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Meta to invest $10 billion in Louisiana AI data center
Meta Platforms Inc. said Wednesday it plans to build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center campus in northeast Louisiana, making it the largest data center built by the company to date. The 4 million-square-foot campus, set to be located in Richland Parish, a rural area dominated by farmland with proximity to existing utility infrastructure, ...
Amazon Q unlocks new generative AI capabilities for business users
Amazon Web Services Inc. continues to expand the reach of its generative artificial intelligence assistant Amazon Q by bringing it to more applications for business users. At the company’s re:Invent 2024 conference today, AWS announced a new capability for Amazon Q in QuickSight that will help business users perform lengthy scenario analysis to find answers ...
Amazon introduces Nova family of multimodal AI foundation models
Amazon Web Services Inc., the cloud division of Amazon.com Inc., today announced a new family of multimodal, generative artificial intelligence models called Nova. Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy debuted the new family of models onstage at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. It includes four models focused on text outputs named Micro, Lite, Pro ...
New Relic integrates with Amazon Q Business AI assistant to make observability understandable
Cloud and application observability company New Relic Inc. today announced a new integration between its artificial intelligence capabilities and Amazon Web Service Inc.’s enterprise AI assistant Amazon Q Business. The company said the new collaboration will provide business and information technology workers a new way to quickly deal with operational issues in a way they never ...
AWS enhances Q Developer AI assistant to reduce tedium, accelerate work
To make the lives of developers easier and reduce their workloads, Amazon Web Services Inc. released several updates to the company’s artificial intelligence software development assistant, Amazon Q Developer. New capabilities announced today at AWS re:Invent included AI agents to automate unit testing, writing documentation and producing code reviews to assist developers in building software ...
AWS unveils next-gen Trainium3 custom AI chips and cloud Trainium2 instances
Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled its next-generation custom chip for high-efficiency artificial intelligence training and delivery with Trainium3 and announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered cloud instances that will put high performance AI capabilities in the hands of customers. Amazon revealed Trainium3 today during AWS re:Invent, the company’s annual conference on cloud computing, ...
Google expands Vertex AI with video generator AI model Veo
Google LLC’s cloud division today announced that Veo, Google’s artificial intelligence model that can generate lifelike video from text or images, will be available in private preview for customers via Vertex AI. The company also said that Imagen 3, Google’s highest-quality text-to-image AI model, will be available to all Google Cloud customers globally on Vertex. ...
AI chip startup Tenstorrent raises $693M, deepening rivalry with Nvidia
Artificial intelligence chip making startup Tenstorrent with ambitions of taking on Nvidia Corp. today announced it closed over $693 million in late-stage funding at a pre-money valuation of $2 billion. Samsung Securities and AFW Partners led the Series D funding round. The fundraise also attracted participation from many notable investors including XTX Markets, Corner Capital, ...
Ritual and FLock.io collaborate on decentralized AI model development
Decentralized artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Ritual and blockchain-based federated AI model training project FLock.io, announced a partnership today to improve the development of decentralized AI models. As more AI companies join the industry, decentralized AI has become a trending topic as companies such as OpenAI and Google LLC dominate headlines. Decentralized networks allow users to ...
New startup named /dev/agents led by Ex-Google, Meta tech leaders raises $56M for AI agents
A new artificial intelligence startup co-founded by former Google LLC, Stripe Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. executives named /dev/agents today announced it has raised $56 million in seed funding to build what it calls an operating system for AI agents. The funding was led by Index Ventures and co-led by CapitalG, Alphabet Inc.’s independent growth ...