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DBOS nabs $8.5M to challenge Linux with a database-powered operating system
DBOS Inc., a new startup led by prominent computer scientists, launched today with $8.5 million in seed funding and an operating system designed to challenge Linux. Engine Ventures led the investment. Construct Capital, Sinewave and Gutbrain Ventures participated as well. DBOS was founded last April by prominent computer scientists Michael Stonebraker and Matei Zaharia. Stonebraker, ...
Vehicle simulation startup Applied Intuition raises $250M at $6B valuation
Applied Intuition Inc., a simulation startup that counts over a dozen large automakers as customers, has raised $250 million in a late-stage funding at a $6 billion valuation. The company announced the Series E investment today. It said that the round was led by returning backers Lux Capital and Elad Gil. Additionally, Applied Intuition disclosed ...
Alphabet spinoff SIP launches new venture to build battery-supported data centers
Alphabet Inc. spinoff Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners today launched a new venture, Verrus, that will build data centers optimized for sustainability. SIP emerged in 2019 from an Alphabet smart city project of the same name. The company is pursuing multiple infrastructure projects across areas such as recycling, telecommunications and power delivery. It also has a subsidiary ...
Elon Musk’s xAI to open-source its Grok language model
Elon Musk announced today that xAI Corp., the OpenAI competitor he launched last year, plans to open-source its flagship large language model. “This week, @xAI will open source Grok,” Musk (pictured) wrote in an early morning post on X. Developers typically share open-source artificial intelligence models on Hugging Face, a GitHub-like website for hosting machine ...
Covariant develops video-generating AI model for powering warehouse robots
Startup Covariant today detailed RFM-1, a large language model that allows industrial robots to ask for instructions on how to perform a task when they can’t complete it on their own. The artificial intelligence model also lends itself to other tasks. According to Covariant, RFM-1 can generate short videos that depict industrial robots performing tasks ...
Report: Hackers used Ivanti vulnerabilities to breach two CISA systems
Hackers have gained access to two applications operated by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, The Record reported today. A CISA spokesperson confirmed the breach in a statement. According to the agency, the hackers gained access by using vulnerabilities in Ivanti Inc. products that it uses internally. Ivanti is a major provider of infrastructure ...
Cloud chip supplier Astera Labs seeking to raise up to $534M in IPO
Astera Labs Inc., a maker of networking and memory management chips for cloud providers, today detailed the terms of its initial public offering. The company originally filed its IPO paperwork last month. At the time, Astera disclosed that it plans to list on the Nasdaq but didn’t share key financial details such as its fundraising ...
Former Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets for Chinese startups
A federal grand jury has indicted former Google LLC engineer Linwei Ding, aka Leon Ding, for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the search giant. The Justice Department unsealed the indictment on Wednesday. Ding, who was arrested earlier that day, is charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets. Those secrets relate to several key ...
Brevian launches with $9M in funding to simplify AI agent development
Brevian Inc., a startup that provides artificial intelligence agents for tasks such as investigating data breaches, today launched with $9 million in funding. TechCrunch reported that the round was led by Felicis Ventures. The deal is said to mark the venture capital firm’s largest-ever seed investment. Large language models are customizable, which allows users to ...
Inflection AI rolls out new large language model to its Pi chatbot
Inflection AI Inc. has switched its Pi chatbot to a new large language model, Inflection-2.5, that it says can nearly match the capabilities of GPT-4 across several key areas. The company detailed the upgrade today. It also shared new information about Pi’s recent user base growth, as well as its plans to make money from that ...