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Pokemon Go developer Niantic lays off 230 workers and closes LA Studio
The maker of the augmented reality “Pokemon Go” game, Niantic Inc., will lay off about a quarter of its workforce, or 230 employees, the company said in an email shared Thursday with employees by Chief Executive John Hanke. Niantic will also be closing its Los Angeles-based game studio, as well as sunsetting its AR basketball ...
Tabnine unveils AI-powered coding chatbot for software developers
Tabnine Ltd., the maker of an artificial intelligence code completion tool for developers, today unveiled an enterprise-grade code-centric chatbot powered by generative AI that will allow developers to write, update and understand their code in new ways. The new tool, named “Tabnine Chat,” uses Tabnine’s own in-house large language models and runs inside the company’s ...
Inflection, Runway and Stability get new funding as capital pours into generative AI startups
Venture capital continues to pour into the generative artificial intelligence industry as the popularity of chatbots and image-generating AI continues to grip enterprise interests. Today several generative AI startups received funding, including the chatbot startup Inflection AI Inc., the AI-powered video generator startup Runway AI Inc. and text-to-image generator Stability AI Ltd. Inflection AI, an ...
Google reportedly ends ‘Iris’ augmented reality glasses project
Google LLC has ended a project to build a pair of augmented reality glasses, according to a report Monday from Business Insider, citing multiple people familiar with the matter. The project, known internally as “Project Iris,” was first reported in January 2022 by The Verge and described a device that was “still early in development” and ...
Fly.io raises $70M to help developers launch apps closer to users
Fly.io, a cloud infrastructure company that runs app servers and databases close to end users, today announced that it has raised $70 million in new funding to add new features and expand its global footprint. EQT Ventures led the Series C funding round with participation from Dell Technologies Capital and existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and ...
Slang.ai raises $20M to bring the power of voice AI to retailers and restaurants
Slang.ai, a company that provides a voice-enabled phone answering service powered by generative artificial intelligence, emerged from stealth mode today with $20 million in funding to deliver a better experience for customers calling retail establishments and restaurants. With Slang’s solution, brick-and-mortar businesses don’t need to worry about missed phone calls going to voicemail anymore. They are ...
AI rivalry heats up as Baidu and DeepMind aim for OpenAI’s top spot
The power of generative artificial intelligence chatbots to talk like humans and perform knowledge tasks has taken the world by storm, but none has gotten as much attention as OpenAI’s LP’s ChatGPT. Now, that popularity has brought both new contenders for OpenAI’s crown and new claims of superiority. At the front of the pack, Google ...
Airtable launches beta program for no-code AI-powered app deployment
Airtable, a no-code platform for building workflows and apps, today announced that it’s launching a beta program and expanding access to Airtable AI, allowing enterprises to develop and deploy generative artificial intelligence applications for business workflows and productivity. Using Airtable AI, companies will be able to integrate generative AI across their organizations and workflows without ...
Snowflake and Nvidia partner to let businesses use their own data to build custom AIs
Snowflake Inc. and Nvidia Corp. announced a team-up today during Snowflake Summit 2023 that will provide customers a way to build custom generative artificial intelligence applications more easily using their own data within a secure cloud environment. Many enterprises see generative AI as a type of assistant, using it to augment employee knowledge by having ...
Databricks acquires generative AI startup MosaicML in $1.3B deal
Big-data and machine learning software provider Databricks Inc. said today that it will acquire the generative artificial intelligence startup MosaicML Inc. in a deal worth $1.3 billion, with a goal to make open-source AI models more accessible to enterprise businesses. The acquisition comes at a time when generative AI is capturing the attention of every ...