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Alphabet’s X lab shares new details about its Everyday Robots initiative
Alphabet Inc.’s X research lab today provided an update about its Everyday Robots project, which aims to develop robots capable of performing day-to-day tasks such as tidying chairs. The X research lab explores emerging technologies that fall outside the main focus area of parent Alphabet. Before the Everyday Robots project, the lab ran the autonomous ...
DOD invites Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Oracle to bid for JWCC cloud program
The U.S. Department of Defense has asked Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google LLC and Oracle Corp. to submit bids for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability cloud computing procurement program. The decision was made public today. Officials reportedly estimate that the value of the cloud contracts issued through the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program, or JWCC ...
Kyndryl and VMware expand partnership with focus on multicloud environments
Kyndryl Holdings Inc., the former IBM Corp. business that now operates as an independent company, and VMware Inc. are expanding their partnership to help enterprises speed up their cloud initiatives. The companies announced the move today. The partnership expansion comes a few weeks after Kyndryl completed its spinoff from IBM to become an independent firm listed ...
Report: Apple could launch self-driving electric car in 2025
Apple Inc. could bring its long-rumored electric car to market as soon as 2025 and with a “full self-driving system” onboard, Bloomberg reported today. The 2025 target launch date is said to represent an acceleration of Apple’s development roadmap. According to Bloomberg’s sources, some engineers at the company were as of earlier this year planning ...
OpenAI makes GPT-3 more broadly available to developers
OpenAI today broadened availability of its cloud-based OpenAI API service, which enables developers to build applications based on the research group’s sophisticated GPT-3 artificial intelligence model. Previously, developers had to sign up for a waitlist and availability was limited. OpenAI said that the move to make OpenAI API more widely accessible was made possible by ...
No-code workflow automation provider Formstack raises $425M
Workflow automation provider Formstack LLC has raised $425 million to grow its cloud platform, which is used by more than 25,000 companies to help their workers more efficiently manage documents and forms. The investment was announced this morning. Formstack says that growth equity firms Silversmith Capital Partners and PSG provided the funding. PSG previously invested ...
OTA Insight raises $80M to provide business intelligence tools for hotel operators
OTA Insight Inc., a startup with a suite of business intelligence services built specifically for the hospitality sector, today announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round led by growth equity firm Spectrum Equity. London-based OTA insight is also backed by Eight Roads, F-Prime Capital and Highgate Technology Ventures. The startup has raised ...
Google partners with startup Cohere to run AI models on Cloud TPU chips
Google LLC’s cloud business will help Cohere Inc., an early-stage artificial intelligence startup, run natural language processing models in the cloud as part of a multiyear partnership announced today. The partnership has multiple elements. First, Cohere will use Google’s Cloud TPU chips, specialized AI processors that the search giant offers via its public cloud, to ...
Blockchain specialist ConsenSys secures $200M in funding at $3.2B valuation
ConsenSys Software Inc., which provides a cryptocurrency wallet and development tools for building blockchain applications, has raised a $200 million funding round to support growth initiatives. The round values ConsenSys at $3.2 billion, the company said in an announcement today. Among the more than half a dozen participants in the round was the venture capital ...
Upgraded MLPerf HPC benchmark helps measure supercomputers’ AI performance
The MLCommons industry group today detailed an upgraded version of MLPerf HPC, its benchmark suite for measuring how fast a supercomputer can train artificial intelligence models. The group, which is backed by some of the tech industry’s most prominent companies, also shared the results from its latest supercomputer performance contest. The contest was carried out ...