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Microsoft unbundles Teams from Office 365 and Microsoft 365 worldwide
A few months after unbundling Microsoft Teams from its Office productivity suite in the European Union, Microsoft Corp. today implemented the change globally. The move comes as the company’s go-to-market strategy for Teams faces scrutiny in the EU. It’s believed regional regulators could bring antitrust charges over the matter in the coming months. Microsoft previously ...
OpenAI details Voice Engine speech generation AI
OpenAI today detailed Voice Engine, an artificial intelligence model that can generate synthetic speech based on user-provided audio samples. The company developed the model in late 2022. OpenAI uses it to power ChatGPT features that enable customers to interact with the chatbot with voice commands and have it read text aloud. Additionally, the company made ...
Report: Microsoft to build ‘Stargate’ supercomputer with millions of chips for OpenAI
Microsoft Corp. plans to build a supercomputer with millions of processors to support OpenAI’s research, The Information reported today. The system will be geared toward running artificial intelligence workloads. Reportedly codenamed Stargate by Microsoft executives, the supercomputer is believed to be part of a broader initiative that is also set to see the company build ...
AI startups Scale AI and Cohere reportedly in talks to raise hundreds of millions
Scale AI Inc. and Cohere Inc. are seeking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, according to two reports published on Thursday. The startups join the growing list of artificial intelligence developers rumored to be in talks for mammoth funding rounds. Figure AI Inc., which develops AI-powered humanoid robots, is seeking $500 million, ...
Modular open-sources its Mojo AI programming language’s core components
Modular Inc. today open-sourced the core components of Mojo, a programming language designed for writing artificial intelligence software. The code is available under a customized version of the Apache 2 license. Modular added modifications designed to make Mojo easier to combine with software distributed under GPL2, another popular open-source license. The highest-profile project that uses ...
Zafran launches with $30M+ to speed up vulnerability remediation
Startup Zafran Security Ltd. launched today with a platform that promises to help companies more quickly fix vulnerabilities in their technology infrastructure. The startup disclosed on the occasion that it has raised more than $30 million through a funding round led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts. Cerca Partners and Penny Jar Capital contributed as well. ...
Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for defrauding FTX users and investors
A Manhattan district judge today sentenced FTX Trading Ltd. founder Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison for fraud. The ruling comes about five months after a jury found Bankman-Fried guilty of all seven counts that prosecutors had brought against him. The FTX founder was charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and conspiracy ...
Lightning AI debuts source-to-source Thunder compiler to accelerate AI training
Startup Lightning AI Inc. today debuted Thunder, an open-source compiler that rewrites artificial intelligence models to make them easier to train. The company claims its software can reduce the time it takes to develop AI models by several weeks. That cuts the amount of compute resources needed for machine learning projects, which in turn lowers ...
Amazon invests $2.75B more in OpenAI competitor Anthropic
Amazon.com Inc. has invested $2.75 billion in Anthropic PBC, a startup with a large language model that can outperform GPT-4 across multiple task categories. The companies announced the deal today. Amazon provided the capital as part of a previously announced plan to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic. Under the same agreement, it led ...
Optical interconnect developer Celestial AI raises $175M in fresh funding
Celestial AI Inc., a startup that develops optical technology for linking together processors and memory modules, has secured $175 million in new funding. The announcement of the Series C round today comes shortly after the company’s disclosure that it has multiple hyperscale and semiconductor industry customers. Two major semiconductor suppliers, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Advanced Micro ...