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Jan 10, 2025 | 
emerald.com | Gregory Shea |Gad Allon
To read this content please select one of the options below: Please note you do not have access to teaching notes (Management Department, Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) (Jerome Fishman Program in Management and Technology, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) Keywords Leadership Strategy Organizational change Organizational culture Citation Shea, G.P. and...
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
directorsandboards.com | Gregory Shea
Key considerations when ensuring a successful transition from one CEO to another. A Decrease font size. A Reset font size. A Increase font size. Succession dominates the current news feeds. The news currently focuses on political succession, but many of the issues exist in senior-level leadership succession generally. I have played a major role in more than half-a-dozen CEO transitions and had a ringside seat for half-a-dozen more.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
directorsandboards.com | Gregory Shea
Harrowing news keeps washing over us, as individuals and as organizations. One side effect, small in the grand scheme of things perhaps but of potentially considerable importance to your organization, comes down to how leadership should respond. Counsel abounds regarding public declarations concerning external events.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
Facebook parent Meta celebrated 10 years of its FAIR AI lab by unveiling Seamless, a family of language models for translating in real-time. The family of models are built atop SeamlessM4T v2, the latest version of the foundational model released last August. They’re designed to power cross-lingual communication in real time while retaining expressive elements of speech, such as tone, pauses and emphasis.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
At a GlanceGetty and Runway team up to offer custom video generation for enterprises using AI. Stock image giant Getty is teaming up with generative AI startup Runway to offer enterprise customers video generation services. The partners are launching a new video model trained on Getty Images’ library of content. The model, dubbed RGM, will act as a baseline for enterprise customers to create custom systems to generate content.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
At a GlanceThe companies have formed the new AI Alliance to support open and responsible AI development. Some of the biggest names in AI have launched a group aimed at supporting the open innovation of safe AI systems. Dubbed the AI Alliance, the group wants to foster an open community that’ll enable developers to research AI responsibly. IBM and Meta co-launched the AI Alliance, with some 40 organizations from industry, government and academic pledging support.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
Google DeepMind has developed an AI agent system that can learn tasks from a human instructor. After enough time, the AI agent can not only imitate the actions of the human instructor but also recall the observed behavior. In a paper published in Nature, researchers outline a process called cultural transmission to train the AI model without using any pre-collected human data.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Deborah Yao |Sascha Brodsky |Ben Wodecki |Gregory Shea
Facebook parent Meta has unveiled its latest audio generation AI model called Audiobox that lets users turn text into sound. Simply describe what you want to hear and the text-to-audio model will turn it into the sound you requested. The successor to its Voicebox audio generation model, Audiobox takes prompts in natural language. For example, you can type ‘a beaver munching on a slice of pineapple’ or ‘a young woman talking inside a church’ and the model will generate the desired sound.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
aibusiness.com | Ben Wodecki |Deborah Yao |Gregory Shea |Seth Dobrin
Every week, AI Business brings you the latest startup news. Keep up-to-date by subscribing to the AI Business newsletter to get content straight to your inbox and listen to interviews with AI experts from Fortune 500 companies on the AI Business Podcast on Apple iTunes and Spotify. Conflict of interest? OpenAI to buy chips from Rain AIOpenAI has a $51 million deal in place to purchase AI chips from a startup that CEO Sam Altman has personally invested in, according to Wired.
