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We are proud to celebrate Black History Month. Yesterday, tomorrow, and today. 🚀 At Avenir Technology, we recognize that Black history isn’t just something to be celebrated in February—it’s a rich, ongoing story that shapes our world every day. From pioneers like Katherine Johnson, whose mathematical brilliance propelled space exploration, to Dr. Mark Dean, a key architect of the personal computer, Black innovators have left an indelible mark on science and technology--and many other fields. Their contributions continue to inspire groundbreaking advancements in AI, cybersecurity, and software development—fields we’re proud to be part of. As we celebrate Black History Month, let’s commit to amplifying Black voices, investing in diverse talent, and creating spaces where the next generation of innovators can thrive. Who are the trailblazers in technology that inspire you? Drop their names in the comments—we’d love to celebrate them! 🚀 #avenir #technology #blackhistory #govcom #innovation #stem

DeepSeek AI's app is a wake-up call for US technology companies. At the same time, for government and government users, this could be the next weapon for the CCP. Watch this great interview with former Chief Software Officer, Nicolas M. Chaillan! #avenir #technology #ai #future

OpenAI recently launched their agentic AI service, Operator. This is a gamechanger for business and for government clients. Here are the highlights: 👉 Operator is a web app that can carry out simple online tasks in a browser, such as booking concert tickets or filling an online grocery order. 👉 The app is powered by a new model called Computer-Using Agent—CUA —built on top of OpenAI’s multimodal large language model GPT-4o. 👉 The CUA is trained to interact with the front-end of websites, meaning it doesn’t need to use developer-facing APIs to tap into different services. 👉 In other words, the CUA can use buttons, navigate menus, and fill out forms on a web page much like a human would. 👉 Operator is available today at operator.chatgpt.com to people in the US signed up with ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI’s premium $200-a-month service. 👉 The company says it plans to roll the tool out to other users in the future. 👉 It will be rolled out to all countries soon. There are some limitations to Operator at this time, but agentic AI's use and capabilities will just increase over time. Share your thoughts below. 👇 What do you think about this capability? #avenir #technology #govcom #future #ai #agenticai

Chinese AI start-up, DeepSeek is shaking things up in the AI world. Here are the key take-aways: 1/ AI Model: On January 20, DeepSeek , a Chinese AI research lab, released the open-source DeepSeek-R1 model, outperforming leading models like OpenAI’s on several benchmarks, challenging Western AI giants in capability, cost, and openness. 2/ Tech Cold War Impact: US export controls forced Chinese companies to innovate under resource constraints. DeepSeek excelled by focusing on software-driven resource optimization rather than hardware-intensive scaling. 3/ Open-Source Strategy: DeepSeek embraced open-source methods to pool expertise, foster collaboration, and drive innovation, setting itself apart from more hardware-reliant competitors. 4/ Unique Origins and Vision: DeepSeek evolved from High-Flyer, a prominent Chinese quantitative hedge fund, leveraging its resources to prioritize scientific research over profit-driven commercialization. 5/ Young, Ambitious Team: DeepSeek recruited recent PhD graduates from top Chinese universities, fostering a collaborative and mission-driven culture focused on solving complex problems. 6/ Innovation Under Constraints: DeepSeek overcame US export restrictions by developing efficient training methods, such as Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) and Mixture-of-Experts, reducing the need for high-end hardware. 7/ Efficient Model Development: DeepSeek 's latest model required only one-tenth the computing power of Meta’s Llama 3.1 to train, highlighting its efficiency and optimization breakthroughs. 8/ Global AI Implications: DeepSeek ’s success challenges assumptions about China’s AI capabilities under US export controls and highlights new opportunities for cost-effective, cutting-edge AI development. It's time for the US tech companies to rise to the challenge and learn from this. Let's go! 🚀 #avenir #technology #govcom #ai

OpenAI's ChatGPT has released ChatGPT Gov for use by government agencies. OpenAI's team said, "we believe the U.S. government’s adoption of artificial intelligence can boost efficiency and productivity and is crucial for maintaining and enhancing America’s global leadership⁠ opens in a new window) in this technology. " "At OpenAI, we’re building AI to help people solve hard problems, and we see enormous potential for these tools to support the public sector in tackling complex challenges—from improving public health and infrastructure to strengthening national security." "By making our products available to the U.S. government, we aim to ensure AI serves the national interest and the public good, aligned with democratic values, while empowering policymakers to responsibly integrate these capabilities to deliver better services to the American people." Here are some highlights: 1/ ChatGPT Gov includes access to many of the same features and capabilities of ChatGPT Enterprise, such as: 2/ Saving and sharing conversations within their government workspace, and uploading text and image files. 3/ GPT-4o, our flagship model, excelling in text interpretation, summarization, coding, image interpretation, and mathematics. 4/ Custom GPTs that employees can build and share within their government workspace. 5/ An administrative console for CIOs and IT teams to manage users, groups, Custom GPTs, single sign-on (SSO), and more. It can run on Microsoft Azure's Government Cloud. It's here! Let's go! 🚀 #avenir #technology #ai #llm

The US government must keep pace with an AI-empowered citizenry: The citizen experience needs are changing.... #avenir #technology #govcom #ai #cx

AI can help upskill federal workers and help with the IT skills shortage: #avenir #technology #govcom #federal #ai

The Trump Administration has launched the $500 billion Stargate AI Initiative. OpenAI SoftBank and Oracle have formed a joint venture to invest in American infrastructure and create American jobs. The majority of these jobs will at large data centers. Data is a strategic asset. Harnessing our data and utilizing AI are the future. #avenir #technology #ai #future #govcom https://lnkd.in/e-2wRKiG

The World Health Organization predicts that cancer cases will rise 77% by 2050. FDA Oncology Center of Excellence is holding a virtual event called "Conversations on Cancer" on February 11th. The event will be a chat with cancer patients, and they will also discuss the importance of participating in cancer clinical trials. Register here: https://lnkd.in/efxNRUPC. #avenir #technology #healthcare #fda

The AFCEA Bethesda Health IT Summit has been postponed. Be on the lookout for communications mid-February for the new dates. We look forward to participating and collaborating with federal and industry healthcare and IT leaders! Let's go! 🚀 #avenir #technology #healthcare #it #AFCEABethesda #HITS2025