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Pryon raises $100M to help enterprises build AI assistants with their data
Pryon Inc. today announced the company raised $100 million in a Series B round led by billionaire Thomas Tull’s U.S. Innovative Technology Fund to accelerate the growth of its platform, which helps enterprises build artificial intelligence assistants that can ingest and understand their vast stores of unstructured data and other knowledge. The company was founded ...
Apple moves to update iPhone 12 in France to address radiation issue
Apple Inc. said today that it will update software on the iPhone 12 in France to address an issue discovered by the country’s government that it may emit high levels of electromagnetic radiation. At the same time, other countries in the European Union have signaled investigations into the phone’s emissions. According to a report from Reuters, ...
Open-source database PostgreSQL 16 brings performance and scaling enhancements
The developer behind the popular open-source PostgreSQL database software, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, today announced the release of PostgreSQL 16 that includes enhancements to security, scaling and performance. PostgreSQL is a relational database management system, also known as Postgres, which is free and open source. It supports both nonrelational and relational data types and ...
Pixis raises $85M to use AI to help marketers orchestrate and analyze campaigns
Pixis, a company that provides artificial intelligence tools for planning and analyzing marketing campaigns, today announced it has raised $85 million in new funding to build out its AI product suite and expand its operations. The Series C1 funding round for the company, incorporated as Aiquire Inc., was led by Touring Capital and brings Pixis’ ...
Alibaba opens Tongyi Qianwen AI model to the public to drive adoption
Chinese e-commerce and technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today announced that it’s opening its Tongyi Qianwen artificial intelligence large language model to the public, making it accessible for developers and enterprise companies to adopt. Tongyi Qianwen was initially unveiled in April as a product of Alibaba DAMO Academy, which developed it as a large ...
Adobe’s Firefly generative AI is now commercially available in Express, Photoshop and Illustrator
Creative software developer Adobe Inc. today announced that it’s making its image generating artificial intelligence models, dubbed Firefly, commercially available across its products through the Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Express after a successful six-month beta test. Adobe introduced Firefly in March describing it as a “family of generative AI models for creative expression” that ...
Howso launches fully auditable and explainable open-source AI engine
Howso, formerly known as Diveplane, the provider of accurate and explainable machine learning models, today announced that it is releasing the Howso Engine into open-source as an alternative to what it calls black box AI libraries in use today. Co-founder and Chief Executive Mike Capps and co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Chris Hazard told SiliconANGLE ...
Apple’s ‘Wonderlust’ event reveals iPhone 15, Apple Watch 9 and new A17 Pro silicon
Apple Inc. today unveiled a powerful new mobile chip called the A17 Pro, based on cutting-edge three-nanometer silicon technology, that will power its new iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max lineup. Alongside the new chip and the “prosumer” phones, the company also announced at its “Wanderlust” press event today the iPhone 15 and ...
Salesforce to bring AI assistant to all of its applications with Einstein Copilot
Salesforce Inc. today rolled out an artificial intelligence conversational copilot assistant for its applications that can assist users in their everyday work alongside a studio that will allow companies to build their own prompts, actions and models. The new generative AI assistant, dubbed Einstein Copilot, integrates directly into Salesforce applications and understands the context of ...
Nvidia debuts new software to boost AI model performance on its high-end chips
Nvidia Corp. today announced a new open-source software suite called TensorRT-LLM that expands the capabilities of large language model optimizations on Nvidia graphics processing units and pushes the limits of artificial intelligence inference performance after deployment. Generative artificial intelligence large language models have become popular thanks to their impressive capabilities and expanded the envelope for ...