6 "Essential" Enterprise AI News Items for Week of May 19-23
Google drops a ton of new AI products; You can't have HR without AI; AI discovers new knowledge for eye disorder.
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Our team of AI Analysts rated 6 articles as “Essential” from last week for AI Leaders on our our daily, live AI news show.
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Bain: You Can’t Spell AI without HR: The Surprising Secret to Scale
Rating rationale: Bain reveals how HR—not IT—is the linchpin of scalable AI adoption, thanks to training, policies, and capability-building. We agree.
Rating rationale: Google announced many AI updates including Gemini Ultra, Deep Think mode, Veo 3, Imagine 4, and AI Mode for Search. These reflect a broad strategic shift in integrating GenAI across its ecosystem. AI Mode and Veo 3 are particularly notable and AI leaders need to aware of both. Google clearly has found its “GenAI” legs in the last 6 months and is backing it up.
OpenAI’s New Acquisition Windsurf Released SWE‑1: Its First Frontier Models
Rating rationale: AI innovation in software coding remains on a tear. AI leaders need to monitor the trends here as this wave of innovation is coming other departments. Windsurf’s SWE‑1 automates the full software development flow—from editor to CLI to staging.
Rating rationale: Apodia Group fine-tuned Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct model to extract visual information from financial documents, addressing a major challenge in banking. Our analysts emphasized the depth and clarity of this case study and the significance of applying domain-specific fine-tuning for unstructured data extraction, calling it a standout example of generative AI in finance.
ROBIN: A Multi-Agent System for Automating Scientific Discovery
Rating rationale: ROBIN autonomously handles literature reviews, hypothesis generation, and experimental design with multiple AI agents and recently discovering a treatment for dry macular degeneration, an common eye disorder. This shows that AI is creating NEW knowledge - amazing.
Video: Amazing Video of Physical Robots Training with NVIDIA’s DreamGen
Rating rationale NVIDIA DreamGen enables synthetic training data generation for physical AI robots, allowing zero-shot learning. This work is the first in literature to enable zero-shot behavior generalization and zero-shot environment generalization. The cost and time of training physical AI robots continues to collapse quickly.
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Melissa Smith, CEO, WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Karen Stroup, Chief Digital Officer, WEX (NYSE: WEX)
Heather Lavoie EVP and CIO, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
Monica Caldas, EVP, Global CIO, Liberty Mutual
Barbara Widholm, VP of AI, State Street Bank (NYSE: STT)
Kausar Riaz Ahmed, Director, Generative AI, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
Vivek Mukhatyar, Generative AI Medical Engagement Lead, Pfizer (NYSE: PFE)
Jean Olive, CIO, John Hancock, division of Manulife Financial Corp (NYSE: MFC)
Dr. Thomas Kingsley, Director Epidemiology AI Lab, UCLA Health
Gaye Bok, Partner, AI and Digital Innovation Fund, Mass General Brigham
Ramesh Raskar, Professor and Director Media Lab, MIT
Parag Shah, VP Data, CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
Ben Kasdon, VP Products, CarGurus (NASDAQ: CARG)
Veronika Durgin, VP Data, Saks (NYSE: SKS)
Nina Lee Grooms, Board Member, Alamo Group (NYSE: ALG)
Andy Stetzler, Enterprise AI Lead, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Randy Bean, Senior Advisor, Data & AI Leadership Exchange
Ian Roberton, Director Technology/AI, American Securities
David Edelman, Professor, Harvard Business School
Andy Roberts, AI Architect, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Ashish Bhatia, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
Kevin Shatzkamer, CVP, Microsoft Customer Experience, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Pete Blackshaw, CEO, BrandRank.AI
Christopher Boone, Group VP of Life Sciences, Oracle (NYSE: ORCL)
Jeffrey Rayport, Professor, Harvard Business School
Rizwan Mallal, COO, Quantum Gears
Dr. Ryan Vega, Chief Health Officer, Vantiq
Gamiel Gran, Chief Commercial Officer, Mayfield Fund
Mike Grandinetti, Serial Tech Entrepreneur & Faculty, Harvard
Vladimir Jacimovic, CEO, AlgoVerde
Chris McKay, CEO, Maginative
Anthony Hill, CEO and Founder, Adaptix Corp
Kent Lucas, Founding Partner, Non Sibi Ventures
Dr. Tamara Nall, CEO, The Leading Niche
Tom Davenport, Professor, Babson College
Rudina Seseri, Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
John Werner, Founder, Imagination in Action
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