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You may have noticed artificial intelligence researchers have a gift for coming up with new acronyms seemingly every week. We’re sorry to inform you of another one you need to remember: RAG, which stands for retrieval augmented generation.It’s a method to help AI software such as chatbots answer questions about information they’ve never seen before. It could be the key to solving pesky issues such as chatbot software’s occasional habit of spitting out wildly wrong answers—dubbed hallucinations in the indust
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) чаще всего рассматривается в контексте вопросно-ответных систем и чат-ботов поверх базы знаний. Большинство публикаций и руководств по RAG посвящено схеме «вопрос – ответ с опорой на документы». Однако внутренняя механика RAG – семантический поиск в сочетании с генерацией ответа на основе найденного – хорошо ложится и на другую задачу, которую традиционно решают иными методами: на рекомендации.Цель настоящей статьи – показать, что RAG представляет собой недоиспользованны Read more ›
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If you’ve wanted to visit the South of France, this might be the week. The annual Cannes Lion ad festival, a time for ad folks from all quarters to gather, gets underway tomorrow. The impact of AI on advertising and media is sure to be front and center. OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, is scheduled to appear onstage twice, according to the official program, including on a panel with... Read more ›
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Data center software startup and AI-server broker Hydra Host has raised $100 million at a valuation of close to $800 million, led by Kindred Ventures. Nvidia, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest, early CoreWeave backer Magnetar, and existing investors Founders Fund and Flume Ventures also participated. ... Read more ›
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The Murdoch family’s Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion in cash and stock, or $160 a share, giving Roku shareholders an exit at the highest price at which the stock has traded since the 2020-2022 Covid-fueled surge. In recent years Roku has traded mostly below $100 a share. Roku, which sells ... Read more ›
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When Broadcom last week announced a funding venture with Apollo and Blackstone to pay for a gigawatt of computing capacity to be used by Anthropic, it looked like the latest in a series of AI computing deals funded by private equity. Behind the scenes, however, the deal represents a risky move by Broadcom to boost demand for its chips. While the announcement didn’t spell out Broadcom’s role, the company—which works... Read more ›
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Salesforce has agreed to buy Fin, a startup that develops customer agents formerly known as Intercom, for $3.6 billion, as the software giant hopes to win new businesses from enterprises to adopt its own AI offering. The sale price is a big premium to Fin’s last valuation of $2 billion set at a ... Read more ›
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Anthropic can’t catch a break! Leaders of the AI firm are meeting with Trump administration officials in D.C. this week to try to resolve a dispute that blew up on Friday night. The administration said that it would need to cut off access to its most advanced Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 models to foreign nationals, which led to the company taking down the models altogether. Then, on... Read more ›
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A Washington, D.C.-based Anthropic customer filed a class action lawsuit against Anthropic Sunday night alleging that the company had misled customers about the value of its premium “Max 5x” and “Max 20x” subscription plans. The lawsuit alleges that Anthropic markets its Max 20x plan, which ... Read more ›
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Nvidia said Monday it plans to raise new debt even as the AI chip leader keeps generating tens of billions of dollars in cash every quarter. It will be the company’s first corporate bond sale since 2021, when it raised $5 billion. Bloomberg earlier reported that Nvidia would sell more than $20 ... Read more ›
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Qualcomm has been in talks to buy Tenstorrent, a startup that designs chips for AI, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The two companies have discussed a price between at least $8 billion and $10 billion, the person said, which would be a significant premium to Tenstorrent’s last valuation. It’s not clear if the price would include payments tied to performance milestones, as has been the... Read more ›
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