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Relace wants to build the infrastructure foundation for AI coding agents after raising $23M in funding
Artificial intelligence coding infrastructure startup Relace today announced it has closed on $23 million in early-stage funding. The Series A round was led by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz, and saw participation from Matrix Partners and Y Combinator. The startup, which is officially known as Squack Inc., is building ...
A121 Labs’ Jamba Reasoning 3B is a powerful tiny model that promises to transform AI economics
Generative artificial intelligence developer AI21 Labs Inc. says it wants to bring agentic AI workloads out of the data center and onto user’s devices with its newest model, Jamba Reasoning 3B. Launched today, Jamba Reasoning 3B is one of the smallest models the company has ever released, the latest addition to the Jamba family of ...
Spacelift enables instant, ‘codeless’ infrastructure provisioning for cloud workloads
Spacelift Inc. is building on the momentum of its “infrastructure-as-code” orchestration platform, launching an entirely new “agentic” infrastructure deployment model that allows cloud computing resources to be provisioned with natural language commands. The new offering, called Spacelift Intent, enables DevOps and platform teams to choose between traditional IaC and GitOps, which enable more precise control ...
AI sales automation startup AnyTeam gets $10M backing from 40+ investors
Artificial intelligence sales startup AnyTeam Inc. said today it’s launching its platform in early access after closing on a $10 million seed funding round that attracted interest from numerous investors. The round was led by SignalFire and saw participation from Crosslink Capital and a long list of more than 40 individual angel investors, including executives ...
Brandi AI tells brands to stop worrying about SEO and focus on generative engine optimization instead
As artificial intelligence chatbots take over from search engines as the go-to platform for answers, brands that once had a solid online presence may suddenly find themselves invisible. If so, then Brandi AI LLC, the creator of a specialized “generative engine optimization” platform that has just launched today, wants to help. The company says it’s ...
Anthropic’s AI safety tool Petri uses autonomous agents to study model behavior
Anthropic PBC is doubling down on artificial intelligence safety with the release of a new open-source tool that uses AI agents to audit the behavior of large language models. It’s designed to identify numerous problematic tendencies of models, such as deceiving users, whistleblowing, cooperation with human misuse and facilitating terrorism. The company said it has already ...
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model can navigate the web like a human
Google LLC has just announced a new version of its Gemini large language model that can navigate the web through a browser and interact with various websites, meaning it can perform tasks such as searching for information or buying things without human supervision. The model, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, uses a combination of visual understanding and ...
Dataiku’s new Agent Hub gives businesses full control over agentic AI automation
Dataiku Inc., the creator of a data science platform for artificial intelligence developers, is beefing up the agentic capabilities of its Universal AI Platform with the launch of a new Agent Hub. It’s part of an ongoing effort to help companies maintain better control over AI agents, which operate autonomously with limited human oversight. In ...
Firefly targets the defense industry after buying SciTec for $855M
Space technology company Firefly Aerospace Inc. wants to expand into the defense sector after announcing plans Sunday to acquire a company called SciTec Inc. for $855 million. The deal will see Firefly cough up $300 million in cash, and $555 million worth of its shares to SciTec’s owners, priced at $50 each. Firefly said it’s ...
AI startup DualEntry aims to rip out legacy ERP software after raising $90M in funding
DualEntry said today it has raised $90 million in early-stage funding to try to bring artificial intelligence automation to one of the most entrenched enterprise software markets of all: financial management and accounting. Today’s Series A round was led by high-profile venture capitalists Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures and saw the participation of Google ...