Google and Microsoft are still riding the AI wave.

Demand for cloud services boosted both companies’ revenue in the last quarter. Microsoft and Google are proving there’s money to be made in generative AI—at least when there are cloud services to sell along with it. While investors may be growing impatient with Mark Zuckerberg’s far-sighted AI dreams, things looked rosier for other competitors in the BigContinue reading “Google and Microsoft are still riding the AI wave.”

Apple’s ‘Ferret’ is a new open-source machine learning model,

Researchers working for Apple and from Cornell University quietly pushed an open-source multimodal LLM in October, a research release called “Ferret” that can use regions of images for queries. The introduction in October to Github largely flew under the radar, with no announcement or fanfare for its introduction. The code for Ferret was released alongsideContinue reading “Apple’s ‘Ferret’ is a new open-source machine learning model,”

Prompt engineering leading AI software design innovations.

“You can have GitHub Copilot from me when you pry it from my cold, dead hands,” a Microsoft engineer says. Ask John Montgomery, Microsoft corporate VP of product, how he thinks AI is affecting his work, and he’ll tell you that he’s bullish on the technology—particularly GitHub’s programming helper Copilot. “You can have GitHub CopilotContinue reading “Prompt engineering leading AI software design innovations.”