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Google debuts new accuracy-optimized DataGemma LLM series
Google LLC has developed a series of language models that can answer questions about numerical facts more accurately than earlier algorithms. The DataGemma series, as the model lineup is called, debuted on Thursday. Google has made the source code for the algorithms available on Hugging Face. DataGemma is optimized to field user questions about statistical ...
CoreWeave reportedly planning secondary sale at $23B valuation
CoreWeave Inc. is negotiating a secondary sale will that enable investors to offload $400 million to $500 million worth of shares, Bloomberg reported today. The paper’s sources said that the deal is set to value CoreWeave, which operates a cloud platform optimized for artificial intelligence workloads, at $23 billion. That’s up from $19.1 billion in ...
Ireland opens privacy probe into Google’s PaLM 2 language model
Ireland’s privacy regulator has opened a probe into Google LLC over its PaLM 2 large language model. The Data Protection Commission, or DPC, announced the move today. Officials will review whether PaLM 2 was built in a manner compliant with the European Union’s GDPR data privacy regulation. The DPC is responsible for investigating Google’s GDPR ...
OpenAI’s new o1 large language model can decode scrambled text and ace math exams
OpenAI today launched a new large language model series, o1, that can decode scrambled text, answer science questions with better accuracy than PhD holders and perform other complex tasks. The LLM series better-known by it code name Strawberry, comprises two models on launch: o1-preview and o1-mini. The former is the more capable of the two, ...
Mastercard acquires threat intelligence provider Recorded Future for $2.65B
Mastercard Inc. today announced plans to acquire Recorded Future Inc., the world’s largest provider of information about hacker activities. The $2.65 billion deal likely represents a sizable return for Insight Partners, which spent $780 million five years ago to buy a controlling interest in Recorded Future. At the time, the cybersecurity provider had more than 400 ...
OpenAI reportedly seeking $6.5B investment at $150B valuation
OpenAI is seeking to raise $6.5 billion from investors at a $150 billion pre-money valuation, Bloomberg reported today. The report comes about two weeks after rumors first emerged that the ChatGPT developer is in talks for a new multibillion-dollar funding round. At the time, sources told CNBC that OpenAI was eyeing a valuation of “more than ...
Meta confirms it scrapes Australian users’ posts for AI training without opt-out option
Meta Platforms Inc. is scraping Australian users’ Facebook and Instagram posts without providing an opt-out option, the company acknowledged today. Melinda Claybaugh, Meta’s global privacy director, detailed the practice during a hearing before the Australian Senate. The executive stated that the company uses the public posts of adult users in Australia to train artificial intelligence ...
Oracle to offer ‘world’s first’ zettascale AI cluster via its public cloud
Oracle Corp. plans to equip its public cloud with what it describes as the world’s first zettascale computing cluster. The cluster, which the company previewed today at its Oracle CloudWorld conference, will provide up to 2.4 zettaflops of performance for artificial intelligence workloads. One zettaflop equals a trillion billion computing operations per second. The speed ...
ServiceNow debuts array of new AI features for its platform
ServiceNow Inc. today introduced a raft of new artificial intelligence features designed to help enterprises make their employees more productive. NYSE-listed ServiceNow provides a popular cloud platform, the Now Platform, that companies rely on to deliver services. It can be used to provide, among others, customer support to buyers and onboarding assistance to new hires. ...
Autonomous driving startup Forterra closes $75M investment
Forterra, a supplier of autonomous driving technology for military and commercial vehicles, today announced that it has closed a $75 million Series B investment. The startup says that it secured more than two and a half times the sum it had originally set out to raise. Moore Strategic Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital and Hedosophia led ...