Jon Swartz

1 week ago | digitalcxo.com | Jon Swartz

There are artificial intelligence (AI) models, and then they are AI fashion models. In a fashion trend of sorts, H&M, one of the world’s largest clothing retailers, is the latest industry icon to announce it’s working with models and their agencies to create digital twins of 30 models this year to be used in AI-generated images for social-media posts and marketing campaigns. The models will own rights to their twins.

1 week ago | techstrong.ai | Jon Swartz

OpenAI is in the early stages of building an X-like social media network, an internal prototype centered on ChatGPT’s image generation. The social feed would either be integrated into ChatGPT or be available as a separate app, and likely put OpenAI on a collision course with nemesis Elon Musk’s xAI as well as Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc., The Verge reported. The appeal of a social app is obvious to OpenAI: It would give the company its own unique, real-time data to help train AI models.

2 weeks ago | techstrong.ai | Jon Swartz

OpenAI countersued Elon Musk on Wednesday, claiming the world’s richest man is waging a “relentless campaign” to damage it after he unceremoniously left the ChatGPT maker several years ago. “Musk could not tolerate seeing such success for an enterprise he had abandoned and declared doomed,” the generative artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer said in a filing in North California’s federal court.

2 weeks ago | techstrong.ai | Jon Swartz

Samsung Electronics’ much-ballyhooed home robot, Ballie, is finally coming home after years of sneak-peeks, teases and revisions. The South Korean behemoth and Google Cloud said Wednesday that the cute rolling bot will bounce into the U.S. this summer, part of an expanded partnership to bring GCP’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to Ballie.

2 weeks ago | techstrong.ai | Jon Swartz

Executives worldwide are all-in on artificial intelligence (AI). An eye-popping 91% said they are actively ramping up AI adoption and use, and 74% believe it is critical to their company’s success, according to a Globalization Partners (G-P) annual AI at Work report, released Tuesday. Even more astounding: Only 1% of execs said they are not using AI at all. “AI is no longer just an experimental technology.