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AI infrastructure startup Lambda closes $480M investment
Lambda Labs Inc., a startup with a cloud platform optimized to run artificial intelligence models, today announced that it has raised $480 million from investors. The Series D round reportedly values the company at $2.5 billion. It was led by Andra Capital and SGW with participation from more than a dozen other investors. The group ...
Microsoft debuts groundbreaking Majorana 1 quantum chip with topological qubits
Microsoft Corp. today debuted the Majorana 1, an eight-qubit chip that it touts as a major breakthrough in quantum computing. The processor is powered by quasiparticles called Majorana zero modes. Qubits made from such quasiparticles are less susceptible to errors than other quantum circuits. As a result, Microsoft believes Majorana 1’s architecture could hold the ...
Google researchers develop AI co-scientist based on Gemini 2.0
Google LLC today introduced a new artificial intelligence tool designed to help researchers study scientific phenomena more efficiently. The company describes the tool as an AI co-scientist. It’s powered by Gemini 2.0, the latest iteration of Google’s flagship large language model family. The LLMs in the series can process multimodal data and have a tool ...
Securiti and Databricks partner to ease AI application development
Startup Securiti Inc. and Databricks Inc. today announced a partnership focused on helping joint customers develop artificial intelligence applications. The collaboration will see Securiti integrate its Gencore AI tool with two components of Databricks’ popular cloud data platform. The first is the Delta table data format, while the other is the Mosaic AI toolkit for ...
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati launches Thinking Machines Lab
Former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati today launched a new artificial intelligence startup, Thinking Machines Lab Inc., that will develop multimodal models. The company is entering the crowded AI market four months after Reuters reported that Murati (pictured) was in talks to raise more than $100 million for a new venture. Thinking Machines Lab ...
Marketing analytics startup Hightouch reels in $80M at $1.2B valuation
Marketing software startup Hightouch today announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation. Sapphire Ventures led the Series C investment. It was joined by Bain Capital Ventures, which led Hightouch’s previous $38 million funding round, Y Combinator and several other institutional backers. The raise follows a year in ...
Enso launches AI agent marketplace in partnership with LangChain
Enso Technologies Ltd. today launched a marketplace that will enable companies to access artificial intelligence agents for a monthly subscription. The platform is the fruit of a partnership with LangChain Inc., a fellow startup that provides tools for building AI applications. Tel Aviv-based Enso launched last July with $6 million in initial funding from Google ...
Report: Dell close to inking $5B+ AI server deal with xAI
Dell Technologies Inc. could sell more than $5 billion worth of artificial intelligence servers to xAI Corp., Bloomberg reported today. The paper’s sources said that discussions about the potential deal are in an advanced stage. However, they cautioned that the transaction terms could still change. Launched by Elon Musk in March 2023, xAI develops a ...
TikTok returns to US app stores following ban suspension
Apple Inc. and Google LLC late Thursday returned TikTok to their respective app stores following a nearly month-long suspension. The social media platform’s app store listings were removed on Jan. 19 in response to a law the Congress passed last April. The legislation requires TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. to find a buyer for the app ...
Baidu to open-source its Ernie large language model series
Baidu Inc. intends to open-source its Ernie series of large language models later this year. The company, the operator of China’s most popular search engine, announced the plan today. Reuters reported that the initiative centers on an upcoming family of Ernie models dubbed the Ernie 4.5 series. Baidu will start rolling out the LLM series ...