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Nous Research Inc., the developer of the popular Hermes artificial intelligence agent, today announced that it has raised $90 million in funding. Early-stage startup fund Robot Ventures led the Series B round. It was joined by Nvidia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co., Y …
US government, tech giants and Biohub commit $1.8B to AI biology initiative
More than a half-dozen public and private sector organizations are teaming up to develop biology datasets for artificial intelligence models. The consortium, which announced the collaboration today, is committing $1.8 billion to the project. Studying how a cell responds to a new …
OpenAI publishes 722 AI-generated math discoveries in major scientific milestone
OpenAI Group PBC has published 722 math papers that it generated using an unreleased artificial intelligence model. Some of the papers, which were posted to GitHub late Tuesday, prove long-running hypotheses. Others disapprove proposed explanations of mathematical phenomena or narrow down the …
Multiply Labs raises $75M to optimize pharmaceutical manufacturing with robots
Multiply Labs Inc., a startup that develops automation equipment for drugmakers, has raised $75 million in funding. Prominent medical researcher Patrick Soon-Shiong led the deal. Multiply Labs stated in today’s funding announcement that the Series B raise also drew more than a …
Vinci reels in $250M for its engineering simulation platform
Vinci4D Inc. today announced that it has closed a $250 million funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. Advent, Temasek and Xora jointly led the Series B deal. They were joined by several startup funds including AMD Ventures. Hardware engineers use simulations …
Mistral launches open-source Mistral Large 4, details AI roadmap
Mistral AI SAS today opened access to Mistral Large 4, its most capable large language model to date. On launch, the LLM is available in public preview through the company’s cloud platform. Mistral plans to release the model’s weights later this month. …
Reflection AI debuts open-source Beam model with 501B parameters
Reflection AI Inc. today introduced Beam, an open-source large language model with 501 billion parameters. The launch comes a few months after the startup raised funding at a $25 billion valuation. Around the same time, Reflection AI reportedly inked a $6.3 billion …
Schneider Electric to buy engineering software giant PTC for $23.7B
Schneider Electric Inc., one of the world’s largest industrial companies, today announced plans to acquire PTC Inc. for $23.7 billion. The all-cash deal values the software maker at $205 per share. That represents a 42% premium to its last closing price. PTC …
Robotics startup RobCo valued at $1B+ in $40M funding round
Industrial automation startup RobCo Inc. today announced that it has closed a $40 million funding round. Most of the shares that changed hands were sold by current and former employees. The investor consortium that bought the equity included Sequoia, Lightspeed and several …
Robotics AI developer FieldAI reportedly raising $700M in funding
FieldAI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models for robots, is reportedly seeking $700 million in funding. A source told Business Insider today that the round could value the company at $10 billion. That’s five times what FieldAI was worth last …