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OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Health to answer users’ medical questions
OpenAI Group PBC today previewed ChatGPT Health, an upcoming feature that will help users of its chatbot service find medical information. The feature takes the form of a new section in the ChatGPT interface. According to OpenAI, the chatbot will detect when users enter medical questions into the main chat box and suggest that they ...
Anthropic reportedly seeking to raise $10B at $350B valuation
Less than two months after its last funding round, Anthropic PBC is reportedly in talks with investors to raise an additional $10 billion. Sources told the Wall Street Journal today that Coatue Management and GIC are set to lead the round. It will reportedly give Anthropic a pre-money valuation of $350 billion, nearly double what ...
Articul8 reels in $35M+ for its AI application platform
Articul8 AI Inc., a startup that helps companies build artificial intelligence applications, has closed the first tranche of a $70 million funding round. TechCrunch reported today that the investment was worth over $35 million. Adara Ventures led the deal with participation from chipmaker NXC Corp., Aditya Birla Ventures and others. Articul8 is now valued at ...
AI evaluation startup LMArena raises $150M at $1.7B valuation
LMArena, a startup that helps artificial intelligence developers benchmark their models’ output quality, has raised $150 million in early-stage funding. The company announced the Series A investment today. The round was led by Felicis and UC Investments, the University of California system’s asset management arm. LMArena was founded in 2023 by two UC Berkeley researchers. ...
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $20B funding round backed by Nvidia and Cisco
Large language model developer xAI Corp. today announced that it has raised $20 billion in late-stage funding. The Elon Musk-backed company says that Nvidia Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. participated in the Series E round. They were joined by Valor Equity Partners, Stepstone Group, Fidelity Management & Research, Qatar Investment Authority, MGX, Baron Capital Group ...
Data center startup DayOne closes $2B+ funding round
DayOne Data Centers Ltd. has raised a Series C funding round worth more than $2 billion to finance its construction efforts. The Singapore-based company announced the investment on Monday. Coatue led the raise with participation from several other institutional investors including Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund. DayOne, which launched at the start of the year, previously ...
Broadcom debuts new chips for powering Wi-Fi 8 access points
Broadcom Inc. today debuted a trio of chips designed to power wireless access points based on the upcoming Wi-Fi 8 standard. The current version of the networking technology, Wi-Fi 7, was developed mainly with performance in mind. It provides more than quadruple the peak throughput of the previous iteration. Wi-Fi 8, in contrast, will put ...
Qualcomm debuts new chips for robots and Windows laptops
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today debuted the Dragonwing IQ10, a system-on-chip optimized to power humanoid robots. The company announced the module at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas alongside several new processors for connected devices and laptops. According to Qualcomm, the Dragonwing IQ10 can power humanoid robots with more than 20 cameras. It also supports ...
Nvidia debuts Rubin chip with 336B transistors and 50 petaflops of AI performance
Nvidia Corp. today announced a new flagship graphics processing unit, Rubin, that provides five times the inference performance of Blackwell. The GPU made its debut at CES alongside five other data center chips. Customers can deploy them together in a rack called the Vera Rubin NVL72 that Nvidia says ships with 220 trillion transistors, more ...
Nvidia introduces open-source AI models for humanoid robots, autonomous vehicles
Nvidia Corp. has released more than a half-dozen artificial intelligence models designed for autonomous systems such as self-driving cars. The algorithms, which are all available under an open-source license, made their debut today at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas. They’re rolling out alongside several development tools and a computing module for robots called ...