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UAE’s AI Minister Omar Al Olama emphasised the indispensability of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on society. “If anyone, whether it's in the UAE or another country says we're going to stop or not allow you to use these tools, how will it impact your quality of life? It's going to have a detrimental impact on your quality of life. This is the fact of the matter. That's why countries like India, for example, went down the non-conventional path of creating its own platforms, which I think is very smart and really the way that many countries of that size need to go. In that sense, AI is driving the economy. AI is impacting society. And AI is today the technology that is enabling people to go into the 21st century in the right way. Governing it the right way, regulating it the right way and developing certain forms of the right way is really the only way to go." On AI regulation, Olama expressed his scepticism saying, “Calls for regulation of AI are non-starter...

Achieving the EY Entrepreneur of the Year UK award is like grabbing the golden ticket in the world of business. This year, the title of EY Entrepreneur of the Year UK  2023 was awarded to the serial entrepreneur Sachin Dev Duggal for his innovative approach in the field of AI-driven app composable software platform. It's not just an award; it's an accomplishment of entrepreneurial dreams. Sachin Dev Duggal is pushing the boundaries of the perception since the beginning of his journey that creating software or an app is too difficult and only for a select few with coding skills, restricting creativity and preventing digital ideas from ever getting started.   Firstly, this award is a serious spotlight. Picture this: your name echoing in the corridors of the business elite. Winning this award tosses you into the limelight, making you the talk of the entrepreneurial town. It's a chance to shine, and who doesn't want their moment in the sun? Beyond the glory, there's a...

Biotech and AI startup Cradle is finding success with its generative approach to protein design, landing big customers and a hefty $24 million of new investment. The company exited stealth a little over a year ago, just as the hype around large language models was really heating up. Many AI companies in biotech train models to natively understand molecular structure; Cradle’s insight was that the long sequences of amino acids that make up the proteins in our bodies are akin to “like an alien programming language.” It may not be possible for a person to learn that language, but an AI model could — and a person could work with that instead. While they still couldn’t just say “make a protein that does this,” they could ask which of 100 interesting proteins looks most likely to survive at room temperature or an acidic environment. The approach seems to have caught the eye of major drug development companies like Johnson & Johnson and Novozymes. Creating a useful and functional protein ...

QIA also known as Qatar Investment Authority in its expanded form, has invested a significant fund of $250 million in a Series D funding round in the British-Indian serial entrepreneur Sachin Dev Duggal ’s Builder.ai.    Sachin Duggal is the founder and CEO of Builder.ai, also known as Chief Wizard of Builder.ai, a human-assisted AI platform that makes building and running software as easy as ordering pizza. In 2012, he started Builder.ai to enable anyone to build or construct any concept, without the requirement for coding knowledge and without wasting time, money, and resources.   New or existing investors such as Iconiq Capital, Jungle Ventures, and Insight Partners also participated in the round. The latest round has marked a 1.8x valuation for the company. However, in March 2022 the company was able to raise $100 million in Series C funding. The valuation has not yet been disclosed by the company. The flow of capital will in a way help the company to boost investmen...

In a surprising move, OpenAI today abruptly fired Sam Altman, its CEO and a member of its board of directors, and installed CTO Mira Murati as interim CEO. But who, exactly, is Mira Murati? Murati, who has a degree in mechanical engineering from Dartmouth College, previously worked as an intern at Goldman Sachs and then at Zodiac Aerospace, the French aerospace group. She spent three years at Tesla as a senior product manager of the Model X, the automaker’s crossover SUV, during which Tesla released early versions of Autopilot, its AI-enabled driver-assistance software. In 2016, Murati joined Leap Motion, a startup building hand- and finger-tracking motion sensors for PCs, as VP of product and engineering. Murati wanted to make the experience of interacting with a computer “as intuitive as playing with a ball,” she told Fast Company in an interview. But she soon realized that the tech, which relied on a VR headset, was too early. In 2018, Murati came to OpenAI as VP of applied AI and p...

Cozy game, interior decorating app, learn-to-code primer or something in between, the interactive, 3D spaces builder known as Rooms has made its way to the App Store. The startup, which earlier raised $10 million in seed funding led by a16z, offers a way to design 3D spaces — its “rooms” — that are filled with furniture, décor, pets and tiny avatars. You can turn those rooms into mini-games, if you prefer. The purpose of Rooms is merely to create and explore design, which is something many people find relaxing. However this “digital equivalent of LEGO,” as the company has described it, also has an educational aspect to it. First launched on the web earlier this year, the project was inspired by co-founder Jason Toff’s work in Google’s AR/VR division, including its now-shuttered VR and AR app-building service Poly and the 3D modeling tool for VR, Blocks. His co-founder Bruno Oliveira also worked with him at Google, while co-founder Nick Kruge’s background includes time at Smule, Uber an...

The mobile app development industry is just one of the many sectors that artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized user experience and stimulated innovation through breakthroughs in machine learning and deep learning algorithms. Here we’ll examine AI's prospects in mobile app development, as well as its possible uses and possible effects on the sector.   When it comes to AI Sachin Dev Duggal ’s Builder.ai is a prominent name. The company primarily develops mobile apps which are powered by AI and are customizable. With the aid of AI and human assistance, it builds apps for an individual to an enterprise at a cost-effective price. The company believes in making technology easy for everyone, even for a person with less or no technical knowledge.   Mobile apps with AI capabilities can provide individualized experiences by analyzing user behavior, preferences, and patterns. Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms enab...

Microsoft, through a strategic partnership, has invested an undisclosed sum into Builder.ai, a start-up that primarily develops applications with no code technology. It helps companies make applications without any coding experience, doubling down on its artificial intelligence efforts. Sachin Dev Duggal , founder and CEO of Builder.ai believes that the future of technology is going to a place where the customer doesn’t need to be technical. He thinks that technology should be that simple even people with no or less technical knowledge can utilize it.    Builder.ai, a 2016 startup with its headquarters in London, belongs to the group of companies that create platforms with supposedly "no-code" and "low-code" requirements. With the help of its platform, anyone can create and maintain apps, from tech-averse artists wishing to sell their creations online to design experts with little to no programming background. “Technology should not just confine with people with abu...

 Like “Avengers” director Joe Russo, I’m becoming increasingly convinced that fully AI-generated movies and TV shows will be possible within our lifetimes. A host of AI unveilings over the past few months, in particular OpenAI’s ultra-realistic-sounding text-to-speech engine, have given glimpses into this brave new frontier. But Meta’s announcement today put our AI-generated content future into especially sharp relief — for me at least. Meta his morning debuted Emu Video, an evolution of the tech giant’s image generation tool, Emu. Given a caption (e.g. “A dog running across a grassy knoll”), image or a photo paired with a description, Emu Video can generate a four-second animated clip. Emu Video’s clips can be edited with a complementary AI model called Emu Edit, which was also announced today. Users can describe the modifications they want to make to Emu Edit in natural language — e.g. “the same clip, but in slow motion” — and see the changes reflected in a newly generated video....

Divisions over how to set rules for applying artificial intelligence are complicating talks between European Union lawmakers trying to secure a political deal on draft legislation in the next few weeks, as we reported earlier this week. Key among the contested issues is how the law should approach upstream AI model makers. French startup Mistral AI has found itself at the center of this debate after it was reported to be leading a lobbying charge to row back on a European Parliament’s proposal pushing for a tiered approach to regulating generative AI. What to do about so-called foundational models — or the (typically general purpose and/or generative) base models that app developers can tap into to build out automation software for specific use-cases — has turned into a major bone of contention for the EU’s AI Act. The Commission originally proposed the risk-based framework for regulating applications of artificial intelligence back in April 2021. And while that first draft didn’t have...

Builder.ai, an AI-Powered platform for composable software which was founded by serial entrepreneur Sachin Dev Duggal to make it simple and affordable for average people and businesses to turn their ideas into software, has announced a Series D financial commitment of more than $250 million.     Over $450 million has been raised in Series D funding for Builder.ai, an AI-powered platform for modular software. The fund will be utilized to conduct research and development for Natasha, the company's AI Product Manager, and the platform's comprehensible app/software platform. Natasha manages duties like feature mapping and asking teams that interact with customers questions. Natasha's beta version was released in September 2021. The world's first AI-powered product manager, Builder Studio 3.0 from Builder.ai, intends to democratize software development. According to Sachin Dev Duggal , Chief Wizard and Founder of Builder.ai, the company intends to offer its customers a full...

Today at Microsoft Ignite 2023, the company renamed Bing Chat, the AI-powered chatbot it launched on Bing earlier this year, to Copilot in Bing. Meanwhile, the premium, corporate-focused version of Bing Chat, which was previously called Bing Chat Enterprise, has also been rebranded to Copilot. Why the name changes? Not to cause confusion, Microsoft swears — despite the fact that the company now has roughly a dozen products that share the Copilot brand. “Renaming ‘Bing Chat Enterprise’ to ‘Copilot’ reflects our vision to create a unified Copilot experience for consumer and commercial customers,” Caitlin Roulston, director of communications at Microsoft, told TechCrunch via email. That makes sense. But it could be, also, that Bing Chat didn’t move the needle much for Bing — and so Microsoft’s looking to divorce the tech from the search engine that launched it. An August report from StatCounter found that Bing failed to take any market share from Google six months after Bing Chat launched...

Alongside a bevy of creator updates, Instagram is adding a new feature that will allow users to create custom stickers for their Reels and Stories using AI. Driven by Meta’s Segment Anything AI model, the stickers can be created by uploading your own photos or videos from your phone’s Camera Roll, or choosing from eligible photos and videos on Instagram. The AI model lets you “cut out” any object within an image with a click, which is similar to the image cutout feature that debuted with Apple’s launch of iOS 16. In iMessage, Apple also allows you to make your own stickers — like a sticker of your favorite pet — by touching and holding on the subject of the photo which then lifts it away from the background. Meta’s custom Instagram stickers work much in the same way. When you point the app to a given piece of media, it will automatically highlight the photo’s subject for you. But if the AI gets it wrong or you want to tweak the sticker a bit, you can also choose to select the sticker’s...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a game-changer in the rapidly changing world of technology, particularly in the field of mobile app development. Sachin Dev Duggal , the chief wizard of Builder.ai has a promising platform for app development that can help anyone build an app for their business with no coding knowledge. This proves that Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing mobile app development, enabling more intelligent, user-friendly, and customized experiences. In this blog, we’ll examine the use of AI in app development as it exists now and make predictions about its potential growth in the future. AI-Powered Mobile Apps Development 1. Using Virtual Assistants and Chatbots to Simplify Development Chatbots and virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence are automating consumer interactions during app development just like Sachin Dev Duggal ’s brainchild Builder.ai which has an AI product manager who helped tech-shy people build apps. They help in getting user input, enhanci...

For years, any time someone asked which brand of headphones they should buy for a flight, the answer was a simple one syllable: Bose. The company’s QuietComfort line had long been synonymous with drowning out plane noise on long flights. But over the last several years, the question has become an increasingly difficult one, as companies like Apple and Sony have shot to the top of the category. Back in mid-September, the company planted its flag in the sand once again. The well-loved QuietComfort line was getting a shakeup, with three new entries: the $299 QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds, $349 QuietComfort Headphones and the $429 QuietComfort Ultra headphones. The latter (which, as the headline suggests, is our focus today) replaces the $379 (now $279) Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones 700. As naming conventions go, it’s certainly simpler and more streamlined. At least you know where the QuietComfort Ultra Headphones stand relative to the QuietComfort Headphones (they’re, you know, more ultra...

 Joby Aviation and Volocopter gave the public a vivid glimpse of what the future of aviation might look like this weekend, with both companies performing brief demonstration flights of their electric aircraft in New York City. The demonstration flights were conducted during a press conference on Sunday, during which New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city would electrify two of the three heliports located in Manhattan — Downtown Manhattan Heliport and East 34th Street. (The third heliport is privately owned.) Beta Technologies, which is also developing an electric aircraft, showed off its interoperable aircraft charging technology at the event. The move is a huge win for so-called “electric vertical take-off and landing” (eVTOL) developers, who will likely need hefty public investment in order to get their commercial air taxi service off the ground by the middle of the decade. Some of this investment has already started to materialize: in September, Joby announced th...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a game-changer in the rapidly changing world of technology, particularly in the field of mobile app development. Sachin Dev Duggal , the chief wizard of Builder.ai has a promising platform for app development that can help anyone build an app for their business with no coding knowledge. This proves that Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing mobile app development, enabling more intelligent, user-friendly, and customized experiences. In this blog, we’ll examine the use of AI in app development as it exists now and make predictions about its potential growth in the future.  AI-Powered Mobile Apps Development  1. Using Virtual Assistants and Chatbots to Simplify Development  Chatbots and virtual assistants powered by artificial intelligence are automating consumer interactions during app development just like Sachin Dev Duggal ’s brainchild Builder.ai which has an AI product manager who helped tech-shy people build apps.  They help in gett...

Healthcare delivery is being revolutionized by two quickly developing industries: artificial intelligence (AI) and digital healthcare. AI technology is predicted to significantly affect digital healthcare as it develops. Here we will discuss the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital healthcare, as well as their current uses and potential future effects on healthcare delivery.   Digital healthcare and AI technologies are already being utilized for several purposes, such as:    AI-powered solutions can assist doctors and other healthcare professionals in managing electronic health records (EHRs) more effectively, cutting down on the amount of time needed for manual data entry and enhancing decision-making. Sachin Dev Duggal ’s whose company Buider.ai primarily develops apps that are AI-driven and are customized, considers AI technology as a boon for the healthcare system, as it enhances the existing healthcare system such as CT-Scan, MICR, and others.  ...

 With its great potential in a wide range of industries, artificial intelligence (AI) is now being used by researchers to help diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Communication, social interaction, and behavior are all impacted by ASD, a complex neurodevelopmental disorder. The lack of a conclusive medical test makes diagnosing autism difficult, but new research has demonstrated that applying AI algorithms to assist in the diagnosis process can yield encouraging results.   Popularly known for developing a customized app that is AI-powered, Sachin Dev Duggal ’s Builder.ai also builds apps related to health, which are ready to use. The company views the application of AI in research and development and disease detection as a comprehensive approach, with a focus on human welfare.   Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to diagnose autism through research. The researchers created an AI algorithm that could correctly classify the data ...

OpenAI launched a slew of new APIs during its first-ever developer day. DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s text-to-image model, is now available via an API after first coming to ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Similar to the previous version of DALL-E (e.g. DALL-E 2), the API incorporates built-in moderation to help protect against misuse, OpenAI says. The DALL-E 3 API offers different format and quality options and resolutions ranging from 1024×1024 to 1792×1024, with prices starting at $0.04 per generated image. But it’s somewhat limited compared to the DALL-E 2 API — at least at present. Unlike the DALL-E 2 API, the DALL-E 3 can’t be used to create edited versions of images by having the model replace some areas of a pre-existing image or create variations of an existing image. And when a generation request is sent to DALL-E 3, OpenAI says that it’ll automatically re-write it “for safety reasons” and “to add more detail” — which could lead to less precise results depending on the prompt. Elsewhere, OpenAI’s...

ChatGPT now has 100 million weekly active users, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced on Monday at the company’s first developer conference in San Francisco. The service released nearly a year ago and garnered an estimated 100 million monthly users within just two months of launching and set a record for fastest-growing user base. Altman also shared today that over two million developers use the platform, including more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. The company revealed the new milestones as it shared a series of new announcements. OpenAI unveiled GPT-4 Turbo, which is a “more powerful” and less expensive version of its flagship text-generating AI model, GPT-4. OpenAI also announced GPTs, a way for anyone to build their own version of the conversational AI system. The company will soon also give users the ability to publish their own versions of the system on a marketplace called the “GPT Store,” and possibly earn some money by doing so. In addition, the company announced that DALL-E 3...

Microsoft has made a sizeable investment in Sachin Dev Duggal ’s Builder.ai, a cutting-edge platform that enables organizations to create custom software quickly and effectively, in a move that has broad implications for the IT industry. With the help of two leading business figures, this alliance represents a significant step in the direction of boosting AI innovation. This partnership aims to usher in a new era of agility and efficiency by fusing Builder.ai's revolutionary approach to software development with Microsoft's extensive expertise in cloud services, AI technology, and developer tools. Builder.ai founded by Sachin Duggal has skills that definitely be enhanced with the addition of Microsoft's resources, catapulting AI-driven innovation to the fore of the market. Finally, Microsoft's strategic investment in Builder.ai of Sachin Dev Duggal is a key step toward speeding AI innovation and reshaping the future of software development. The combination of Builder.a...

 If there’s one area where most engineering teams are not making the most of AI, it’s team management. Figuring out how to better manage engineers is often approached like more of an art than a science. Over the decades, engineering management has undoubtedly become more agile and data-driven, with automated data gathering improving performance. But in the past few months, the evolution of AI — specifically, predictive AI — has thrown management processes into a new era. Predictive AI analyzes data to foresee possible future patterns and behaviors. It can automatically set goals based on real-time data, generate recommendations for improving teams’ performance, and process far more information than was possible before. I want to encourage all other engineering management and intelligence platforms to start using AI, so we can collectively move into a new era. No business wants to lose profits or market share because of bad management. We now have the data and the technology to turn...

Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics functionality created in collaboration with 33 research institutes. The researchers involved compared the system to ImageNet, the landmark database founded in 2009 that is now home to more than 14 million images. “Just as ImageNet propelled computer vision research, we believe Open X-Embodiment can do the same to advance robotics,” researchers Quan Vuong and Pannag Sanketi noted at the time. “Building a dataset of diverse robot demonstrations is the key step to training a generalist model that can control many different types of robots, follow diverse instructions, perform basic reasoning about complex tasks and generalize effectively.” At the time of its announcement, Open X-Embodiment contained 500+ skills and 150,000 tasks gathered from 22 robot embodiments. Not quite ImageNet numbers, but it’s a good start. DeepMind then trained its RT-1-X model on the data and used it to train robots in ot...