Maria Deutscher, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Celestial AI raises $250M for its optical interconnect technology

By Maria Deutscher Mar 11, 2025

Celestial AI Inc., a startup that develops optical technology for linking chips, has raised $250 million in funding at a $2.5 billion valuation. The Series-C1 investment comes a year after the company’s previous raise.…

AI

AI21 debuts Maestro AI planning and orchestration system

By Maria Deutscher Mar 10, 2025

AI21 Labs Ltd. today introduced Maestro, a software system that promises to boost the output quality of large language models significantly. Israel-based AI21 is an artificial intelligence startup backed by $336 million in funding…

Apps

Flipboard debuts new Surf beta release with upgraded Bluesky integration

By Maria Deutscher Mar 10, 2025

Flipboard Inc. has introduced a new beta release of its Surf content discovery service. TechCrunch reported today that the update comes about four months after the company first started testing the app with a limited…

AI

Qualcomm acquires edge AI development startup Edge Impulse

By Maria Deutscher Mar 10, 2025

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is acquiring Edge Impulse Inc., a startup that helps developers run artificial intelligence models on connected devices. The companies announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms. San Jose, California-based…

AI

Microsoft reportedly develops LLM series that can rival OpenAI, Anthropic models

By Maria Deutscher Mar 7, 2025

Microsoft Corp. has developed a series of large language models that can rival algorithms from OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, multiple publications reported today. Sources told Bloomberg that the LLM series is known as MAI.…

AI

Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding

By Maria Deutscher Mar 7, 2025

Reflection AI Inc., a new startup led by former Google DeepMind researchers, launched today with $130 million in early-stage funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The first, a $25 million seed…

AI

Report: US could ban DeepSeek’s app on government devices

By Maria Deutscher Mar 7, 2025

The White House is reportedly weighing a new rule that would prohibit the installation of DeepSeek’s app on government devices. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that the regulation is “likely”…

AI

Defense technology startup Shield AI valued at $5.3B in $240M funding round

By Maria Deutscher Mar 6, 2025

Defense technology startup Shield AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $240 million in funding at a $5.3 billion valuation. The Series F-1 round included the participation of Andreessen Horowitz, U.S. Innovative Technology…

AI

AI training data provider Turing closes $111M investment

By Maria Deutscher Mar 6, 2025

Turing Enterprises Inc., a provider of training data for artificial intelligence models, today announced that it has closed a late-stage $111 million funding round. Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, led the Series…

AI

Alibaba shares jump on new open-source QwQ-32B reasoning model

By Maria Deutscher Mar 6, 2025

Shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. rose more than 8% today following the company’s release of a reasoning model with performance comparable to DeepSeek-R1. The new model, QwQ-32B, was open-sourced on Wednesday. R1 comprises…

Maria Deutscher

Celestial AI raises $250M for its optical interconnect technology

AI21 debuts Maestro AI planning and orchestration system

Qualcomm acquires edge AI development startup Edge Impulse

Microsoft reportedly develops LLM series that can rival OpenAI, Anthropic models

Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding

Report: US could ban DeepSeek’s app on government devices

Defense technology startup Shield AI valued at $5.3B in $240M funding round

AI training data provider Turing closes $111M investment

Alibaba shares jump on new open-source QwQ-32B reasoning model

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