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When you consider the resources required to train, run, and oversee generative AI tools, you have to ask whether the rewards justify the consequences. While in theory it is possible to use smart machinery to get things done, at what point is doing so actually...

Perplexity AI, a generative AI search engine startup, has raised $73.6 million in new funding from investors including Nvidia, Databricks, and Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos.The deal values the company at $520 million and is one of the largest amounts raised...

Apple's pricey Vision Pro augmented reality platform is expected to arrive in the first quarter of 2024. But by the end of the year, I predict the platform of the year will be — drum roll, please — AI glasses!Wait, what?That's right. Glasses that let you interact with...

OpenAI’s long-planned customized AI marketplace will debut next week, according to an email the company sent today to some GPT users.The GPT Store, as OpenAI calls it, will serve as a repository for custom GPTs, which can be created using OpenAI’s builder...

CES is coming, and if the past is any guide, Apple won't be part of the festivities. And yet, as is often the case, its presence will be felt across the exhibition floor.Why? Because while generative AI (gen AI) might this year appear in everything (for good or ill),...

Welcome to the futuristic-sounding year of 2024 — that time of year when people set New Year’s resolutions and get started on them.If you subscribe to our Cool Tools newsletter at The Intelligence, you’ve seen me talking about something smaller and stronger than...

When it comes to modern technology, every second counts.It may sound silly, but it's true: A second is the difference between an interaction on your phone feeling instantaneous and feeling just a touch too slow. And particularly with how frequently we tend to repeat...

It’s time to face the fact that the days of proprietary, platform-dependent software and services are over. They had to end. Macs, iPhones, and Windows systems coexist in today’s enterprise, which means IT decision-makers need software and services that work across...

If there's one thing I always remember these days, it's that my malleable mammal memory sure ain't what it used to be.As (I think) I've said plenty of times before, my brain stopped storing new stuff somewhere around 2014. These days, I rely on a complex system of...

Google Docs offers a few dozen templates you can use to get a jump-start on document creation, but maybe you’ve looked through them without finding any that meet your specific needs. No problem: you can build one from scratch.This could be ideal if you want to design...

Enterprises spent about $19.4 billion worldwide on generative artificial intelligence (genAI) technologies in 2023 — and that amount is expected to double this year, according to research by IDC.Organizations are spending on genAI software as well as related...

With almost 1 billion generative AI (genAI) equipped smartphones set to ship between now and 2027, according to Counterpoint, it's increasingly likely that Apple will be in the mix with edge-based Apple GPT inside its phones.The company has been slammed for seeming to...