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Google reportedly invests $1B+ in OpenAI rival Anthropic
Google LLC is investing more than $1 billion in Anthropic PBC, the Financial Times reported today. The cash infusion comes on top of the $2 billion that Google has already provided to the artificial intelligence developer. Separately, Anthropic is said to be raising $2 billion from a group of institutional investors led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. ...
Databricks completes $10B funding round, raises $5.25B in debt
Databricks Inc. has closed the mammoth $10 billion funding round it announced last month. The company disclosed the milestone today alongside the completion of a new $5.25 billion debt raise. JPMorgan Chase led the latter deal with participation from Barclays, Citi and other financial institutions. Reports of Databricks’ funding round first emerged in November. At ...
Perplexity launches Sonar API for building applications with search capabilities
Perplexity AI Inc. today introduced an application programming interface that will enable developers to embed search features into their applications. The API is available in two editions: Sonar and Sonar Pro. Both use the company’s Sonar series of large language models to process search queries. The API’s release comes two months after Perplexity reportedly raised ...
HPE investigating potential breach after hacker claims to steal data
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is investigating a potential breach of its network after a hacker offered to sell data purportedly stolen from the company. TechCrunch reported the cyberattack today, citing a post on a cybercrime forum dated Jan. 16. In the post, a hacker with the username “IntelBroker” is offering to sell data stolen from ...
Trump suspends TikTok ban, signs tech-focused executive orders
President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that suspends the U.S. government’s ban of TikTok for 75 days. The directive was included in a batch of technology-focused executive orders that Trump signed late Monday. Another renamed the United States Digital Service, a government office that helps maintain federal websites, and granted it new responsibilities. ...
CubeFS storage platform graduates from CNCF incubation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today announced that CubeFS, an open-source storage platform, has graduated from its incubation program. The milestone follows several years of development. Open-source projects exit the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s incubation program after they reach a level of reliability that makes them suitable for production use. According to the group, CubeFS ...
DeepSeek open-sources its R1 reasoning model series
DeepSeek today released a new large language model family, the R1 series, that’s optimized for reasoning tasks. The Chinese artificial intelligence developer has made the algorithms’ source-code available on Hugging Face. The LLM lineup is headlined by two algorithms called R1 and R1-Zero. According to DeepSeek, the former model outperforms OpenAI’s o1 across several reasoning ...
Cybersecurity startup Tenex launches with an AI-powered cloud MDR service
Cybersecurity startup Tenex.AI Inc. launched today with a managed detection and response service powered by artificial intelligence. The company is backed by an undisclosed amount of funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Shield Capital and a group of angel investors. Tenex is led by co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Eric Foster. He was previously the president of ...
Instabase raises $100M for its AI-powered unstructured data platform
Data management startup Instabase Inc. today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding to support its product development efforts. The Qatar Investment Authority led the Series D round. Returning investors Greylock Partners, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures participated as well. Bloomberg reported that the investment values Instabase at $1.24 billion, below the ...
Nexos.ai reels in $8M to simplify enterprise AI projects
Nexos.ai, a new startup that helps enterprises run large language models in production, launched today with $8 million from investors. Index Ventures led the funding round. It was joined by Creandum, Dig Ventures and the chief executives of several major tech firms. The list includes Datadog Inc., Wix.com Ltd., financial technology company Klarna Bank AB ...