Madison McLauchlan
Freelance Content Writer at Postmedia Network Inc.
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3 days ago |
betakit.com | Madison McLauchlan |Madison Mclauchlan
The chorus of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers and scientists pressing for a measured approach to the technology’s development clashed with the urgent tone of tech companies scrambling to keep pace with its rapid advancement at the World Summit AI in Montréal. “Understand [AI agents] as a leap of faith, as the way to go.
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1 week ago |
betakit.com | Madison McLauchlan |Madison Mclauchlan
Canadian AI godfather Yoshua Bengio says that if companies succeed in creating superintelligent AI agents without solving for self-preservation, it could carry “catastrophic” risks. Bengio, founder of the Montréal-based AI research institute Mila, made the remarks over Zoom as part of his closing keynote address to the World Summit AI conference in Montréal.
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1 week ago |
betakit.com | Madison McLauchlan |Madison Mclauchlan
Three American tech companies and one Toronto-based company are expanding their Montréal offices to enhance their French-language product offerings and draw from the city’s “intellectual firepower.” “We’re looking for people who want to work at a fast-growing company, who are customer-centric and want to get stuff done.” Giovanni Iacovino Alexa Translations The United States (US)-based firms—Terzo, SafelyYou, and Ampliwork—and Toronto-based Alexa Translations are looking to hire for 220 roles...
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1 week ago |
betakit.com | Madison McLauchlan |Madison Mclauchlan
Cohere has released a new embedding model that it says offers superior search and retrieval functions for AI agents. Seventy-two percent of early AI adopters expect autonomous agents to take over some tasks from their employees by the end of 2025. Embedding models turn complex information, such as text or images, into vectors or numbers that AI models can process. In other words, they encode meaning for large language models (LLMs).
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1 week ago |
betakit.com | Madison McLauchlan |Madison Mclauchlan
Toronto-based Xaba has secured $6 million USD ($8 million CAD) to improve the capabilities of industrial manufacturing robots with its custom reinforcement learning programming system. The all-equity, all-primary financing was led by Hitachi Ventures with participation from Hazelview Ventures, the Crown corporation BDC Capital, Exposition Ventures, and Impact Venture Capital. The seed extension, which closed at the end of last year, brings Xaba’s total funds raised to $8 million USD.
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