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Neurologyca, a company working on human-centric artificial intelligence, announced the launch of a research division on Tuesday dedicated to advancing AI models’ ability to understand and adapt to people. The research lab, named Neurologyca Labs, will formalize the scientific development of the company’s …
TwelveLabs raises $100M to bring superintelligence to AI video models
TwelveLabs Inc., the developer of generative artificial intelligence foundation models that can understand videos like humans, today announced it has raised $100 million in early funding to expand beyond simple understanding to achieve holistic intelligence. The Series B round was co-led by NEA and NAVER …
China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips
Beijing, China-based Meituan Inc. today debuted its next-generation LongCat-2.0 open-source large language model, stating that the company trained the 1.6-trillion-parameter model on domestic Chinese chips and compute clusters. The larger takeaway for this colossal model isn’t just the open-source release, it’s the …
AWS launches forward-deployed engineering team to speed enterprise agentic AI adoption
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s rolling out a new dedicated organization to bring agentic artificial intelligence systems, built on the same technology, to customers by embedding engineers in enterprise customer operations. Backed by a $1 billion investment, the dedicated Forward …
Queue raises $12.6M to launch ‘fully robotic pharmacy’ kiosk to make picking up meds more convenient
Queue, a company building an autonomous “robotic” pharmacy kiosk that dispenses medication, today announced that it has raised $12.6 million in seed funding led by AlleyCorp. The company is launching today with $18.6 million under its belt, which includes today’s seed round …
Build raises $8.5M to accelerate industrial infrastructure development project work
Build Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven startup that automates complex industrial real estate development management projects, today announced it has raised an $8.5 million seed round led by Index Ventures. Pebblebed, Puzzle Ventures and Tiny.vc also participated in the round. A range of …
Chinese robotics outfits AI2 Robotics and X Square Robots each secure funding at $2.8B valuation
Two Chinese general-purpose and embodied artificial intelligence firms, AI2 Robotics and X Square Robots, today announced funding rounds that pushed their respective valuations beyond 50 billion RMB, or about $2.8 billion. These Chinese firms continue to push the envelope in developing the …
Runpod raises $100M to build the leading cloud platform for AI developers
Artificial intelligence developer-centric cloud provider Runpod Inc. announced Wednesday that it has raised $100 million in early-stage funding, pushing the valuation of the company to $1 billion. The Series A funding, led by Summit Partners, brings the company’s total funding to $122 million …
TrueFoundry acquires MLOps pioneer Seldon AI to accelerate enterprise agentic AI
TrueFoundry Inc., a startup providing management for artificial intelligence workloads, announced Wednesday that it has acquired open-source, cloud-agnostic enterprise machine learning platform Seldon Technologies Ltd. for an undisclosed price. The company provides the infrastructure needed to run AI models in production without …
Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment
Salesforce Inc. is launching a new prepackaged artificial intelligence agent for customer service, enabling organizations to build and deploy AI agents quickly. Today Salesforce announced Help Agent, a prebuilt service agent set atop the Agentforce platform. It can be connected to company …