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Ninja Joins Forces With AWS To Offer Unlimited Use of the Best AI Models and Agents, Starting at Just $5/month.

As generative AI continues to reshape industries, tech giants are making major investments in proprietary tools and large language models. But Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking a different route—one focused on flexibility, cost-efficiency and security for users. Matt Garman, CEO of AWS recently shared with Axios, “We thought there’d be a lot of models, and people want to use small models and big models. Customers’ data and their IP was going to be the thing that ultimately differentiated whatever they built versus whatever everyone else built”. AWS’s approach is transforming how businesses, like NinjaTech AI, think about their AI strategy and implementation.

Nov 4, 2024

Amazon, Databricks Strike Five-Year Deal Around AI Chips

Amazon.com and startup Databricks struck a five-year deal that could cut costs for businesses seeking to build their own artificial-intelligence capabilities. Databricks will use Amazon’s Trainium AI chips to power a service that helps companies customize an AI model or build their own. Amazon says customers pay less to use its homegrown chips compared with the competition, such as Nvidia’s graphics processing units, or GPUs, which dominate the AI chip market.

Oct 15, 2024

NinjaTech AI achieves state-of-the-art HumanEval benchmark with new agentic workflow for CodeGen

Today we're announcing a state-of-the-art breakthrough that's pushing the boundaries of AI code generation. Our science team at NinjaTech AI developed a novel approach for code generation named “Multi-Programming Language Ensemble” (MPLE).

Sep 18, 2024

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MyNinja Just Supercharged Your AI Assistant with SuperGPT

At NinjaTech AI, we’re on a mission to make everyone more productive by democratizing access to the world’s best AI agents and foundation models. With over 1 million monthly users already relying on myninja.ai, we’re excited to announce an impressive list of upgrades that puts the “Super” in your SuperGPT AI Assistant. These upgrades are designed to seamlessly integrate our multi-modal AI agents into every aspect of your daily workflow, enabling you to accomplish unlimited tasks with greater efficiency and precision.

Sep 4, 2024

AI Foundations: What Does GPT Stand For?

In the realm of artificial intelligence, the creation of Generative Pre-Trained Transformers (GPT) has revolutionized the landscape of natural language processing (NLP). This innovative technology has garnered significant attention from industry experts, researchers, and enthusiasts alike, owing to its remarkable capabilities in generating human-like text, images, and even conversing with users. In this article, we will delve into the intricacies of GPT, exploring its underlying meaning and real-world applications.

Aug 26, 2024

Why Nvidia Is Still the Undisputed King of AI

Nvidia is famous for building AI chips, but its most important construction is a business bulwark that keeps customers in and competitors out. This barrier is made as much of software as it is of silicon. Over the past two decades, Nvidia has created what is known in tech as a “walled garden, ” not unlike the one created by Apple. While Apple’s ecosystem of software and services is aimed at consumers, Nvidia’s focus has long been the developers who build artificial-intelligence systems and other software with its chips.

Aug 9, 2024

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The Future of Productivity With AI Agents

NinjaTech AI’s mission is to make everyone more productive by taking care of time-consuming complex tasks with fast and affordable artificial intelligence (AI) agents. We recently launched MyNinja.ai, one of the world’s first multi-agent personal AI assistants, to drive towards our mission. MyNinja.ai is built from the ground up using specialized agents that are capable of completing tasks on your behalf, including scheduling meetings, conducting deep research from the web, generating code, and helping with writing. These agents can break down complicated, multi-step tasks into branched solutions, and are capable of evaluating the generated solutions dynamically while continually learning from past experiences. All of these tasks are accomplished in a fully autonomous and asynchronous manner, freeing you up to continue your day while Ninja works on these tasks in the background, and engaging when your input is required.

Jun 27, 2024

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NinjaTech launches personal AI assistant powered by AWS chips — not GPUs

NinjaTech AI, a Silicon Valley-based generative AI company, has announced the public beta launch of its new personal AI assistant, Ninja AI, a web application designed to act as a researcher, software engineer, scheduler/secretary, and more. Users can try it out themselves now at myninja.ai.

May 21, 2024

NinjaTech Teams Up With AWS To Launch the Next Generation Of AI Assistants

NinjaTech AI, a Silicon Valley-based generative AI company on a mission to make everyone more productive by taking care of time-consuming tasks, today announced the launch of its new personal AI assistant, Ninja, built with autonomous AI agents. NinjaTech AI is leveraging Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) purpose-built machine learning (ML) chips Trainium and Inferentia2, and Amazon SageMaker, a cloud-based machine learning service, to build, train, and scale custom AI agents that can handle complex tasks autonomously, such as conducting research and scheduling meetings. These AI agents save time and money for every user by bringing the power of generative AI to everyday workflows. Using AWS’s cloud capabilities, Ninja can conduct multiple tasks simultaneously, meaning users can assign new tasks without waiting for existing tasks to be completed.

May 21, 2024

What Are AI Agents

NinjaTech AI’s CEO, Babak Pahlavan, sheds light on this burgeoning phenomenon of AI Agents. Offering a glimpse into the intricacies and implications of reshaping our daily interactions in this tech-driven world. There’s been accelerating publicity lately around “AI agents.” In November 2023, Bill Gates wrote on his blog about how AI agents will completely change how we use computers. In February 2023, CNBC reported that in the last several weeks, big tech CEOs such as Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, and Sundar Pichai of Alphabet discussed their companies’ increasing focus and investment in AI agents numerous times in their respective earnings calls.

Mar 15, 2024

HR AI Tools To Boost Your Productivity

Departments across organizations started exploring artificial intelligence's potential in 2023 and that trend is expected to continue in 2024. Human resource teams are already using the technology for talent acquisition, employee onboarding and training, performance management, employee engagement, payroll processes and much more.

Jan 17, 2024

How to use AI productivity tools to save time

Whether you’re a Fortune 500 CEO or a solo entrepreneur, productivity is the fuel that keeps your business engine running. Technology advancements have historically led to considerable leaps in productivity, but in recent years we’ve seen a meaningful decline in per-capita and aggregate workforce productivity. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, at the end of 2022 US productivity was down 4.1% on an annualized basis; the most significant decline since the government started keeping track of this number in 1948.

Jan 5, 2024

Redefining The Digital Assistant With AI

Siri, meet Atlas, the new task-based assistant that wants to finish the job you started over a decade ago. At least that’s what Babak Pahlavan hopes for, along with the team at NinjaTech AI Inc.,the company responsible for Atlas.

Dec 21, 2023

AI Trends In 2024

As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently said: "There is no doubt 2023 was the year of AI." Though artificial intelligence has been around for decades, the introduction of ChatGPT — a consumer-facing AI chatbot — in late 2022 brought the technology to the forefront throughout 2023. ChatGPT, which gained more than 100 million users within two months of its launch, set off an AI arms race across the tech sector as startups and giants alike raced to perfect and ship usable competitors. Google (GOOG) - Get Free Report rolled out its Bard chatbot and started shipping AI enhancements to its suite of products.

Dec 20, 2023

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The Rise of AI Personal Assistants with Babak

Babak Pahlavan (⁠LinkedIn⁠) has been working on AI since 2008, when he was the Founder and CEO of his first AI startup named CleverSense. CleverSense was ⁠acquired⁠ by Google in 2011, where it became an important personalization layer in Google Maps. Babak went on to spend 11 years at Google as a Senior Director of Product Management, where he led and scaled several large products and teams including Google Analytics, Enterprise Measurement Suite and others. He left Google in October of 2022 to found NinjaTech AI in partnership with ⁠SRI⁠, which is the team's original home of ⁠Siri⁠. NinjaTech AI's mission is to democratize access to AI-powered executive assistants, to give administrative time back to every professional and take the drudgery out of work.

Dec 12, 2023

Boosting Productivity With AI Personal Assistants

AI-driven tools are proliferating—but still not where we want them to be. NinjaTech AI now offers a tool called Atlas, for example, which can schedule appointments, do web research and write code. Calendar scheduling seems to be a common task for these assistants, but I want more.

Dec 1, 2023

Why AI Will Eventually Replace UIs

On an average day, we interact with dozens of user interfaces and don’t even realize it. Whether it is setting directions in Google maps, booking a taxi or Uber, looking at new home listings, booking a flight, withdrawing cash from an ATM, paying your bills online or texting your friends… you’re constantly interacting with UIs. In most cases, at least a few of these UIs are being learned on-the-fly. For example, maybe you visit a new ATM from a different bank, you decide to try Redfin instead of Zillow, or your mobile operating system goes through an upgrade.

Nov 20, 2023

Building The Next Gen AI Personal Assistant

“There’s an app for that.” We all remember this term in 2009 when Apple’s app store famously added more than 100,000 apps within its first year of launch. Thanks to the rapid advances and proliferation of generative AI, today there’s a “co-pilot” for that. Originally coined by Microsoft-owned GitHub for an AI tool that gives coding suggestions, today the term co-pilot is broadly used to describe AI assistant tools that help users improve productivity across a variety of skills and tasks. The recent Cambrian explosion of co-pilots is an important step on the path to next-gen AI assistants — known as “autopilots.”

Nov 17, 2023

Can AI Foster Empathy?

Welcome back to another scintillating FUTUREPROOF conversation! Our guest this week is with Babak Pahlavan, an incredible mind in the world of technology and AI. A product thinker and a seasoned entrepreneur who sold his startup CleverSense to Google in 2011, then spent more than a decade with the company, Babak brings a wealth of experience to his new venture, Ninja Tech, which is looking to revolutionize the AI space.

Nov 14, 2023

NinjaTech AI’s founders are on a mission to build autonomous AI assistants that can get real tasks done for you.

If you ask tech investors about the biggest factor impacting a startup’s early success or failure, they’ll undoubtedly tell you it is the founders. Co-founding and building a new tech company from scratch takes more than acumen and intelligence — it takes a common vision, a passion for execution, a village that supports you, and a bit of luck.

Nov 2, 2023

Babak Pahlavan Of NinjaTech AI On 5 Tips For Accelerating Product Ideation & Innovation

Always have a customer and user centric approach. Get out there and talk with real customers and users. Understand their problems and how your product helps solve these problems. Build with empathy. A world where the pace of change is faster than ever, the power of great ideas has never been more crucial. And yet, developing these ideas into impactful, market-ready products can be an immense challenge. The best products are not born overnight, they’re the result of dedicated ideation and innovation processes. These processes aren’t always easy, but they’re necessary and can be catalyzed with the right strategies and approaches. How do you foster a culture of creativity within a team? How can one rapidly translate ideas into prototypes and eventually finished products? How can roadblocks be anticipated and managed effectively to avoid unnecessary delays. In this series, we’re eager to explore insights, stories, and actionable tips from those at the forefront of ideation and innovation. As part of this series, we had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Babak Pahlavan, founder and CEO, NinjaTech AI.

Oct 30, 2023

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Leveraging ChatGPT As A Positive Employee Development Tool

The emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT are already influencing how organizations approach certain processes, as they look to streamline and improve efficiency across the business. Navigating and deploying these tools, however, has also given rise to predictions. Open in a new tab of the technology replacing certain existing jobs and creating new ones as companies learn how to best leverage its potential.

Sep 13, 2023

Why Is Emotional Intelligence In AI Important And Challenging?

Artificial intelligence and emotional intelligence: Historically these two terms have not gone hand-in-hand. After all, how can artificial emotional intelligence work?And even if it could work, is that a good thing? A basic definition of empathy, according to Merriam-Webster, is “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another.”

Sep 12, 2023

AiThority Interview With Babak Pahlavan, Founder And CEO Of NinjaTech AI

Most organizations are capitalizing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to automate repetitive tasks to save time and resources. By 2035, nearly 90% of global organizations would rely on AI tools for their customer service management. This would boost their organizational productivity by 40 percent, and increase revenues by up to 25 percent.

Sep 12, 2023

The Evolution Of AI Chatbots: Past, Present And Future

The first chatbot is generally considered to be ELIZA, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT and released in 1966. ELIZA simulated conversation by using pattern matching and substitution methodology, which gave the illusion of understanding. It would rephrase user inputs as questions or statements, tricking some users into believing they were chatting with a real human. The era of chatbots had begun, and over the years, chatbots have evolved to the point where they are able to have full-fledged, existentialist conversations.

Aug 21, 2023

Building Ninja, The AI Personal Assistant

After years of show guests projecting their visions of an executive assistant AI, Babak Pahlavan is building one, over at Silicon Valley startup NinjaTech AI, and he comes on the show to tell us about the challenges of building that and what it will do. He has been working on AI since 2008, when he was the Founder and CEO of his first AI startup named CleverSense.

Aug 21, 2023

Adopt AI, Or Be Left Behind.

AI is the most rapidly-adopted technology that has ever been created. ChatGPT achieved 100 million users in two months; by comparison Instagram took 2.5 years to achieve this milestone, the internet took 7 years, and the telephone took 75 years. Business adoption of AI is just as fervent; in Q1 2023 earnings calls the mention of “AI” nearly doubled relative to the long-term average.

Aug 17, 2023

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Replacing UIs with AI Assistants

If your life is anything like mine, you interact with dozens of user interfaces every day and don’t realize it. When you connect to the Bluetooth in your car, withdraw cash at an ATM or pay your bills online, buy your morning coffee, conduct a Search on Google, book your Uber, or book a flight on Expedia…

Aug 8, 2023

AI, Productivity, And Population Decline Are On A Collision Course

Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, technology has played a trajectory-changing role in enabling human productivity, economic growth, and job creation. The inventions of technologies like the electric motor in 1890 and the personal computer in 1981 led to significant productivity booms in the early 1920s and early 2000s, respectively.

Jul 27, 2023

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We Need Companies To Go On Offense To Prevent A.I. Unemployment

Behnam Tabrizi has been teaching “Leading Organizational Transformation” at Stanford University’s Department of Management Science and Engineering and executive programs for more than 25 years. An expert in organizational and leadership transformation, he has helped thousands of CEOs and leaders plan, mobilize, and implement innovative transformational initiatives. He has written ten books, most recently Going on Offense.

Jun 23, 2023

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These Are The Sectors Where Hot Seed-Stage Startups Are Clustering In 2023

Seed-stage companies are a lot like grapes. They tend to form in bunches.The clustering effect is clear in this year’s vintage of seed-funded startups. A handful of categories accounted for an outsized number of investments.What were some of the standout areas? Using Crunchbase data, we scoured through hundreds of the largest seed and pre-seed rounds in 2023 to identify trends. The following is an assortment of a few that stood out, from AI assistants to clean power to esports.

Jun 22, 2023

When It Comes To Large Language Models, Less Is More!

With the advent of any new technology, humanity’s first attempt is typically achieved through brute force. As the technology evolves, we attempt to optimize and come up with a more elegant solution to the brute breakthrough. With the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) — in particular the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) — we’ve made significant strides in recent years demonstrating impressive capabilities.

Jun 12, 2023

NinjaTech AI Featured In The Street

Our CEO, Babak Pahlavan, sat down and chatted with Ian Krietzberg from TheStreet, yesterday, about what we are building at NinjaTech. Sam Naghshineh and the whole team are building something AMAZING! After engaging in some idle chit-chat with his hyper-realistic AI assistant, asked it to accomplish a simple task: call a restaurant and make a reservation. Providing his own number as a stand-in for the restaurant's, Pahlavan ended the conversation with his digital assistant and held his phone up to the screen. A call had come in.

Jun 10, 2023

Work From Home For Start-Ups: One Size Does NOT Fit All

For business leaders worried about the lack of productivity of people working from home it is important to not paint every employee with one broad brush. Working from home doesn’t systematically equate to an unproductive employee. For some employees, working from home does in fact make them more productive, but for many it makes them considerably less productive.

Jun 6, 2023

Creating Next-Gen Personal AI For The Workplace

Babak Pahlavan, the CEO and founder of NinjaTech AI, is applying advances in conversational assistance, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing from SRI’s Information and Computing Sciences Division to re-think how working professionals handle day-to-day tasks with the use of large language models.

May 25, 2023

In The Long Run, AI Is A Job Creator – Not A Destroyer

“AI is going to take all of our jobs!”: If your news feed is anything like mine, it is hard to avoid the articles and posts about how AI is going to displace countless jobs in the workforce. Generative AI adoption is moving faster than any technology ever created, and according to a recent study by @Goldman Sachs it has the potential to impact two-thirds of current occupations.

May 17, 2023

Top AI Experts Formerly from Google, Meta and AWS form NinjaTech AI, the First AI-Powered Executive Assistant for the Enterprise

Today, AI experts formerly from Google, Meta and AWS announced the formation of NinjaTech AI, a generative AI company building the first true next-generation personal assistant since Siri. Powered by proprietary large language models, decision engines and generative AI, NinjaTech will bring to life AI agents as a TaskGPT for working professionals to get day-to-day administrative tasks done efficiently and cost effectively.

May 2, 2023