The sixth annual AI Innovation Awards were presented during VB Transform 2024 in San Francisco, recognizing enterprise implementation, innovation, startup promise, visionary, and inclusivity initiatives in generative AI. The awards were given in five categories: Generative AI Innovator of the Year, Best Enterprise Implementation of Generative AI, Most Promising Generative AI Startup, Generative AI Visionary, Generative AI Diversity and Inclusion, and Generative AI Open Source Contribution.
The nominees and winners were selected based on daily editorial coverage and the expertise, knowledge, and experience of the nominating committee members, which included Jonathan Frankle, Chief Scientist for neural networks at Databricks; Diya Wynn, Responsible AI lead at AWS; Tonya Custis, Senior Director of AI research at Autodesk; Prem Natarajan, Chief Scientist and head of enterprise AI at Capital One; and Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Principal Research Scientist at MIT College of Computing.
The Generative AI Innovator of the Year award was given to OpenAI, a startup that has captured the attention of both industry insiders and the general public with its groundbreaking AI innovations. The company’s rapid-fire advancements, including GPT-3, GPT-4, and DALL-E, have not only showcased the potential of AI but have also sparked global conversations about its implications.
The Best Enterprise Implementation of Generative AI award was given to Microsoft, which has been working on incorporating generative AI into its Dynamics and Power platforms to enable enterprise applications with the power of generative AI. The company has also deployed its Copilot generative AI assistant across the Microsoft 365 suite of business productivity and collaboration apps.
The Most Promising Generative AI Startup award was given to Patronus AI, a company focused on AI evaluation and security, particularly for large language models (LLMs). The company aims to address challenges in accuracy, privacy, and auditing needs as more tech companies release models capable of seeing, hearing, and injecting emotion into interactions.
The Generative AI Visionary award was given to Abridge, a company offering an AI-powered platform built for medical conversations and improving clinical documentation. The company’s technology transforms patient-clinician conversations into structured clinical notes in real-time with deep electronic medical records integrations.
The Generative AI Diversity and Inclusion award was given to Maryam Rezapoor, who built the AWS AI and ML Scholarship to provide high school and college students from underserved and underrepresented communities with resources to start their careers in AI and ML.
The Generative AI Open Source Contribution award was given to Hugging Face, a leading AI company and platform that provides a comprehensive ecosystem for machine learning practitioners, researchers, and developers. Hugging Face is renowned for its significant open-source contributions to the ML community, particularly in advancing natural language processing and computer vision technologies.
In-person passes for VB Transform 2024 are sold out, but on-demand access is available after the conference. Register to access VB Transform On-Demand.
