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Introducing the Alinia AI Alignment Platform. From their announcement: "Alinia AI enables companies to evaluate the performance of their GenAI applications and obtain evidence on how aligned these are to their values, policies, and business preferences. Following the performance assessment, Alinia AI recommends the best next actions to further guide and control LLM output and improve alignment."

📣 Big news from Alinia AI! We are launching out of stealth today with a $2.4M pre-seed round. The round was led by Speedinvest and Precursor Ventures with participation from Kfund and some of the most renowned figures in the space, including Oriol Vinyals, Clem Delangue & Thomas Wolf, Xavier (Xavi) Amatriain, Tom Preston-Werner and Miguel Martinez. This group of investors brings deep expertise in enterprise SaaS, AI products, and cutting-edge R&D in generative AI. We are incredibly grateful for their support, expertise, and passion for building safer generative AI deployments. Check out our announcement below and be on the lookout for more updates! https://lnkd.in/dHt2Ta2g #OutofStealth #AliniaAI #ResponsibleAI #AISafety #AIAlignment #Alignment  #RiskMitigation #AIEthics #ValueAlignment #HumanValues #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIEvaluation #AIGovernance #AIRegulation #EUAIAct  #AICompliance #NYCTechWeek

DynamoFL elevates your AI game with hyper-personalized solutions for maximum effectiveness. The startup offers regulation-compliant AI to minimize data leakage risks, ensuring companies stay ahead of evolving regulations. Learn more about DynamoFL today ⬇️

🚀 Exciting news from San Francisco's tech scene! Meet Ema, the 'Universal AI Employee,' stepping out of stealth mode with a whopping $25M in Generative AI funding. Ema isn't just another AI venture; it's here to revolutionize how we work. CEO Surojit Chatterjee aims to automate mundane tasks, freeing up time for strategic endeavors. With an impressive list of investors and clients like Envoy Global and TrueLayer onboard, Ema's Generative Workflow Engine and EmaFusion are set to redefine productivity. What sets Ema apart? It's not just about robotic process automation or AI acceleration; it's about tapping into 30+ large language models, ensuring accuracy, data protection, and more. Backed by industry heavyweights and led by veterans from Coinbase and Google, Ema promises to be a game-changer. Stay tuned as Ema reshapes the future of work! 💼🔥 #AI #TechInnovation #FutureOfWork https://lnkd.in/gmmAMpBX Ingrid Lunden TechCrunch

We are thrilled to announce that Serviceful (https://lnkd.in/dFR5X9NA) has chosen DataTrails to build verifiable data provenance and transparency into their AI solution. Serviceful emphasizes data safety and security for their customers and has taken steps to support responsible AI regulatory requirements.   Serviceful is taking AI responsibility to new heights starting with governance-focused use cases where verifiable data lineage and integrity are needed to continuously prove AI agents are safe, secure and trustworthy.    "As a next-generation AI startup, building "responsible AI" is mission critical for us. DataTrails' technology helps us win consumer trust and navigate the rapidly evolving regulatory climate with confidence."  -- Bhanu Agarwal, CEO, Serviceful

Discover the Future of AI: OctoAI's Game-Changing Move in the LLM Arena! 🚀 🔥Breaking News in AI: Mixtral's collaboration with OctoAI is setting new benchmarks! Why is the tech world buzzing about it? Let's dive in. 💡 The Challenge: OpenAI has been a pioneer, but as LLM-powered apps skyrocket in popularity, innovators are seeking more. Why? The road to a successful AI-driven business is paved with high inference costs and limitations of closed-sourced models. 🚀 Enter OctoAI: Offering the fastest, most cost-effective solution to run Mixtral 8x7B. It's not just about speed; it's about efficiency and accessibility. 💼 Business Impact: Imagine slashing your costs by 12 times and boosting speed by 30% compared to GPT-4-Turbo. That's the reality with OctoAI. For startups and established businesses alike, this means unparalleled growth opportunities without the hefty investment. 👩💻 Seamless Transition: The best part? Switching to OctoAI is a breeze. Their API format mirrors OpenAI's, ensuring minimal engineering effort. It's about making your life easier, not harder. 📈 Proven Results: Customers making the switch are witnessing comparable quality with significant savings and lower latency. It's a win-win. 🎁 Exclusive Offer: Ready to experience the revolution? Try OctoAI Text Generation and get a $10 credit on signup. It's time to transform your AI strategy! Embrace the new era of AI with OctoAI and Mixtral. Share your thoughts below and let's discuss the future of AI! #OctoAI #Mixtral #AIInnovation #TechTrends #BusinessGrowth

🚀 Exciting Developments in GenAI! 🚀 At Fisent, we've been deeply engaged with GenAI for approximately a year now, witnessing remarkable advancements in technology every step of the way. Reflecting on our journey, it's incredible to note the rapid pace of progress, with significant breakthroughs occurring every few months. Let's rewind to November 12th, 2023, a milestone moment celebrating innovation in GenAI. We were all introduced to OpenAI GPT4-Turbo, marking a significant leap forward in AI capabilities. Fast forward to February 15th, 2024, just 95 days later, and we're already witnessing two major updates that have propelled us into a new realm of possibility: 🌟 OpenAI Sora - "text to video" functionality, where a simple prompt can now be transformed into a fully realized video. This represents a monumental leap in complexity, with Sora seamlessly orchestrating thousands of interacting objects in real-time, simulating reality like never before. 🌟 Google Gemini 1.5 - The latest iteration of this powerful Large Language Model (LLM) boasts an astounding increase in capacity of 1 million tokens per session. This means unprecedented capabilities in processing unstructured content, with Gemini 1.5 capable of handling the equivalent of 700 pages of text or 60-minutes of video in a single session. (for context a year ago we were at 8K, then 16K token limits) But why does this matter? Here's why: 1️⃣ The pace of advancement in GenAI's compute power and accuracy is accelerating at an astonishing rate, with limitations today becoming obsolete by the time most organizations actually embark on their GenAI journey. 2️⃣ Multi-modality advancements are revolutionizing how companies like Fisent digitize and process diverse forms of content rapidly, accurately, and cost-effectively. If you're still waiting for the right moment to initiate your organization's GenAI journey, please get going! Those who act decisively are positioned to unlock unprecedented efficiency, new capabilities, and a significant competitive advantage! As always, we're here to support you every step of the way on your GenAI journey. Reach out to us, and let's embrace this exciting era of innovation together! 💡 #GenAI #Innovation #FutureTech #AIJourney

Check out this great piece by The Wall Street Journal on Mistral AI! At FinTech Law Firm, we're excited to be using their latest open-weight model Mixtral 8x7B to build our legaltech. Mixtral is a high-quality sparse mixture of experts (SMoE) model with open weights, licensed under Apache 2.0. According to Mistral, Mixtral outperforms Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks with 6x faster inference. It's also the strongest open-weight model with a permissive license and has the best cost/performance trade-offs. In fact, it matches or outperforms GPT3.5 on most standard benchmarks. We love Mistral's commitment to transparency and building efficient, open-source models for the benefit of society, not just Big Tech. Check out the link below to read more about this 9-month-old AI startup led by 31-year-old CEO Arthur Mensch, and how they're challenging the giants of Silicon Valley. #AI #legaltech #transparency #opensourcesoftware https://lnkd.in/gr6etPAE

AI Startup Ema Wants to Create a 'Universal Employee' "...The San Francisco company, just out of stealth mode, combines many AI models into its "Enterprise Machine Assistant" and promises it will be productive while avoiding the hallucinations that affect other AIs..." #aiadvancements #aiassistant #universalemployee #hallucinations Inc. Magazine _____________________________________________________ If you want to immediately see new content that I curate 👉🏻 Ring my bell (🔔) and follow #informationbanker or if you want to get the posts that got noticed in my weekly What’d I miss newsletter, subscribe here: "https://lnkd.in/d5_KvWwu"

We’ve spent much of this year at Gitwit in the weeds of AI — giving presentations, creating AI-focused content, and most importantly building new products and exploring new GTM approaches. While we’ve been running hard and fast at AI opportunities, we also wanted to ask ourselves critically why and how Gitwit wins in the new AI-enabled future. In a way that has defined much of how we solve problems, we wanted to step back and draft some thoughts on the opportunity and where we fit. It was a thought exercise designed to frame the moment not through the lens of a cheap strategy framework, but through an essay that explored the AI topic. It is not meant to be a mission, vision, or a strategy, but rather a catalyst for us to think about the future from a blank page. We did this originally as an internal exercise for our team only, but after the fact I think it’s worth sharing. Read our ‘AI Manifesto’ — at the very least I hope it gives you a new frame for how to think of the excitement and inevitable change that lies ahead. https://lnkd.in/g7u5UsgS