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Ik ben redacteur bij IT Insights, bekend om de diepgaande analyse en scherpe inzichten in de wereld van informatietechnologie. Met een achtergrond in computerwetenschappen en journalistiek, combineren we technische expertise met verhalende vaardigheden om complexe IT-trends toegankelijk te maken voor een breed publiek.

OpenAI wijzigt bestuursstructuur en vermindert invloed non-profit raad

In een onverwachte wending die de AI-wereld op zijn kop zet, heeft OpenAI, het bedrijf achter de revolutionaire…

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NetApp introduceert nieuwe systemen voor verbeterde block storage

Revolutionair: NetApp’s nieuwe systemen tilt block storage naar hoger niveau! NetApp heeft onlangs aangekondigd dat ze hun kritische…

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Digitate en AWS werken samen aan autonome IT-operaties

“Dit is waarom Digitate en AWS de perfecte match zijn!” Digitate, een toonaangevende leverancier van AI-oplossingen, heeft onlangs…

Ubisoft stelt lancering nieuwe Assassin’s Creed-titel uit

In een onverwachte wending heeft Ubisoft Entertainment SA aangekondigd dat de release van de langverwachte game ‘Assassin’s Creed…

 ​​Microsoft has released the September 2024 non-security preview update for Windows 10, version 22H2, with fixes for bugs causing Edge web browser freezes and media playback issues. [...]

Microsoft brengt Windows 10 KB5043131 update uit met negen wijzigingen en oplossingen

Microsoft heeft de september 2024 niet-beveiligingsupdate voor Windows 10, versie 22H2, uitgebracht, met 9 belangrijke wijzigingen en fixes…

 The iconic Winamp media player has fulfilled a promise made in May to go open-source and has now published its complete source code on GitHub. [...]

Winamp wordt open source, biedt nieuwe mogelijkheden voor mediaspeler

In een tijdperk waarin technologie voortdurend evolueert, blijft de nostalgie voor klassieke software zoals Winamp sterk aanwezig. Deze…

 Samsung is likely to announce three new mobile devices this week, the Galaxy S24 FE, Tab S10 Plus, and Tab S10 Ultra. Now we know what each of these will cost.

Samsung presenteert prijzen voor Galaxy S24 FE en Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra

Samsung staat op het punt om deze week drie nieuwe mobiele apparaten aan te kondigen: de Galaxy S24…

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OLED TV-modellen ontvangen prijsverlagingen bij retailers

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 Molmo, the new multimodal AI model from the non-profit Allen Institute for AI, correctly points to the ketchup bottle in a refrigerator door. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop, screenshot from Ai2 demo site.) Turing Test? Whatever. Meet the Refrigerator Challenge. A new multimodal artificial intelligence model from the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2), works with visual data in novel ways. It can analyze and describe images, like other AI models, but it goes further by pointing to different parts of the image — annotating them with glowing pink dots. It’s called “Molmo,” and it’s actually four models, ranging in size from 1 billion to 72 billion parameters. Leaders of the Seattle-based AI nonprofit say Molmo shows the power of an open approach to AI, proves the value of high-quality training data, and unlocks new capabilities for AI agents, robots, and augmented and virtual reality. But after getting access to the Molmo demo site in advance of its unveiling Wednesday morning, I decided to test the technology on another frontier — my family fridge — challenging the AI with a task known to stump certain humans. In an impressive display of visual perception, Molmo pointed correctly to the ketchup in my refrigerator door, as shown in the image above, despite the plastic bottle being turned around. It also found the lettuce and grapes in the drawers, the yogurt on the first and second shelves, and the package of chicken. For the record, Molmo wasn’t able to find the bottle of beer tucked into the back of the lowest shelf, despite the “Modelo” label being just barely visible in the image. Hey, I can empathize. We’ve all got room for improvement. Household tech tests aside, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. Ai2 uses an open approach to artificial intelligence — releasing its training data, annotations, underlying code, model weights, and other data for researchers and developers to understand and use themselves. This contrasts with the proprietary approach from companies such as OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others. Ai2 graphic. Click to enlarge. Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi, speaking with reporters Tuesday at the nonprofit’s headquarters north of Lake Union in Seattle, said Molmo shows that open models can now rival proprietary alternatives on key performance benchmarks. While cautioning that he’s not a fan of these benchmarks, due to what he described as scientific flaws, Farhadi acknowledged that they are widely used in the industry, and he showed them to make a larger point. “Open and closed are getting very, very close together,” he said. Ai2 graphic. Click to enlarge. In addition, smaller models are performing on par with larger models. For example, a lightweight version of Molmo with 1 billion parameters performs as well as the 12 billion parameter Pixtral 12B model released last week by Mistral AI, the French AI startup in which Microsoft invested earlier this year. The smaller size is “a key enabler, because now you could start having these things run on your phone, on your wearables, on your desktop, on your laptop, and that just expands the footprint of what these models can do,” Farhadi said. Ai2 says its largest Molmo 72B model likewise compares favorably with OpenAI’s GPT-4V, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5, and Google’s Gemini 1.5. The unveiling of Molmo comes in advance of the Meta Connect conference on Wednesday, where the Facebook parent company is expected to show the latest version of its open-source Llama large-language model. A key differentiator with Molmo, Farhadi explained, is Ai2’s focus on high-quality, curated data. Rather than relying on large, noisy, web-crawled datasets, Momo was trained on a smaller but higher quality dataset, using careful human annotations. This improves the model’s accuracy and reliability. In demos at Ai2 this week, Lead Researcher Matt Deitke showed Molmo’s ability to identify seemingly every detail in a picture of the bustling entrance to Pike Place Market in Seattle, and to identify and count the number of dogs in a photo. Molmo was even able to count the number of dogs with their tongues out. Another notable (if symbolic) breakthrough: Molmo can tell time from a traditional clock face, something that other AI models have struggled to do. Molmo’s visual recognition capabilities also include the ability to read web pages, which creates the possibility for developers to use the model to create new forms of autonomous AI agents. An Ai2 highlight video (above) includes an AI agent that browses the Starbucks website and places a coffee order, for example. Ai2 CEO Ali Farhadi in his office earlier this year at the nonprofit’s Seattle HQ. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Ai2, founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, has been led for more than a year by Farhadi. He previously founded and led Ai2 spinout Xnor.ai as CEO, and sold it to Apple in 2020 in an estimated $200 million deal that represents one of the institute’s biggest commercial successes to date. Farhadi rejoined Ai2 in July 2023, after leading Apple’s machine learning initiatives. The institute released its Open Language Model, or OLMo, in February last year, part of a larger effort to bring more transparency to the rise of generative AI models. OLMo won Innovation of the Year at the 2024 GeekWire Awards. As a nonprofit AI research institute, Ai2 doesn’t focus on developing products of its own, but instead seeks AI breakthroughs that serve society, and offers its technology for others to use and learn from. However, with the Molmo demo site, Ai2 is taking a more public approach this time, seeking to bring new attention to the technology, to help serve its mission. “This is the first time we’re also putting a live demo out,” Farhadi said, acknowledging some angst. “We did the best we could to make sure that it’s safe, and it doesn’t do weird things. But with these kind of models, you never know what’s going to happen. This is an experiment for us to see and learn if this strategy works or not.”

CogniTech Solutions introduceert Refrigerator Challenge voor AI-evaluatie

Een nieuwe multimodale kunstmatige intelligentie model van het Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) werkt op innovatieve manieren met…

 Smartsheet went public in 2018. Now the company is going private again. (Smartsheet Photo) Smartsheet is allowed to solicit other potential acquirers after announcing a $8.4 billion buyout deal with Blackstone and Vista Equity Partners on Tuesday. But analysts say the existing offer is likely to make it through, according to reporting from Seeking Alpha. The all-cash acquisition will make Smartsheet a private company again, six years after the Bellevue, Wash.-based enterprise software company went public. The $8.4 billion purchase price ($56.50 per share) represents a premium of about 41% to the volume weighted average closing price of Smartsheet stock for the 90 trading days ending July 17, before a report from Reuters on the potential deal. The “go-shop” period to explore other deal offers ends Nov. 8. Analysts told Seeking Alpha that other tech giants — including Amazon, Google, Zoom, and Oracle — could make sense as buyers, as well as other private equity firms. But a larger offer is “unlikely to emerge,” according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal also noted that the deal could be a bellwether for other software buyouts. M&A activity has slowed in the past few years amid higher interest rates, creating “pent-up demand (and supply), particularly in the private equity universe,” according to a recent report from PwC. Blackstone recently gobbled up Seattle-based pet-sitting giant Rover in a $2.3 billion deal. Smartsheet revenue increased 17% to $276.4 million in its most recent quarter. The company’s operating loss was $8.5 million, vs. a loss of $36.1 million in the same period a year ago. Smartsheet’s revenue growth has slowed over the past four years, while its stock price has “gone nowhere for two years,” noted Martin Peers of The Information. “Smartsheet is a good example of the kind of software firm that’s most likely to sell — one that’s closely identified with a single product, whose growth is slowing, and that isn’t controlled by its founder,” Peers wrote. Smartsheet makes cloud-based enterprise work management technologies for managing and tracking projects, collaborating, storing data, and automating and assigning tasks, among other capabilities. It serves 85% of the Fortune 500 as customers. Its competitors include Airtable, Asana, Atlassian, ClickUp, Monday.com, Planview, and Wrike. Features of Google, Microsoft, and Adobe products also compete with Smartsheet’s capabilities. Smartsheet, which launched in 2005, has more than 3,300 employees. The company’s journey has not been entirely smooth sailing. Madrona managing director Matt McIlwain, whose firm was an early investor in Smartsheet, recalled how the company nearly ran out of cash in 2008 and didn’t hire a sales rep until 2011. “Early customers paid on average $500 per YEAR for a subscription and the company didn’t reach $10 million in revenue until 2012,” McIlwain, a board member at Smartsheet, wrote on LinkedIn. “Today the company is over $1 billion in revenue, generates substantial free cash flow and is the market leader in enterprise collaborative work management.”

Smartsheet verwacht weinig concurrentie voor overname van $8,4 miljard

Smartsheet heeft onlangs een overname van $8,4 miljard aangekondigd door Blackstone en Vista Equity Partners. Dit nieuws komt…
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