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Information technology service management startup Atomicwork Inc. today announced the launch of an Artificial Intelligence Coworker Marketplace that will give enterprise IT and security teams access to prebuilt, certified AI coworkers that can work alongside employees. The company said these agentic AI …
IBM, AMD and Oak Ridge join forces to launch quantum computing error-correction platform
IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and the Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory today announced a new quantum error-correction platform that integrates quantum and high-performance computing. Gaining high performance and correctness in quantum computing requires protecting quantum information from …
Tencent releases Hy4, a powerful frontier AI model introducing visual understanding and computer use
Tencent Holdings Ltd. today introduced Hy4, a new large language model that adds computer-use capabilities for the first time, using advanced visual understanding, reasoning and tool-calling to deliver long-horizon agentic performance. The company said the model marks a significant leap in performance over its …
LiveX brings engaging, AI-powered intelligent human-sized avatar kiosks to retail and airport sites
Palo Alto-based LiveX AI Inc., a company building interactive experience artificial intelligence agents for retail and hospitality environments, today announced AI City, its kiosk-driven, life-size, human-like AI hosts. The company’s products, currently deployed in more than 100 sites, engage guests through life-sized human …
Snowflake expands agentic AI platform with business context and governance tools
Snowflake Inc. today announced a sweeping collection of artificial intelligence capabilities designed to bring business context, governance and autonomous development into the same environment, as enterprises increasingly hand over software engineering and everyday operations to AI agents. The announcements, during the company’s …
Krafton-backed Ludo Robotics releases robot intelligence model designed around human intent
Ludo Robotics Inc., a subsidiary of major South Korean video game publisher Krafton Inc., today debuted Ludi 0.2, a robotics artificial intelligence system built to understand people and interact with them in the physical world. Headquartered in Palo Alto, Ludo spun out …
Science robotics startup Opentrons raises $40M to standardize laboratory automation
Opentrons Labworks Inc., a leader in artificial intelligence-driven robotic laboratory automation, today announced it has raised $40 million in new funding to scale its robotics, software and data infrastructure tools. Healthcare investor Avego led the Series E round alongside BroadOak Capital Partners. …
Mistral releases open weights for Mistral Large 4, providing sovereign control for the company’s ‘Le Chonk’ AI model
Mistral AI SAS today announced the availability of the open weights of its frontier model Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk,” the company’s most capable large language model to date, initially released in preview three weeks ago. With 1 trillion parameters and …
Crux Labs raises over $6M to improve enterprise agents with human judgment
Crux Labs, an artificial intelligence platform turning enterprise judgment into continuous agent improvement, launched today with over $6 million in funding. Benchstrength and Misneach led the round, with participation from Analog Ventures and Pareto Holdings. The scale of enterprise AI agents in deployment …
Nvidia releases all-in-one adaptable Nemotron 3.5 audio transcription and translation model
Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation, along with an open data pipeline for fine-tuning Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe. Traditional transcription AI models follow a workflow that detects speech, transcribes it, identifies and labels …