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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 ...
Private equity firms reportedly competing to buy cybersecurity provider Trend Micro
Several private equity firms are competing to buy Japanese cybersecurity provider Trend Micro Inc., Reuters reported today. If it materializes, the deal could mark one of the largest enterprise technology acquisitions in recent memory. Trend Micro had a market capitalization of $8.54 billion on Wednesday and a takeover offer is likely to value it higher. ...
Latent Labs raises $50M to develop new proteins with AI
Latent Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence startup focused on the healthcare sector, launched today with $50 million in initial funding. Radical Ventures and Sofinnova Partners jointly led the investment. They were joined by more than a half-dozen other backers, including Google LLC Chief Scientist Jeff Dean. Cohere Inc. Chief Executive Officer Aidan Gomez, a former ...
CyberArk acquires user access management provider Zilla for $175M
CyberArk Software Ltd. has acquired Zilla Security Inc., a startup that helps enterprises manage employee access to internal applications. The companies announced the deal today. CyberArk, a publicly traded provider of cybersecurity software, will pay $165 million in cash and an additional $10 million if certain performance goals are met. Zilla previously raised about $17 ...
OpenAI to launch GPT-5 in a matter of months, GPT-4.5 within weeks
OpenAI plans to release its next flagship artificial intelligence system, GPT-5, in a matter of months. Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman disclosed the launch timing today in a series of posts on X. He also shared other details about the ChatGPT developer’s product roadmap. GPT-5’s debut will be preceded by the release of a less capable ...