Andreessen Horowitz Growth team partners Sarah Wang and Shangda Xu interviewed several enterprise leaders and surveyed 70 more to learn more about the attitudes toward AI adoption and spending. They have published their findings in a compelling report, which we distilled into this piece.
A brief recap of NVIDIA's GTC 2024; Inflection AI and Stability AI lost essential team members ; Stability AI launched SV3D and introduced Image Services on its Developer Platform; Runway announced strategic partnerships; Google was charged with a $270M fine by France's Autorité de la Concurrence
Pienso, a startup founded by MIT Media Lab alum Birago Jones and Karthik Dinakar, announced that it secured $10 million in a Series A round led by new investor Latimer Ventures. Pienso offers a no-code platform that enables non-technical users to annotate large volumes of data to train algorithms.
Anthropic officially launched Claude 3 Haiku on the claude.ai platform, the Claude API, and Amazon Bedrock, with upcoming Google Cloud Vertex AI availability. The vision-enabled model is fast, affordable, and is particularly adept at math reasoning and coding.
Following Elon Musk's latest dispute with OpenAI, lawsuit included, xAI has followed through with the promise of delivering an open release of Grok-1. The weights and architecture have been released under an Apache 2.0 license, and the inference code is available on xAI's GitHub.
NVIDIA's Omniverse Cloud APIs enable developers to integrate RTX rendering and OpenUSD into their software tools and simulation workflows. Industry leaders worldwide leverage the Omniverse Cloud APIs to enhance their workflows and deliver solutions for the development of digital twin simulations.
The newly launched NVIDIA microservices enable organizations to build and deploy AI applications locally while preserving control of their data. NIM supplies high-performing containers for proprietary and open model deployment while CUDA-X accelerates the production process.
NVIDIA announced its new Blackwell architecture at the GTC keynote. Blackwell is the Hopper architecture successor, featuring a 30x performance increase and a 25x cost and energy consumption decrease when training or performing real-time inference for LLMs of up to 10 trillion parameters.
Jan Koum's Newlands VC leads $10M investment into SuperAGI; Apple quietly bought DarwinAI to compete in the gen AI race; Databricks announces a partnership with Mistral AI; Zendesk confirms the acquisition of Ultimate; OpenAI partners with Le Monde and Prisa Media
Deci is debuting a series of LLMs and a Gen AI Development Platform. The first model is Deci-Nano, which features competitive benchmark scores, a fast throughput, and an affordable price. Deci-Nano and supported models can be deployed via Deci's platform via API, a VPC, or on-premises.
Join the Data Phoenix webinar, where Dmytro Spodarets and guest Andrey Cheptsov (Founder & CEO at dstack) will discuss the drawbacks of the Kubernetes stack in the context of AI and show how dstack addresses these drawbacks in the training and deployment of GenAI models.
Cohere recently launched Command-R, a RAG-focused model incorporating several features designed with scalable implementation in mind, including a large context window, business proficiency in 10 languages, and tool access via external APIs. Command-R is available for deployment starting March 11.