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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 ...
Google-backed GUAC cybersecurity tool becomes an OpenSSF project
The developers of GUAC, a tool for finding vulnerabilities in enterprise software, today announced that they have donated the project to the OpenSSF consortium. GUAC was released in 2022 by Google LLC, cybersecurity startup Kusari Inc., Citibank NA and Purdue University. OpenSSF, the consortium to which the project has been donated, launched two years earlier ...
Taalas raises $50M to develop chips optimized for specific AI models
Taalas Inc., a startup that plans to sell chips tailor-made for specific artificial intelligence models, has raised $50 million to support its commercialization effort. The company announced the raise on Tuesday. The funding was provided by Quiet Capital and Pierre Lamond, a prominent venture capitalist who backed several of the semiconductor industry’s early players and ...
Microsoft engineer flags Copilot Designer concerns as academics call for better AI risk research
A Microsoft Corp. engineer has written a letter to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission raising concerns about the company’s Copilot Designer tool. CNBC reported the development today. It comes about a day after more than 100 academics, tech executives and other experts published an open letter focused on the risks posed by advanced AI models. ...
Cloudflare acquires Nefeli Networks and launches multicloud networking service
Cloudflare Inc. today launched a new service, Magic Cloud Networking, that organizations can use to link together workloads running on different cloud platforms. The offering is based on technology that the company obtained through a recent startup acquisition. The startup, Nefeli Networks Inc., previously raised about $9 million in funding from New Enterprise Associates and ...
Accenture acquires Udacity and introduces new technology training service
Professional services company Accenture plc today announced that it’s acquiring Udacity Inc., a venture-backed startup with a popular online learning platform. The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed. After the acquisition closes later this year, Accenture plans to launch a technology training service called LearnVantage for enterprises and government organizations. The company said that it ...
Ubicloud reels in $16M for its open-source cloud platform
Ubicloud, a startup with an open-source cloud platform powered by bare-metal hardware, has raised $16 million in seed funding to support its growth efforts. TechCrunch reported today that the investment closed in January. It included contributions from Y Combinator, 500 Emerging Europe and multiple angel investors. Ubicloud is led by former Microsoft Corp. executives Ozgun ...
Meta recovering from outage that took Facebook, Instagram and Threads offline
Meta Platforms Inc. experienced an outage this morning that made Facebook, Instagram and Threads inaccessible worldwide for about two hours. The first user reports of downtime started emerging around 10 a.m. EST. Meta confirmed the outage shortly thereafter, stating in a note on its status page that “we are aware of an issue impacting Facebook Login. ...
Baseten nabs $40M for its cloud-based AI inference platform
Baseten Labs Inc., a startup making it easier for developers to run artificial intelligence models in production, today announced that it has closed a $40 million funding round. IVP and Spark Capital led the investment with participation from several existing backers. According to Forbes, the Series B raise values Baseten at more than $200 million. ...