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Prolific raises $32M to use people to train and test AI models
Prolific, a company that was founded to source verified data from human participants, said today that it has raised $32 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Partech and Oxford Science Enterprises to broaden its services to use human insights for training and improving artificial intelligence models. With the vast popularity of generative ...
Rocsys raises $36M to grow its AI-powered robotic electric vehicle charging solution
Rocsys, the provider of autonomous robotic chargers for electric vehicles, today announced it has raised $36 million in fresh funding to expand its charging solution to follow the growth in EVs and self-driving vehicles. The company said that SEB Greentech Venture Capital led the Series A funding round with participation from returning investor Forward.One, and ...
Anthropic releases upgraded Claude 2 AI chatbot with improved safety and coding ability
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence research startup that aims to build trustworthy AI models to rival OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT, today released an upgraded version of its Claude chatbot with greatly improved safety and coding capabilities. Claude 2, an upgrade over Claude 1.3, is now available as a beta chat experience for users in the United States ...
Pano AI raises $17M to expand artificial intelligence wildfire detection solution
Pano AI, a company that provides an artificial intelligence solution for the detection of wildfires, today said it has raised $17 million in new funding to expand its network and capabilities to help professionals deal with these natural disasters by helping catch them early. Pano builds a fully managed solution that uses a network of ...
Comedian Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta over copyright infringement
Comedian and author Sarah Silverman and two authors are suing the developer of ChatGPT OpenAI LP and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc., claiming that the companies used copyrighted materials from their books when training their artificial intelligence chatbots. A pair of class action lawsuits have been filed by Silverman, as well as authors Chris Golden and ...
Lightning Labs unveils tools that will allow AI to make bitcoin transactions
Lightning Labs, the developer of the Bitcoin Lightning Network scaling solution, announced Thursday the release of a set of tools to allow the developers to create artificial intelligence chatbots that can send and receive bitcoins. Chatbots such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT have taken the world by storm since its release in November 2022 with conversational ...
Mastercard launches new AI real-time anti-fraud tool in UK
Mastercard Inc. today announced that it has teamed up with nine British banks to combat consumer fraud using a new artificial intelligence solution that can detect scams in real-time and protect customers before money leaves the victim’s accounts. Nine of the biggest banks in the United Kingdom including Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Halifax, Bank of ...
Decentralized social network Bluesky announces $8M seed round and paid service
Decentralized social network Bluesky announced Wednesday that it has raised $8 million in a seed round this summer to support its mission of building decentralized services and an open ecosystem. The round was led by Neo, a community-led venture capital firm that has partners such as Code.org co-founder Ali Partovi and former director of product ...
App analytics company Mixpanel incorporates AI so companies can ‘chat with their data’
Mixpanel Inc., a web, mobile and app analytics platform, today announced it’s incorporating generative artificial intelligence so companies can “chat with their data” and get quicker insights into their customer’s experience. The company’s products provide data analysis for visitors to websites and apps in order to map user behavioral data in order to give marketing ...
Neko Health raises $65M for AI-powered preventative healthcare body scanner
Neko Health, a company headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden that touts an artificial intelligence-powered body scanner and a team of medical doctors and technicians, today announced it has raised €60 million ($65 million) in a funding round to expand its services. The Series A round was led by the investment capital firm Lakestar, with participation from ...