Topic: ai

Year in review: Generative AI takes the tech world by storm

To say 2023 was a year taken up mostly by AI would be a massive understatement. Following the release of ChatGPT at the very end of 2022, generative AI blew up in 2023.  According to Reuters, ChatGPT had grown to 100 million active users by January 2023, which was just two months after it launched.  … continue reading

Bugcrowd announces rating taxonomy for LLMs

Bugcrowd has announced updates to its Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy (VRT), which categorizes and prioritizes crowdsourced vulnerabilities.  The new update specifically addresses vulnerabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs) for the first time. The VRT is an open-source initiative aiming to standardize how suspected vulnerabilities reported by hackers are classified.  “This new release of VRT not only … continue reading

OpenAI creates a framework for understanding and dealing with the risks of advanced AI models

OpenAI shared that it has created the Preparedness Framework to help track, evaluate, forecast, and protect against the risks associated with advanced AI models that will exist in the future, or frontier models.  The Preparedness Framework is currently in beta, and it covers the actions OpenAI will take to safely develop and deploy frontier models.  … continue reading

OpenAI announces Superalignment grant fund to support research into evaluating superintelligent systems

OpenAI is announcing a new grant program to help companies who are working on making superintelligent systems safe, as the company believes superintelligence could be achieved within the next decade. According to the company, these advanced systems will “be capable of complex and creative behaviors that humans cannot fully understand.”  The current technique for ensuring … continue reading

Copado is bringing generative AI to DevOps with beta for CopadoGPT

Copado, a provider of a Salesforce DevOps platform, has expanded the beta program for its AI platform, CopadoGPT, to all customers after successful internal validation.  CopadoGPT serves as a cross-platform intelligence layer that provides advice and recommendations on Salesforce DevOps best practices, accelerating test generation, enriching user stories, and generating release notes.  The company created … continue reading

Google’s Gemini Pro now available to developers via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI

After announcing its new multimodal AI model Gemini last week, Google is making several announcements today to enable developers to build with it.  When first announced, Google said that Gemini will come in three different versions, each tailored to a different size or complexity requirement. In order from largest to smallest, Gemini is available in … continue reading

Microsoft Learn launches generative AI course for entrepreneurs

Microsoft revealed the addition of a new series, “Generative AI for Innovators,” to the AI Kick-off Projects collection, which is a collection of projects that use AI that students can learn from.  This series is designed for aspiring AI entrepreneurs, providing them with guidance on utilizing the capabilities of AI, including tools like GPT-4 and … continue reading

Atlassian adds AI capabilities across Jira, Confluence, and more

Atlassian announced that the first wave of Atlassian Intelligence capabilities is generally available across its cloud platform. “Our mission at Atlassian is to unleash the potential of every team. We believe the future of teamwork will be a partnership between humans and artificial intelligence (AI), wherever work gets done,” the company wrote in a blog … continue reading

EU reaches provisional agreement for new AI regulation

Over the weekend, the European Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators concluded three days of talks to reach a provisional agreement on a proposal for regulating AI in the European Union (EU).  “The draft regulation aims to ensure that AI systems placed on the European market and used in the EU are safe and … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Purple Llama

Meta’s AI team has announced the release of a new project called Purple Llama that will include tools and evaluations to assist in responsibly building AI models.  The components within Purple Llama will be released with a permissive license to enable collaboration by the community and to help standardize the development of trust and safety tools.  … continue reading

JetBrains adds AI Assistant to all of its IDEs

JetBrains has introduced an AI Assistant in all of its IDEs, with availability in other JetBrains products expected soon.  “Empowering developers with AI-backed features supports the long-standing mission of JetBrains: to improve your experience by automating common and repetitive tasks, enabling you to stay in the flow and focus on the big picture,” said Svetlana … continue reading

IBM and Meta lead 50 other organizations to form global AI Alliance

IBM and Meta have come together — along with 50 other organizations — to form the AI Alliance, “a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government coming together to support open innovation and open science in AI.” By bringing together a diverse set of types of organizations, the AI Alliance hopes … continue reading

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