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[News] Google showcased its AI ecosystem at Google Cloud Next '24 Google Cloud Next '24 took place last week and featured an opening keynote delivered by CEO Thomas Kurian. The keynote was brimming with announcements covering everything from its AI Hypercomputer to the newly Gemini-infused Workspace, as Google revamped every layer in its AI stack. https://dataphoenix.info/google-cloud-next-24-offered/

[News] Spotify launches AI Playlist beta for Premium users in Australia and the UK Spotify is releasing AI Playlist as a beta feature for Premium users in Australia and the UK. AI Playlist lets users create and refine personalized playlists via text-based prompts on a chat interface. https://dataphoenix.info/spotify-launches-ai-playlist-beta-for-premium-users-in-australia-and-the-uk/

[News] This Week in AI: March 31 – April 6 Hailo secures additional funds and introduces Hailo-10 for edge devices; Luminance raised $40 million in Series B led by March Capital; The US and the UK signed into a partnership on AI safety; Stability AI launched Stable Audio 2.0; Google won big in the AI talent-luring battle; and more. https://dataphoenix.info/this-week-in-ai-march-31-april-6/

[News] There's more to the 'AI boom' than foundational model companies The AI boom is often associated with the lightning-fast rise of foundational model companies like OpenAI. Once more, NVIDIA reminds us that hardware is also important, as its groundbreaking financial growth shines its light upon other AI hardware-related stocks. https://dataphoenix.info/theres-more-to-the-ai-boom-than-foundational-model-companies/

[News] OpenPipe announces its $6.7M seed funding round OpenPipe secured $6.7 million, in a seed funding round led by Costanoa Ventures and featuring the participation of Y Combinator and a selection of investors, to enable developers and enterprises to substitute their GPT-4 prompts with fine-tuned models and to build their custom data flywheel. https://dataphoenix.info/openpipe-announces-its-6-7m-seed-funding-round/

[News] The 2024 Machine Learning, AI & Data Landscape is hot off the presses The 2024 MAD Landscape opens with a chart neatly organizing 2,011 active AI companies. The consequent discussion is equally informative and amusing, with this piece aiming to provide a not-too-brief overview. https://dataphoenix.info/this-years-machine-learning-ai-data-landscape-is-out/

[News] Activeloop announces its Series A with a reflection on the future of AI data Activeloop, the AI data infrastructure company behind Deep Lake, celebrates its $11M Series A with an illuminating reflection on AI data's past, present, and future. Where the present struggles are caused by a data stack from the past, Deep Lake emerges as a promising future for the AI data stack. https://dataphoenix.info/activeloop/

[News] The UXL Foundation's programming model will free developers from NVIDIA's chokehold The Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation has brought together a team of industry-leading organizations to develop the largest open ecosystem for accelerated computing based on Intel's OneAPI. This platform would allow, among other things, the migration out of NVIDIA's CUDA software platform. https://dataphoenix.info/the-uxl-foundations-programming-model-will-free-developers-from-nvidias-chokehold/

[News] Adaptive ML secured $20M in seed funding to democratize LLM preference tuning Adaptive ML is tackling the hurdles that keep enterprises and individuals from interacting with highly customized and user-personalized generative AI experiences. To this end, the company has secured $20M in seed funding to accelerate the development of its enterprise platform, Adaptive Engine. https://dataphoenix.info/adaptive-ml-secured-20m-in-seed-funding/

[News] Andreessen Horowitz published a report on the shift in attitudes toward AI adoption and spending 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. https://dataphoenix.info/andreessen-horowitz-published-a-report-on-the-shift-in-attitudes-toward-ai-adoption-and-spending/