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Mistral adds major updates to its AI assistant, mobile apps and high-speed responses
Paris-based artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI rolled out several major updates to its AI assistant Le Chat today, including new features and mobile apps, while overhauling its pricing structure. The new Le Chat has received an upgrade to its web interface and the company also released mobile versions on iOS and Android for smartphone users. ...
Market research AI platform GetWhy raises $8.4M funding
GetWhy A/S, a Copenhagen-based agentic AI-powered consumer research tech platform that helps companies carry out market research studies via video-based interviews, today said it has received 60 million DKK, or about $8.4 million in a debt financing. The money came from CIBC Innovation Banking. Since its founding in 2018, GetWhy has raised $64.5 million, including a ...
Olas raises $13.8M to launch decentralized app store for AI agents
Olas announced Tuesday it has raised $13.8 million to launch Pearl, a blockchain-based decentralized artificial intelligence agent marketplace. The round was led by 1kx with participation from Tioga Capital, Sigil Fund, Zee Prime Capital and Spaceship DAO. Olas, also Autonolas DAO, launched a platform for autonomous AI agents in 2021 within the blockchain and crypto industry. ...
Google expands access to Gemini 2.0 AI models and debuts experimental versions
Google LLC today said it’s expanding its Gemini artificial intelligence model family and increasing the availability of existing models. To start, Google is making an updated Gemini 2.0 Flash generally available in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, the company’s managed machine learning development platform. This follows the company making 2.0 Flash available to all ...
Astra raises $2.7M to simplify cybersecurity by mimicking hacker behavior with AI-powered solutions
Astra Security, a cybersecurity startup specializing in artificial intelligence-driven penetration testing, today announced it has raised $2.7 million in early-stage funding to enhance its AI capabilities and expand its cloud offerings. Launched in 2018, Astra provides a platform that simplifies the cybersecurity process of penetration testing, or pentesting, which is the simulated process of attacking ...
Pipedrive introduces agentic AI teammates for the sales process
Pipedrive, a sales customer relationship management system backed by artificial intelligence, today announced a network of intelligent AI agents that will assist customers at every stage of the sales process like teammates. Pipedrive helps salespeople manage and automate the sales process so that they can focus on leads and strategy. With this new update, the ...
Opera launches web browser focused on well-being and mindfulness
Norwegian web browser developer Opera announced today released a new free browser, Opera Air, that will help users reduce stress through relaxation and mindfulness exercises. “The web is beautiful but it can be chaotic and overwhelming,” said Mohamed Salah, senior director of product at Opera. “We decided to look at science-backed ways to help our ...
Observo reduces observability costs using agentic AI-powered data pipelines with $15M raise
Observo AI, an artificial intelligence-powered data pipeline company that helps companies solve observability and security issues, said Thursday it has raised $15 million in seed funding led by Felicis and Lightspeed Venture Partners. As AI-generated data becomes the norm, enterprise businesses face ever-increasing volumes of observability and operational data, rising to terabytes and petabytes. The ...
D3 raises $25M to put internet domain names on the blockchain
D3 Global, a startup working on a way to bring internet domain names onto the blockchain, said Wednesday it has raised $25 million in an early-stage financing led by venture capital firm Paradigm to make that vision a reality. The Series A round was also joined by Coinbase Ventures, co-founder of Polygon Labs Sandeep Nailwal, ...
Sensitive DeepSeek database exposed to the public, cybersecurity firm Wiz reveals
New York-based cloud cybersecurity firm Wiz Inc. said Wednesday it discovered a sensitive database belonging to popular Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek the company did not properly secure and thus exposed it to the public internet. DeepSeek has gained popular media fame in recent weeks after releasing several groundbreaking AI models, including DeepSeek-R1. According to the ...
