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Snap opens up its AR tools to retailers and enterprise businesses
Snap Inc., the company behind the video-messaging app Snapchat, today announced it’s launching a new division that will offer its augmented reality solutions to retailers and businesses so they can integrate them into their apps. Augmented Reality Solutions for Business, or ARES, will allow businesses to adapt Snap’s AR features for their apps and websites ...
Character.AI personalized chatbot service raises $150M at $1B valuation
Character.AI, a company that allows people to personalize their own artificial intelligence chatbots, today said it has raised $150 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. Character AI’s platform allows users to create their own chatbots that can take on the personalities of different characters, thus the name, ...
Magic Eden launches Bitcoin NFT Ordinal marketplace
Magic Eden, a cross-chain nonfungible token marketplace, announced Tuesday that it’s expanding to integrate Bitcoin NFT Ordinal inscriptions into its marketplace, which will allow users to buy and sell the new digital collectibles. Bitcoin Ordinals are a new type of nonfungible token, or NFT, that can be “inscribed” on the Bitcoin blockchain. They are a ...
Mozilla launches Mozilla.ai with $30M in funding to focus on ‘trustworthy AI’
Mozilla Corp., the company behind the Firefox browser, today announced that it’s launching a new startup focused on building “trustworthy” artificial intelligence called Mozilla.ai with $30 million in funding. The newest wave of AI has been changing the face of the internet with an explosion of popularity in what artificial intelligence can do. Examples include ...
Microsoft and Adobe introduce AI image generator tools as competition heats up
Artificial intelligence art generators have become ever more popular with the introduction of OpenAI LP’s DALL-E and Midjourney, which take text prompts and turn them into beautiful, often surreal artwork — and today, two major companies joined the party. Microsoft Corp. announced today that it’s bringing the power of AI image generation, powered by the ...
Nvidia builds out its Omniverse ecosystem to support the automotive metaverse
Nvidia Corp.’s hyper-realistic real-time 3D graphics collaboration and simulation platform Omniverse got a number of improvements and partnerships today during its virtual GTC conference to support automotive manufacturers and the industrial metaverse. Nvidia Omniverse acts as a “metaverse” simulation platform for developers, artists and engineers to visualize and generate 3D models of projects. They act and ...
Nvidia brings on new advances in robotics and computer vision AI
Nvidia Corp. is expanding its tools for robotics and the artificial intelligence that power them through improvements to the platforms that developers and engineers use to train and deploy autonomous machines in factories, offices and cities. At GTC 2023, the company’s virtual developer conference starting today, Nvidia said that Omniverse Cloud would be hosted on ...
Wingtra raises $22M as its survey drones soar to new heights
Wingtra AG, a leading manufacturer of fixed-wing drones capable of vertical takeoff and landing, today announced that it has raised $22 million in new funding as the company expands its drone solutions and operations globally. The Series B round was joined by DiamondStream Partners, EquityPitcher Ventures, Verve Ventures, Ace & Co. and the European Innovation ...
BitGo fixes critical flaw in Ethereum wallet software discovered by Fireblocks
Enterprise cryptocurrency wallet BitGo Inc. today patched a critical flaw that could have exposed users’ Ethereum private keys after researchers at the digital asset custody firm Fireblocks Inc. discovered the exploit. The researchers found the vulnerability and notified BitGo in December, the team said, which affected the company’s implementation of its Ethereum TSS enabled self-managed ...
Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum launches token and Layer 3 blockchains
Offchain Labs Inc., the developer of the Ethereum blockchain scaling solution Arbitrum, announced today that it will airdrop, or give away for free to select people, its new token $ARB, a new cryptocurrency that would be used for voting on two of its blockchain products. The company also announced the launch of the Arbitrum Foundation ...
