The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) on Thursday released a highly anticipated open-source large language model, along with the underlying data and code meant to significantly improve understanding of how… Read More
“The biggest surprise is that AI used to be narrow. … And when you went from one application to the other, you had to redo it all from scratch. What’s… Read More
In the past year, generative AI has taken the world by storm. The pace of advancement has been little short of astounding, with OpenAI — and its partnership with Microsoft… Read More
— Nicole Ford joined Nordstrom as chief information security officer. Ford previously served as vice president and CISO at Rockwell Automation, with past experience leading security transformation initiatives and developing cybersecurity… Read More
A group of “LLM hipsters” are behind a new AI startup in Seattle emerging from stealth mode and aiming to rethink how retail companies engage with customers. Spiffy incorporated a… Read More
A new feature from Seattle startup Yoodli uses artificial intelligence to help startup founders prepare to pitch their businesses to venture capitalists and other investors — including the ability to… Read More
Don’t worry, this article will be short enough to not create a time-consuming task for readers looking to absorb its key points. Researchers don’t always have that luxury when they’re… Read More
Geospatial data analysis promises to revolutionize the way agriculture, urban planning and disaster relief is done — and thanks to a variety of projects that make use of artificial intelligence,… Read More
Artificial intelligence is becoming more deeply embedded in our world, enabling all sorts of new possibilities — but also raising new risks and dangers as well. Data privacy, embedded biases,… Read More
Ali Farhadi, a computer vision specialist and startup founder who most recently led Apple’s machine learning initiatives, will rejoin the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) as the second… Read More
You can’t read the news today without seeing a story about the latest advances in artificial intelligence, particularly in the nascent area of generative AI and large language models (LLMs).… Read More
The Seattle-based AI2 Incubator raised a fresh $30 million pre-seed fund to invest in more “AI-first” startups. The incubator’s second fund comes at a key moment for the AI sector,… Read More
Our world is a nuanced and complex place, best experienced through the mixed modalities of our senses. Given this, AI researchers have also started applying multimodal strategies to create in-context… Read More
“Extremely impressive.” “Incredibly rich.” “Super exciting.” That’s how tech leaders are describing ChatGPT, the new conversational chatbot model released last week by OpenAI. The bot builds on existing GPT natural… Read More
A new startup out of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) Incubator raised $4 million to reduce alarms from devices attached to patients in the ICU. CalmWave went from… Read More
A new startup, Consensus, is partnering with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) to help make the information in research studies accessible to the general public. Consensus is part… Read More
Augment AI wants to be your AI-powered sidekick. The Seattle startup, which spun out of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), emerged from stealth mode Tuesday and opened a private beta. The… Read More
Someone once famously said that “video killed the radio star.” Forty-one years after that song helped ironically launch MTV, the question in 2022 is, what will artificial intelligence do for… Read More
The news: Unwrap, an AI-powered natural language processor that aggregates and analyzes user feedback, raised $3 million after going through the incubator program at Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI (AI2).… Read More
Oren Etzioni, the founding CEO of Seattle’s Allen Institute for AI, is stepping down from the artificial intelligence research organization he helped launch nearly nine years ago. A renowned expert… Read More
Are you a prolific note taker looking for a new app to help manage all that information? Well, take note … and a new spinout from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for… Read More
After holding the GeekWire Awards virtually for the past two years, there was a feeling of real catharsis Thursday evening as hundreds of people streamed through the doors of the… Read More
Six months after coming out of stealth mode, a Seattle AI startup called Yoodli is raising the curtain on a free website that’s designed to improve your public speaking. And… Read More
As a key figure in the PC revolution, late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen understood the power of new technologies to create world-changing companies. Later in life, Allen saw the same… Read More
Once again, Seattle’s tech scene provides the backdrop for a high-profile movie on HBO Max — but this time, it’s serious. Oscar-winning film director Steven Soderbergh’s tech-noir thriller, “Kimi,” echoes… Read More
The news: A group of experienced entrepreneurs and technologists have teamed up to lead a new Seattle startup that aims to “supercharge your productivity.” The details: Augment AI Corp is… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Is the world relying too much on Amazon Web Services? We take stock of the fallout from the big AWS outage (which was the… Read More
Can artificial intelligence write its own programs? Is there AI in your TV remote control? Researchers at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence say that knowing the right answers to… Read More
The news: WhyLabs, a spinout from the Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), raised $10 million and released a new tool to support machine learning applications. The problem: As more… Read More
— Bellevue, Wash.-based identify authentication software company Auth0 named former Glassdoor CTO Bhawna Singh as SVP of engineering. She will be responsible for Auth0’s various platforms and oversee the software engineering,… Read More
