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Deepset nabs $30M to speed up natural language processing projects
Deepset GmbH today announced that it has raised $30 million to enhance its open-source Haystack framework, which helps developers build natural language processing applications. The Berlin-based startup will also use the capital to extend its commercial offering, a cloud platform called Deepset Cloud. The offering is partly based on Haystack. Balderton Capital led Deepset’s latest ...
AI development tooling startup Weights & Biases reels in $50M
Weights & Biases Inc., a startup helping Nvidia Corp. and OpenAI LP build artificial intelligence models faster, today announced that it has raised $50 million in funding. Former GitHub Chief Executive Officer Nat Nat Friedman and former Y Combinator partner Daniel Gross led the round. A half-dozen institutional investors, most of them existing backers, contributed ...
Rubrik acquires data security startup Laminar for reported $100M+
Rubrik Inc. is acquiring Laminar Technologies Inc., a startup that helps companies map out their cloud-based data assets and find insecurely stored information. Rubrik didn’t disclose the financial terms in its announcement of the deal today. However, a source told TechCrunch that the acquisition values Laminar at more than $100 million. Two other sources claimed that ...
Nvidia debuts upgraded GH200 Grace Hopper chip with high-speed memory
Nvidia Corp. today debuted an upgraded version of its GH200 Grace Hopper chip that will enable companies to run more sophisticated language models. Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang detailed the chip during a keynote at Siggraph, a computer graphics conference taking place this week in Las Vegas. Huang said the GH200 (pictured) is currently ...
Datadog tops earnings estimates, but mixed guidance sends its stock falling
Datadog Inc. today posted strong second-quarter results that topped the market’s expectations, but its revenue guidance missed the mark and sent its stock plummeting. The company’s shares are currently down more than 17% in trading. New York-based Datadog sells a platform that organizations use to monitor their infrastructure for technical issues. The platform can detect ...
Rasgo introduces data analytics platform powered by GPT-4
Startup Rasgo Intelligence Inc. today debuted Rasgo AI, a software platform that uses OpenAI LP’s GPT-4 model to help companies extract insights from their data. New York-based Rasgo is backed by $25 million in funding. It raised most of that capital through a $20 million Series A round announced in June 2021. At the time, ...
SandboxAQ releases post-quantum cryptography ‘meta-library’ for developers
Well-funded quantum software startup Sandbox AQ today debuted Sandwich, an open-source framework designed to help developers build more secure applications. SandboxAQ, officially SB Technology Inc., spun out of Alphabet Inc. last year. It went on to raise $500 million from a group of prominent investors. The startup counts Salesforce Inc. founder Marc Benioff’s TIME Ventures ...
Simon Data reels in $54M for its AI-powered customer data platform
Simon Data Inc., a startup with a platform that combines the features of an analytics tool and marketing automation software, has secured $54 million in new funding. The capital was raised through a Series D round that the startup announced today. Macquarie Capital was the lead investor. Multiple returning backers, among them Polaris, .406 Ventures ...
Elon Musk-backed Neuralink raises $280M in additional funding
Neuralink Corp., a brain chip startup co-founded by Elon Musk, has raised $280 million in new funding. San Francisco-based Neuralink disclosed the investment this morning. It stated that the lead investor in the round was Founders Fund, a venture capital firm affiliated with Peter Thiel. The startup is believed to have raised more than $640 ...
Zoom clarifies its AI data collection practices after updated service terms draw scrutiny
Zoom Video Communications Inc. today stated that it doesn’t train artificial intelligence models on users’ video, audio or chat messages unless it receives permission to do so. The clarification came in response to media reports about a recently noticed change to the company’s terms of service. The change, which rolled out in March, gave Zoom permission ...