Plus: Andrej Karpathy, a Tesla alum and OpenAI co-founder, joins Anthropic. And Mach Industries has acquired rocket-maker Exquadrum for $50 million. Imani Moise hosts.
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[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_02] Many companies are struggling to scale their AI deployments or even move them past the pilot stage. Often the problem isn't technology, but organizational misalignment around goals, processes and incentives. At the break, join Caroline Roach, senior partner IBM Consulting, to learn why.
[00:00:16] [SPEAKER_00] Here's your afternoon TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, May 19th. I'm Imani Moise for The Wall Street Journal. Google has announced Gemini Spark, a personal AI agent it says is capable of navigating a user's digital life and acting on his or her behalf. The tech firm has started rolling out the agent and says it'll be available next week to subscribers who pay for AI Ultra, a new subscription tier that costs $100 a month.
[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_00] The tech giant said its Gemini app now has 900 million users, up from 400 million last year. Google also introduced Gemini Omni, a tool designed to create videos from text, audio and images. News Corp, the owner of The Wall Street Journal, has a commercial agreement to supply content on Google platforms. OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla executive Andre Karpathy has joined Anthropic. He will lead a new group focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research,
[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_00] which oversees the data training process for the company's AI models. Until 2022, Karpathy led a team at Tesla overseeing the functionality of its advanced driver assistance system, Autopilot. According to his LinkedIn profile, he was also a founding research scientist at OpenAI until 2017. News Corp, the owner of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI.
[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_00] And we exclusively report that drone startup Mach Industries acquired rocket maker Xquadrum in April for $50 million in cash and equity. The previously unreported deal gives Mach access to more than two decades of technical developments used for super-fast weapons that reach beyond Earth's atmosphere. The acquisition reflects a broader shift in the defense sector, as analysts say Pentagon officials and venture capital firms are increasingly warming up to startups.
[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_00] And that's your TNB Tech Minute. Check back in the morning for another quick tech update.
[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_02] Scaling AI successfully requires more than the right technology. Here again is Caroline Roach, senior partner, IBM Consulting.
[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_01] The biggest thing that we were talking about a year ago is what model to use. And the biggest thing that I'm talking about with my clients now is how do I drive change within my organization.
[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_02] Companies able to identify, correct, and then avoid misalignment will be best positioned to deliver meaningful business value from AI.
[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_01] The organizations that are the most successful set very clear targets and have several priorities that are very clear across the enterprise. The technology is really good, but if you're not changing your organizational alignment, not incentivizing your people correctly, not looking at workflows, you're not going to see real value with it.
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