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Hello, friends, we're back to a news-packed week in artificial intelligence and financial services, and we're covering at least a little bit of all of it. You'll find some coverage of the glut of new models launched in our AI Intelligence column, and a specific example of the convergence of financial artificial intelligence in an industry brief from Feathery. Speaking of convergence, this week's Looking Back column asks if we're already experiencing a "singularity" event. In its introduction, our AI & Finance column memorializes Cindy and Bill Taylor, our bosses and founders who were more like friends than anything else: we are so thankful we had the opportunity to have known them, let alone work alongside them. We didn't stop there, it was a huge week for AI venture capital activity, and AI Education goes deep to discuss geospatial AI and its precursor technologies. We hope you'll enjoy an especially dense newsletter this week... CHECK IT ALL OUT BELOW!
If we're going to write about financial artificial intelligence, we'd better have a vision for the future. But that's not enough. We also need some deep knowledge both of technology and of the financial services industry. We need to be able to write-even in the era of generative AI. Most of all, we need to have at least some passion and affection for three industries, simultaneously: publishing, finance and technology, because this is where they all collide. Bill and Cindy Taylor, who co-founded this newsletter, had all of these things. Welcome to AI & Finance, where we are once again running down... CONTINUE HERE
What are the three biggest factors to a successful real estate investment? Location, location and... location. Welcome to AI Education where we're going to be talking about how artificial intelligence mixes with location data to produce what has been deems geospatial artificial intelligence, or GeoAI for short. But before we even get there, we're going to need to talk about how location has played a role in the technology leading to GeoAI, more specifically, in the realms of what is called geospatial intelligence and in geographic information systems, which will explain why this particular combination of data and technology is so potent. Location... CONTINUE HERE
This week our overall AI venture capital activity accelerated once again from recent weeks, with all five of our listed announcements coming in over $500 million and 12 announcements total coming in over $100 million. The biggest announcement, per FinSMEs, came from Sydney, Australia-based AI factory provider Firmus, which raised a $2 billion round to "accelerate the next phase of its Project Southgate AI Factory rollout across Australia and lay the groundwork for expansion into other key Asia-Pacific markets," according to its announcement. Our second-place announcement was also from the AI factory space, where Los Angeles-based Hadrian raised $1.37 billion to "accelerate its... CONTINUE HERE
Artificial intelligence's extraordinary capital requirements, intensifying model competition and mounting security challenges dominated the news cycle this week. Nvidia unveiled a potentially enormous financing mechanism for AI infrastructure, Databricks raised another multibillion-dollar round, and Google and Meta pushed new models into an increasingly crowded market. At the same time, OpenAI and Anthropic confronted the less glamorous consequences of increasingly capable systems: cybersecurity risks, agent behavior, provenance and government scrutiny. Taken together, the week's developments suggested that AI is moving beyond a race to build the smartest model and into a much broader contest over financing, infrastructure, enterprise distribution, security and control. Nvidia made... CONTINUE HERE
Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle fell asleep the denizen of a British colony and woke up 20-years later as an American. One day, we're going to wake up and find that our technology has surpassed our cognitive and creative abilities, and that day might not be far off. In fact, some people say it is happening now, while a small minority of others say it has already happened. For years, artificial general intelligence, artificial superintelligence and the technological singularity occupied a peculiar position in artificial intelligence: important enough for computer scientists and futurists to debate, but distant enough that executives could safely leave... CONTINUE HERE
Building a detailed proposal for every client can take hours - and require information from multiple systems - but for clients who want advice that feels personal, and for their advisors who want to deliver it, the answer might be AI. Feathery announced on Tuesday that it has launched AI-Powered Proposal Generation for wealth management firms. The new solution uses client data, planning documents, advisor expertise and firm- approved templates to create personalized proposals at scale. The system pulls information from platforms including Salesforce, eMoney, Vanilla, Holistiplan, Addepar and Morningstar. Feathery's AI assistant, Robin, uses that information to draft a proposal tailored to each client's... CONTINUE HERE
Source: thefinancials.com | Updated every 30 minutes, M-F during market hours
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