Genai news and trends

Alibaba Cloud Launches Compact, Multimodal AI Model
artificial intelligence // March 26, 2025

Alibaba Cloud has launched a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model that can process inputs in the form of text, images, audio and video, and can generate real-time responses in the form of text and natural speech. The new Qwen2.5-Omni-7B can be deployed on mobile phones and...

Google Debuts Touted Gemini 2.5 in the ‘Winner-Take-All’ AI Model Race
Artificial Intelligence // March 26, 2025

Google unveiled its most powerful generative artificial intelligence model yet, one that opens a new front in the competitive AI race as it performs mostly head-and-shoulders above its staunchest rivals in industry benchmarks. Gemini 2.5, the latest from Google’s family of generative AI models with...

Three Macro Trends in GenAI for Financial Services
artificial intelligence // March 26, 2025

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and agentic models are revolutionizing financial services, transforming user experience, fraud detection, payments innovation and compliance processes, according to John Kain, head of financial services market development at Amazon Web Services (AWS). “AI has been such an integral part of how...

Paid Raises $10.8 Million to Scale Financial Infrastructure for AI Agents
Artificial Intelligence // March 25, 2025

Paid announced its launch and said it raised 10 million euros (about $10.8 million) to scale its financial infrastructure that helps the builders of artificial intelligence agents get paid. The company’s solution enables builders to use billing methods designed specifically for AI agents, rather than...

Interviews & Exclusives
Sweatin’ to the Chatbot: Echelon Targets Consumers With Hyper-Personalized Fitness

March 25, 2025
Echelon Fitness is rolling out a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) assistant for the users of its fitness equipment that adds a unique personalization capability: You can “talk” to a chatbot to make changes to your custom workout plan. See too many 45-minute workouts in the schedule? Audibly tell the AI to swap those out with […]

AI Gives Customer Service Positive Revenue Spin

March 24, 2025
Enterprises are expanding their use of artificial intelligence (AI) in customer experience to encompass the entirety of the process, not just relegating it to back-office tasks. In addition to speeding...

Better Standards Outshine Flashier Tech as Winning GenAI Recipe for Procurement

March 24, 2025
Few innovations throughout history have moved beyond the theoretical into tangible, real-world applications faster than generative AI (GenAI). It’s even happening across enterprise operations. No matter their industry, organizations are...

Inside Goldman Sachs’ Big Bet on AI at Scale

March 20, 2025
Goldman Sachs is aggressively scaling AI for increased productivity and efficiency. They’re implementing their own AI platform, partnering with tech companies, and focusing on security, with a key component being...

Quick Reads
Alibaba Cloud Launches Compact, Multimodal AI Model

March 26, 2025
Alibaba Cloud has launched a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model that can process inputs in the form of text, images, audio and video, and can generate real-time responses in the form of text and natural speech. The new Qwen2.5-Omni-7B can be deployed on mobile phones and laptops, the company said in an article posted on Alibaba’s news […]

Paid Raises $10.8 Million to Scale Financial Infrastructure for AI Agents

March 25, 2025
Paid announced its launch and said it raised 10 million euros (about $10.8 million) to scale its financial infrastructure that helps the builders of artificial intelligence agents get paid. The...

OpenAI Adds New Image Generation Capabilities to GPT-4o

March 25, 2025
OpenAI has added new image generation capabilities that are native to GPT-4o, saying the model can now produce precise and photorealistic images. “GPT-4o image generation excels at accurately rendering text,...

HoneyBook Debuts AI Business Management Tools to Help SMBs

March 25, 2025
HoneyBook, a business platform for service-based entrepreneurs, introduced artificial intelligence-powered business management tools. “While AI solutions have largely been built for enterprises or consumers, independent entrepreneurs have been left with...