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Microsoft targets AI skills gap with new training program and grant challenge

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Microsoft says its related Generative AI Skills Grant Challenge will support nonprofit, social enterprise, and academic or research institutions that use generative AI for social and economic good. The company declined to disclose the expected size of the grants or the amount of its investment in the programs.

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Microsoft’s latest OpenAI investment opens way to new enterprise services

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OpenAI has landed billions of dollars more funding from Microsoft to continue its development of generative artificial intelligence tools such as Dall-E 2 and ChatGPT. And as an investor it can expect some return on its capital, although this will be limited by OpenAI’s status as a capped-profit company governed by a nonprofit.

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Tech Moves: Convoy vet joins Xembly; Seattle climate firm hires Goldman Sachs exec; and more

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Xembly Photo) — Ziad Ismail is now chief operating officer of Xembly , a Seattle startup that offers an artificial intelligence “chief of staff” designed to automate tedious tasks such as meeting notes, scheduling, to-do lists and more. She was previously vice president of policy and programs at the Washington, D.C.

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From Critigen to Locana: Location intelligence company rebrands to reflect growing market

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Thanks to a flood of satellite data and the rise of artificial intelligence tools, the market for location intelligence services is growing — and one of the pioneers in the field is changing its name from Critigen to Locana to reflect that growth. So is artificial intelligence. Locana Photo).

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The ‘Great Retraining’: IT upskills for the future

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The latest piece in her reinvention story is Synchrony’s new Tech Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence, a full-time, 12-month program that balances on-the-job learning with instructor-led training, providing Chavarin with a pathway into one of the most coveted technology spaces despite her very nontraditional IT background.

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Google’s ‘Gemini’ bridges the AI divide, but artificial general intelligence remains elusive

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Instead, it was built from the ground up across different modalities, combining billions of parameters representing text, images, video, audio, and programming code. AI2, a nonprofit research institute based in Seattle, is at the forefront of exploring and advancing AI since its founding in 2014.

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Allen Institute for AI takes over Vulcan’s portfolio of environmental big-data projects

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Skylight is a maritime monitoring program that will be transferred from Vulcan Inc. to the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. the diversified holding company that Allen created, to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (a.k.a. MMCC Zone F Photo). Maybe,” he said.

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