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Google DeepMind’s SIMA AI agent can play video games its never seen before
Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit DeepMind today revealed it has been experimenting with a new kind of AI agent that can carry out multiple kinds of tasks in 3D video games that it has never played before. The research organization has long been known for its achievements in games, building intelligent AI systems that can ...
Together AI closes on another bumper funding round and its value soars to $1.25B
Artificial intelligence startup Together Computer Inc., better known as Together AI, said today it has closed on a $106 million funding round that doubles its valuation since its prior raise last fall. Today’s round was led by Salesforce Ventures and saw participation from others including Coatue Management, Lux Capital and Emergence Capital, bringing the company’s ...
Solid earnings beat and strong revenue forecast sends UiPath’s stock higher
Shares of UiPath Inc. were trading slightly higher today after the automation software provider delivered better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and delivered strong guidance for the new fiscal year. The company reported a net profit of $33.9 million in the quarter, up from a loss of $27.6 million in the same period one year earlier. Earnings before ...
IO River raises $5.4M to help internet companies use multiple CDNs with ease
A startup called IO River Ltd. announced today it has closed on a $5.4 million seed funding round, as it launches what it says is the industry’s first multi-CDN-as-a-service platform. Using its platform, internet companies will be able to leverage multiple content delivery networks at the edge to achieve superior performance and reliability for applications ...
Arm reveals most advanced automotive chip designs yet, plus virtual prototypes to speed app development
Chip design firm Arm Holdings Ltd. is bringing the latest generation of its central processing unit architecture to the automotive industry with the launch of its new, safety-enabled Arm Automotive Enhanced range, based on Armv9. The new chips, which are said to deliver server-class performance for artificial intelligence in vehicles, are being launched ahead of ...
Meta unveils two new 24K GPU clusters it’s using to develop more advanced generative AI
Meta Platforms Inc. today revealed a pair of enormously powerful graphics processing unit clusters that it says will be used to support the training of next-generation generative artificial intelligence models, including the upcoming Llama 3. Meta engineers Kevin Lee, Adi Gangidi and Mathew Oldham explained in a blog post that the two 24,576-GPU data center scale ...
Cognition launches Devin, a generative AI-powered coding engineer
A new generative artificial intelligence startup called Cognition AI Inc. is looking to disrupt coding with the launch of a new tool that can autonomously create code for entire engineering jobs, including its own AI models. That tool’s name is Devin, and it takes the premise of GitHub Inc.’s and Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot developer tool ...
Grafana Labs debuts new features and integrations to enhance Kubernetes observability
Information technology monitoring startup Grafana Labs has announced a long list of updates to its platform in order to help companies to address some of the key challenges around Kubernetes monitoring, ahead of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe event that kicks off on March 19 in Paris. New York-based Grafana Labs is the developer of Grafana ...
Akamai and Neural Magic team up to accelerate AI workloads on edge CPU servers
Content delivery network and cloud computing company Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced it’s partnering with the artificial intelligence acceleration software firm NeuralMagic Inc. to bolster the AI processing capabilities of its cloud infrastructure platform. The company said it intends to “supercharge” its deep learning capabilities by leveraging Neural Magic’s unique software, which enables AI workloads ...
New cloud deals and demand for generative AI drive strong growth for Oracle
Shares of the database giant Oracle Corp. rose more than 13% in extended trading today after it posted a solid earnings beat, with particularly strong results in its growing cloud business. The company reported third-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.41 per share, beating the analysts’ consensus estimate of $1.38 per ...