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Meta releases AI models for motion rendering and video watermarking
Meta Platforms Inc. has released two artificial intelligence models that can be used to generate motion animations and video watermarks. The algorithms, Motivo and Video Seal, became available on Thursday. The Facebook parent also introduced two internally developed neural network architectures. One of them, a technology called LCM, is touted as a new approach to ...
Microsoft releases Phi-4 language model trained mainly on synthetic data
Microsoft Corp. has developed a small language model that can solve certain math problems better than algorithms several times its size. The company revealed the model, Phi-4, on Thursday. The algorithm’s performance is notable mainly because of the way it was built: Microsoft trained Phi-4 mostly on synthetic, or machine-generated, data rather than web content ...
Archer Aviation raises $430M, partners with Anduril to develop military aircraft
Archer Aviation Inc., a flying taxi manufacturer, today announced that it has raised $430 million in funding to develop a military aircraft. The company also detailed a partnership with Anduril Industries Inc., another well-funded startup active in the defense sector. The collaboration will reportedly focus on Anduril’s artificial intelligence software. Santa Clara, California-based Archer is ...
Google debuts Android XR operating system for VR and AR devices
Google LLC today debuted Android XR, a new operating system for virtual reality and augmented devices. The software will initially ship with headsets. Down the road, Google will also enable hardware partners to integrate Android XR into smart glasses. The search giant has already developed several prototype glasses internally as part of an initiative called ...
Software maker ServiceTitan rockets 42% in stock market debut
Shares of ServiceTitan Inc. jumped 42% in their trading debut today after the company raised about $625 million through its initial public offering. The listing marks the first major tech IPO since Rubrik Inc. floated on the NYSE in April. ServiceTitan, which makes software for trade businesses, sold 8.8 million shares for $71 apiece. That’s well above ...
SkySQL nabs $6.6M for its AI-integrated cloud database
SkySQL Inc., a startup with a cloud-based relational database service, today disclosed that it has raised $6.6 million in seed funding. Eniac Ventures, Good Capital and WTI provided the capital. SkySQL launched last year after spinning out from MariaDB plc, a company that commercializes a popular open-source database of the same name. The software is ...
RapidCanvas raises $16M to streamline data science projects with AI agents
Data science startup RapidCanvas Inc. today announced that it closed a $16 million funding round led by Peak XV,. Titanium Ventures, Accel and Valley Capital Partners also contributed to the investment, which brings the company’s total raised since launch to more than $23.5 million. RapidCanvas was founded in 2021 by Chief Executive Officer Rahul Pangam ...
Google Cloud moves its AI-focused Trillium chips into general availability
Google LLC’s cloud unit today announced that Trillium, the latest iteration of its tensor processing unit artificial intelligence chip, is now generally available. The launch of the TPU comes seven months after the search giant first detailed the custom processor. It offers up to three times the inference throughput of Google’s previous-generation chip. When used for ...
Software testing startup LambdaTest raises $38M in Qualcomm-backed round
LambdaTest Inc., a startup with software for finding technical issues in applications, today announced that it has raised a $38 million funding round. Avataar Ventures led the investment with participation from Qualcomm Ventures. The cash infusion follows a $45 million raise in 2022. According to LambdaTest, its total outside funding now stands at $108 million. A ...
Microsoft previews new water-efficient data center design
Microsoft Corp. has previewed a new data center design that will significantly reduce the amount of water necessary to cool its servers. Steve Solomon, the company’s vice president of data center infrastructure engineering, detailed the technology in a Monday blog post. Water absorbs a significant amount of heat from the surrounding air when it evaporates. ...