AI horizons: new frontiers and thoughtful considerations – February 2024
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by Daniele Grandini
3w ago
Welcome back to another month full of news and progress regarding artificial intelligence. From this month, I will try to bring more order to the news by organizing it into sections that I plan to keep unchanged in the upcoming issues. Top of the Month The sudden launch of OpenAI’s new Sora video generation model has been the most significant news of the month. It is a groundbreaking shift, according to all experts, both in the way video is produced and the authenticity of the content created. Demos generated by this model can be viewed on OpenAI’s website, which can currently produce videos u ..read more
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AI horizons: new frontiers and thoughtful considerations – January 2024
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by Daniele Grandini
2M ago
Welcome to our regular monthly update on artificial intelligence, a field that never ceases to amaze us. Let’s start with exciting news from OpenAI: the launch of the store for Custom GPTs, a significant step towards monetizing the platform. Additionally, OpenAI has introduced a new subscription plan that allows for the creation of shared team workspaces. OpenAI was particularly active in January, updating its models. For instance, GPT-3.5 Turbo saw a 50% reduction in input costs and a 25% reduction in output costs. Moreover, the flagship model, GPT-4 Turbo, received significant improvements ..read more
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AI horizons: new frontiers and thoughtful considerations – December 2023
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by Daniele Grandini
2M ago
Writing concisely about artificial intelligence is increasingly challenging. Synthesizing a month’s worth of overlapping and rapidly evolving news is a complex task. This month, I want to focus on three main events. Firstly, I’ve previously mentioned the European Union’s agreement on AI regulation. Set to take effect in 2024, with gradual implementation over the following two years, this timeframe is significant in the rapid evolution of AI technology. The central issue here is balancing innovation with the need for regulation. Europe faces a delicate balancing act, aiming to create an environ ..read more
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AI horizons: new frontiers and thoughtful considerations – November 2023
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by Daniele Grandini
3M ago
This has been another incredible month. I won’t get into the speculation regarding the OpenAI affair. A lot has been written, let’s just wait and see if it is just a compute war, a next generation training technique or both or maybe just a matter of money. In the meantime the landscape of artificial intelligence is evolving at a breakneck pace, with industry giants like OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google leading the charge. OpenAI first Developer Day did not disappoint. Here are the critical takeaways: The newly introduced GPT-4 Turbo has set a new benchmark for large language models (LLMs ..read more
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#Azure notable updates October 2023
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by Daniele Grandini
5M ago
The breaking news of October, at least for us in Italy, is the GA of the long awaited Italian region. Italy North is eventually available to deploy workloads into. Now to be honest I don’t expect a rush to the new region, based on customer provider and location we can probably get better latencies than west europe, but I think it’s nevertheless important to have a local region especially for Government and local administration. The second notable news, is a new project form the Azure Incubation team lead by Mark Russinovich, project Radius. Radius is a cloud-native application platform&nb ..read more
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AI Horizons: New Frontiers and Thoughtful Considerations – October 2023
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by Daniele Grandini
5M ago
AI investments are not finished and Anthropic is gaining a lot of attention, after the 4B$ investment by Amazon I reported in September post, in October Google added 500M$ with the promise to add 1.5B$ more. Since Anthropic tailors their product specifically for corporate and enterprise-level solutions this must come to no surprise. Currently Microsoft dominates this area and the last quarter report from the cloud business of Google testify that they’re facing difficulties, Amazon on the other hand, while strong on cloud still doesn’t have a tailored generative AI such as Azure OpenAI. Notably ..read more
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#Azure AI – Functions calling compared to plugins
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by Daniele Grandini
5M ago
The introduction of function calling in GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo presents a new method for developers to interact with these models, notably diverging from the previously established plugin system. I haven’t experimented with them yet, nevetheless I tried to gather some preliminary information and use cases. Usage Scope: Plugins: They are designed exclusively for the ChatGPT User Interface. Their primary use is to extend the functionality of the ChatGPT environment by integrating with external systems or providing additional features within the UI​1​. Function Calling: This feature is intende ..read more
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AI Horizons: New Frontiers and Thoughtful Considerations – September 2023
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by Daniele Grandini
5M ago
AI peak is not over yet, even if the stock market is not at its maximum, nevertheless the momentum is here to stay for a long time. The big news of the month is probably the fact that chatGPT cha now see, hear, and speak. ChatGPT now supports voice interaction, allowing users to have back-and-forth conversations with the assistant. This feature facilitates on-the-go interactions, such as requesting bedtime stories or settling dinner table debates. The voice capability is powered by a new text-to-speech model that can generate human-like audio from text and a few seconds of sample speech. Five ..read more
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AI Horizons: New Frontiers and Thoughtful Considerations – August 2023
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by Daniele Grandini
7M ago
As the Chief Innovation Officer, I have the distinct privilege of navigating the expansive realm of technological trends with a significant degree of autonomy. My perspective primarily centers around strategic business opportunities rather than intricate technological nuances. I’m excited to introduce a new series of posts, where we’ll delve deep into the realms of AI, Generative AI, and Artificial General Intelligence. Our goal? To understand their potential implications on our contemporary lifestyles and business methodologies. My journey with AI began in the early 2000s, sparked by personal ..read more
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#Azure notable updates August 2023
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by Daniele Grandini
7M ago
From this month I will keep two different installments. This one for monthly notable Azure updates and the another one enterily dedicated to AI that is now my primary business focus. This month has definitely been the mponth of Azure Container Applications, the fully managed Kubernetes based containers environment on Azure. Compared to AKS provides an higher level of abstraction on the container clusters and orchestration in spite of less portability between clouds. So let’s see what’s new for ACA: Azure Container Applications: Networking with mTLS Link: Networking with mTLS Product: Azure Co ..read more
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