s why Rocket Mortgage has been a vigorous implementor of machine learning and AI technologies — and why CIO Brian Woodring emphasizes a “human in the loop” AI strategy that will not be pinned down to any one generative AI model. For example, most people know Google and Alphabet are the same employer.

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French regulator fines Google $271M over generative AI copyright issue

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France’s competition authority fined Google, its parent company Alphabet, and two subsidiaries a total of €250 million ($271 million) for breaching a previous agreement on using copyrighted content for training its Bard AI service, now known as Gemini. Generative AI, Regulation

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Generative AI: the Shortcut to Digital Modernisation

CIO

THE BOOM OF GENERATIVE AI Digital transformation is the bleeding edge of business resilience. Notably, organisations are now turning to Generative AI to navigate the rapidly evolving tech landscape. Notably, organisations are now turning to Generative AI to navigate the rapidly evolving tech landscape.

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10 most in-demand generative AI skills

CIO

If any technology has captured the collective imagination in 2023, it’s generative AI — and businesses are beginning to ramp up hiring for what in some cases are very nascent gen AI skills, turning at times to contract workers to fill gaps, pursue pilots, and round out in-house AI project teams.