The AI Files

In this episode, we talked with Scott Bounds, a Sr Director of Data & AI at Microsoft. His deep experience in the industry of Media & Sports, comes out as rich insights about the industry embracing AI at a rapid speed.

In this episode, we cover Zuckerberg-Elk joint piece in The Economist, AI start up Empower for auto fine-tuning, multiple launches of image generation tools like Imagine 3 and Ideogram, new NeMo pruned model, Phi3.5 launch and Text-To-Speech Avatars from Azure as well as how AI is transforming enterprise functions.

In this episode, we covered a number of news & announcements related to Grok 2, Azure self-serve PTUs, AI Risks & Regulation, Prompt Caching and Walmart using AI etc. Show Notes MIT researchers release a repository of AI risks | TechCrunch The AI Risk Repository: A Comprehensive Meta-Review, Database, and Taxonomy of Risks From Artificial Intelligence (website-files.com) AI Risk Repository (mit.edu) (20) lmsys.org on X: "Exciting Update from Chatbot Arena! The latest @OpenAI ChatGPT-4o (20240808) API has been tested under "anonymous-chatbot" for the past week with over 11,000 community votes. OpenAI has now successfully re-claimed the #1 position, surpassing Google's Gemini-1.5-Pro-Exp with an https://t.co/gxCDuBOi9N" / X Models - OpenAI API Prompt caching with Claude \ Anthropic California AI Bill Heads to State Assembly — The Information Elevate your AI deployments more efficiently with new deployment and cost management solutions for Azure OpenAI Service including self-service Provisioned | Microsoft Azure Blog Grok-2 Beta Release (x.ai) Azure OpenAI Provisioned August 2024 Update - Azure OpenAI | Microsoft Learn

This week, we're diving deep into the latest power shifts at OpenAI, exploring what these executive changes mean for the future of AI. We also cover Amazon's impressive new Titan Image Generator v2 and the introduction of Figure 02, the humanoid robot pushing the boundaries of AI-driven robotics. Plus, we discuss the growing momentum in AI regulation, with new legislation on deepfakes taking center stage. Tune in to stay ahead of the curve in AI innovation and policy!

In this episode, we will cover AI related news as well as announcements like Gemma 2, GitHub Models, Meta AI Studio and Graph RAG etc. We also covered an AI case study demonstrating real world gains and how AI is used for good.

In this episode, we are hosting Stephen Kaufman, AI Architect at Microsoft, to discuss LLMOps, an important discipline to manage the life cycle of LLMs in an organization. LLMs is like DevOps/MLOps but focused on GenAI applications and models.

In this episode, we have discussed LLAMA3.1, Mistral Large 2, Generative search, Search GPT, Prompt report etc as well as comparing between MaaS and hosting of open source models

In this episode, we will talk about and demo GPT-4o Mini as well as bunch of other news & launches around Multi-modal AI, regulations, and content credentials initiatives etc NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics (nbcnews.com) Microsoft and Apple back away from OpenAI board (artificialintelligence-news.com) Woman uses artificial intelligence to speak after brain surgery damaged voice (nbcnews.com) Biden-Harris Administration Announces Key AI Actions 180 Days Following President Biden’s Landmark Executive Order | The White House https://time.com/6978195/ilya-sutskever-leaves-open-ai/ NYT v. OpenAI: The Times’s About-Face - Harvard Law Review Watch the AI-produced film Toys"R"Us made using OpenAI's Sora – and get misty about the AI return of Geoffrey the Giraffe (msn.com) OpenAI Has Talked to Broadcom About Developing New AI Chip — The Information GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence | OpenAI Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 | OpenAI Gemini 1.5 Pro updates, 1.5 Flash debut and 2 new Gemma models (blog.google)

AI Agents are the future, driving intelligent automation to transforming user experience and increasing efficiencies. In this episode, Simon Lacasse, AI Global Blackbelt at Microsoft discusses the AI Agents, their evolution, future, patterns, examples and how to get started.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic is amazing and breaks new grounds. Let's talk about it and also compare it against GPT4-o to get more clarity for a decision making. Apple Intelligence is a different take on portraying AI, less technically and more in human experience terms. Let's also cover a few other news related to AI that matter. Check the show notes here: https://time.com/6978195/ilya-sutskever-leaves-open-ai/ NYT v. OpenAI: The Times’s About-Face - Harvard Law Review Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept | TechCrunch Introducing Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Apple Apple Intelligence in 5 minutes (youtube.com) Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet \ Anthropic Anthropic New Claude 3.5 Sonnet – How it compares to ChatGPT's GPT-4o (youtube.com)

Use of generative AI has nearly doubled in the last six months, with 75% of global knowledge workers utilizing it, according to the Microsoft WTI report. Scaling through adoption, skilling and responsible deployment is the next frontier in the enterprises. Honored to have Matthew Fish join us and enlighten us on the 'State of AI' in the corporate world with his amazing breadth of insights. Matt is GM and leader of Data & AI in Northeast at Microsoft. Check out our next episode on this topic and subscribe, share & provide feedback!

This episode is part 2 of "Everything you wanted to know about LLMs" with Simon Lacasse who is a Global Blackbelt expert in AI at Microsoft. He covers several intriguing details of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. Don't miss it and also check out part 1 in episode 6 if you have not done so already

Packed episode covering several of announcements made at Microsoft Build as well as Khanmigo, Codestral release and a couple of interesting AI use cases.

Large Language Models or LLMs are the engines that powers generative AI and this wave of AI revolution. They work, interact and create differently than previous narrow models. GPT, Gemini, Titans, DBRX, Claude, Mistral, Llama etc are all LLMs. In this episode we dive deep into LLMs with simplified overview as well as all the major aspects of LLMs. We are pleased to have Simon Lacasse as our first guest ever. Simon is a brilliant AI expert at Microsoft and has tried to break it down for us in simple terms. Dont miss it!

In this episode, we will cover the most consequential launch of GPT-4o in AI since the GPT-4. Its a technology marvel and pathbreaking. Google also had a similar launch in Gemini and project Astra. Snowflake launched their own Arctic LLM. We also cover an abstract of remarkable vision that Mustafa Suleyman (CEO of Microsoft AI) shared at TEDx last month. 'What is an AI anyway?' TED speech by Mustafa Suleyman https://www.ted.com/talks/mustafa_suleyman_what_is_an_ai_anyway Hello GPT-4o | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ Introducing GPT-4o and more tools to ChatGPT free users | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-and-more-tools-to-chatgpt-free/ Introducing GPT-4o: OpenAI’s new flagship multimodal model now in preview on Azure | Microsoft Azure Blog https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-gpt-4o-openais-new-flagship-multimodal-model-now-in-preview-on-azure/ Introducing Snowflake Arctic in Azure AI model catalog - Microsoft Community Hub https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-machine-learning-blog/introducing-snowflake-arctic-in-azure-ai-model-catalog/ba-p/4121556 Snowflake Arctic - LLM for Enterprise AI https://www.snowflake.com/blog/arctic-open-efficient-foundation-language-models-snowflake/ Arctic - Snowflake-Built Enterprise LLMs https://www.snowflake.com/en/data-cloud/arctic/ Google I/O 2024 (io.google) https://io.google/2024/explore/?q=ai Google I/O 2024: 100 things Google announced (blog.google) https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-io-2024-100-announcements/ Google I/O '24 in under 10 minutes (youtube.com) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsEQjeZoEng Google I/O 2024: Everything Revealed in 12 Minutes (youtube.com) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE89NysJEUY

Episode 4 covering Phi-3, Bedrock Studio, Data monetization etc

Exciting AI developments every week. In this episode we cover AI news roundup between 8th April 2024 and 21st April 2024. We talk about VASA-1, LLAMA-3 and all electric humanoid robot Atlas. Show notes: Microsoft Learn - best resource for learning about Microsoft products & services https://learn.microsoft.com/ New paper showcasing video creation based on a single static image and an audio sample, by Microsoft Research. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/resea...

This episode discusses newly launched LLMs DBRX and Grok1.5. Also, covers Microsoft Copilot and IDC study on Business Value of AI. Don't forget to watch the fun trivia segment. DBRX - LLM from Databricks https://www.databricks.com/blog/intro... Grok 1 - LLM from xAI https://x.ai/blog/grok-os Business value of AI - IDC study https://news.microsoft.com/source/wp-...

The first episode covering various AI developments and news with perspectives. Show notes: Apple’s AI/LLM Joint Ventures? • How Apple’s Embrace Of Gemini AI Could Transform The iPhone And Google (forbes.com) https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidphe... • Apple's iPhone AI Talks With Google and OpenAI Still Ongoing - MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/21/... • Apple Publishes Details About New 'MM1' AI Model - MacRumors https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/18/... • [2403.09611] MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training (arxiv.org) https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09611 Nvidia Conference Announcements • ‘We Created a Processor for the Generative AI Era,’ NVIDIA CEO Says | NVIDIA Blog https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2024-gt... • Microsoft and NVIDIA announce major integrations to accelerate generative AI for enterprises everywhere - Stories https://news.microsoft.com/2024/03/18... Msft Consumer AI Division • Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind and Inflection Co-founder, joins Microsoft to lead Copilot - The Official Microsoft Blog https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024... Reddit – Data Licensing for AI • Reddit says it’s made $203M so far licensing its data | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/22/red... Other links for further reading The History of Artificial Intelligence - Science in the News (harvard.edu) https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/20... The brief history of artificial intelligence: The world has changed fast – what might be next? - Our World in Data https://ourworldindata.org/brief-hist... Claude 3 Opus vs GPT-4 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro AI Models Tested | Beebom https://beebom.com/claude-3-opus-vs-g... Delivering Copilot for everyone - The Official Microsoft Blog (102) Microsoft Game Day Commercial | Copilot: Your everyday AI companion - YouTube https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024...

The launch of the channel, the genesis of 'The AI Files'. Why is AI real this time? Why do we need this channel?