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Capping two days of listening to from enterprise AI and knowledge executives and leaders throughout the VB Rework 2023 convention in San Francisco was the announcement of the winners of the fifth annual AI Innovation Awards. This 12 months’s convention and the awards had been centered on “Get Forward of the Generative AI Revolution.”
The awards acknowledged and awarded enterprise, modern, visionary and inclusivity initiatives in generative AI. The winners are within the following classes: Generative AI Innovator of the 12 months, Finest Enterprise Implementation of Generative AI, Most Promising Generative AI Startup, Generative AI Visionary, Generative AI Range & Inclusion and Generative AI Open Supply Contribution.
The nominees and winners had been drawn from our every day editorial protection and the experience, information and expertise of our nominating committee members.
Thanks to our nominating committee members for his or her steerage, insights and proposals:
Matei Zaharia, co-founder and CTO at Databricks
Tonya Custis, director of AI analysis, Autodesk
Di Mayze, world head of knowledge and AI, WPP
Prem Natarajan, Chief Scientist, Head of Enterprise AI at Capital One
Kalyan Veeramachaneni, principal analysis scientist at MIT School of Computing
And the winners are:
Generative AI Innovator of the 12 months
This award goes to the corporate that has pushed the boundaries of generative AI the furthest up to now 12 months and demonstrated essentially the most modern use of the expertise.
Our winner is OpenAI . Open AI has been growing among the most influential generative AI fashions, corresponding to GPT-3, GPT-4, ChatGPT Plus, DALL-E, Whisper and InstructGPT. These fashions can generate sensible and inventive textual content, pictures, audio, and video from pure language prompts. OpenAI has additionally launched a few of these fashions and their code to the general public, in addition to offering APIs and playgrounds for accessing and experimenting with them. OpenAI has additionally contributed to advancing the sphere of generative AI by its publications, patents, and collaborations. The corporate has demonstrated its innovation and impression in utilizing generative AI for varied purposes, corresponding to conversational brokers, content material creation, schooling, leisure and social good.
Finest Enterprise Implementation of Generative AI
This award will spotlight the highest enterprise firm that has applied generative AI expertise in a really transformative means.
Our winner is Salesforce. For implementing generative AI expertise in a really transformative means. Salesforce’s expertise has been deployed to unravel key enterprise challenges, enhance productiveness, improve buyer experiences and achieve a aggressive benefit within the CRM market. Salesforce’s expertise has demonstrated a excessive stage of innovation, uniqueness, and impression within the enterprise area.
Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI, stated the corporate was honored to be acknowledged because the winner.
“Salesforce’s industry-leading generative AI merchandise, together with AI Cloud and Einstein GPT Belief Layer, are empowering each group to faucet into the productiveness and effectivity advantages of AI with its open ecosystem strategy and real-time knowledge capabilities, all whereas guaranteeing belief stays on the heart,” Shih stated.
Most Promising Generative AI Startup
This award will go to essentially the most promising startup that has developed an modern generative AI software and demonstrated excessive progress potential.
Our winner is Typeface for constructing a platform that mixes generative AI with a model’s tone, audiences, and workflows to provide on-brand textual content and picture content material for varied channels and functions. Typeface has demonstrated excessive progress potential and a powerful go-to-market technique, attracting Fortune 500 clients and elevating $165 million in funding. Typeface has additionally partnered with main corporations corresponding to Salesforce and Google Cloud to combine its platform with their options. The corporate has proven its potential to leverage generative AI to unravel key enterprise challenges, enhance productiveness, improve buyer experiences and achieve a aggressive benefit within the content material creation market.
Typeface CEO and founder Abhay Parasnis stated the corporate was honored to be chosen because the winner for the award alongside different modern AI corporations.
“Typeface is empowering each enterprise to supercharge customized content material creation, and we’re happy with VentureBeat’s recognition of the momentum that we’ve encompassed thus far in bringing modern options for enterprise generative AI,” Parasnis stated.
Generative AI Visionary
This award will go to a person who has made vital contributions to the sphere of generative AI by their thought management, analysis, or work constructing foundational applied sciences.
Our winner is CEO and cofounder of Nvidia Jensen Huang for driving Nvidia’s innovation and progress within the generative AI house, in addition to being a vocal advocate for the moral and accountable use of generative AI. Huang has led Nvidia to launch a number of groundbreaking generative AI platforms, corresponding to Omniverse, a digital surroundings that permits customers to create, simulate and collaborate utilizing generative AI.
Generative AI Range & Inclusion
This award will acknowledge the corporate, group or person that has achieved essentially the most to advertise variety and inclusion within the generative AI discipline. This might embody advancing AI ethics, making AI applied sciences extra accessible, offering alternatives and assist for underrepresented teams, or utilizing AI in a means that reduces bias and promotes social justice.
Our winner is Renee Cummings for doing essentially the most to advertise variety and inclusion within the generative AI discipline. is the primary knowledge activist-in-residence on the College of Virginia’s Faculty of Knowledge Science the place was named professor of apply in knowledge science. She can also be an AI ethicist, criminologist, Columbia College group scholar and founding father of City AI. Cummings has been utilizing generative AI in a means that reduces bias and promotes social justice by creating options for vital points corresponding to prison justice and policing. Cummings has additionally been empowering underrepresented teams within the AI discipline, corresponding to ladies and folks of coloration, by offering mentorship, instructing and advocacy. Cummings has demonstrated a powerful dedication to utilizing generative AI for good and advancing civil rights.
“Generative AI is a world remodeling expertise. For that transformation to be moral and equitable and for Generative AI to really capitalize on its extraordinary capabilities it should be developed with a heighten consciousness that celebrates variety, fairness and inclusion,” Cummings stated. “Generative AI should even be deployed with a rights-based understanding that acknowledges the actual time dangers corresponding to bias, discrimination, and trauma, and threats to privateness, security, safety, sustainability, in addition to an understanding of the social duty of expertise to protect and defend due course of and future-proof democracy, justice and the alternatives for communities to create thriving and resilient legacies.”
Generative AI Open Supply Contribution
This award highlights the particular person, group or firm that has made essentially the most vital contribution to open supply instruments, datasets, or different sources to assist advance generative AI.
Our winner is Hugging Face for making essentially the most vital contribution to open supply instruments, datasets, or different sources to assist advance generative AI. Hugging Face has created a complete and user-friendly ecosystem for generative AI improvement and collaboration, with instruments corresponding to Transformers, Datasets, Tokenizers and Areas. Hugging Face has additionally fostered a vibrant and numerous group of generative AI lovers by its Hub platform.
Congratulations to our winners and nominees.