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Contextual AI launches with $20M to build more reliable large language models for enterprises
Contextual AI Inc., an artificial intelligence development startup founded earlier this year, exited stealth mode today with $20 million in seed funding. Palo Alto, California-based Contextual AI raised the capital from a group of investors led by Bain Capital Ventures. The investment firm was joined by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greycroft and SV Angel. More than ...
Weights & Biases streamlines AI development and monitoring with new tools
Weights & Biases Inc., a startup with a platform for building artificial intelligence models, today debuted two new tools designed to make machine learning teams more productive. San Francisco-based Weights & Biases is backed by $200 million from investors. The startup received a $1 billion valuation after its most recent funding round in late 2021. ...
Shift5 raises $33M more for its hardware observability platform
Shift5 Inc., a startup with a platform for monitoring complex hardware systems such as aircraft, today announced that it has secured $33 million in funding. The capital was provided as an extension to a Series B round that Shift5 closed in February, bringing that round to $83 million in total. According to the startup, Moore ...
Google Cloud makes generative AI support generally available in Vertex AI
Google LLC’s cloud unit today made several of the generative artificial intelligence tools in its Vertex AI product suite generally available. The move comes a month after the company first previewed the tools at its Google I/O conference. Vertex AI is a suite of cloud services that companies can use to build machine learning models, ...
CrowdStrike adds more cybersecurity features for protecting cloud environments
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. is updating its cybersecurity platform with new features that will help companies more effectively protect their cloud environments from hackers. The enhancements made their debut today. Nasdaq-listed CrowdStrike sells an enterprise cybersecurity platform, Falcon, that ranks as one of the most popular products in its category. The company says it protects billions of software ...
Cisco simplifies its product portfolio with new Cisco Networking Cloud platform
Cisco Systems Inc. today introduced a new platform that will enable customers to manage its networking products through a common interface. The platform introduced by Chief Executive Chuck Robbins (pictured) at the annual Cisco Live 2023 conference taking place this week in Las Vegas, is called the Cisco Networking Cloud. It’s rolling out alongside enhancements ...
Enterprise search startup Glean launches generative AI assistant
Search engine developer Glean Technologies Inc. today introduced Glean Chat, an artificial intelligence assistant that can summarize business documents and generate text. The startup says the assistant, which is powered by generative AI models, is also capable of helping engineers with coding tasks. Palo Alto, California-based Glean exited stealth mode in 2021 with $55 million ...
Spotify lays off 200 employees amid shift in podcast strategy
Spotify Technology S.A. is letting go 200 employees, or about 2% of its workforce, as part of an effort to revamp its podcast business. The company announced the layoffs today. The move comes a few months after Spotify detailed plans to cut about 600 roles in a bid to reduce operating costs. Prior to that ...
SEC sues Binance and founder Changpeng Zhao over securities law violations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Binance Holdings Ltd. and founding Chief Executive,Changpeng Zhao with violating securities laws. The SEC has also named a Binance affiliate, BAM Trading Services Inc., in the lawsuit. It helped the company operate the U.S. version of its cryptocurrency exchange. Binance, BAM and Zhao are facing 13 charges ...
Carbon Health launches medical charting tool powered by GPT-4
Carbon Health Technologies Inc. today debuted a new software tool that uses OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 model to help physicians create medical charts faster. Founded in 2015, Carbon Health operates a network of more than 100 primary and urgent care clinics in the U.S. It provides its clinics with access to an internally developed software platform, ...