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Amazon introduces Kiro powers for cleaner, context-aware AI-driven development
Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced a new feature for Kiro, the company’s artificial intelligence-powered agentic coding environment for software developers, adding new “powers” that bring specialized expertise to the tool. These powers, unveiled at the company’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, load only when needed, providing on-demand augmentation without occupying the model’s context window ...
AWS introduces Nova Forge for training bespoke ‘Novella’ frontier models
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced Nova Forge at AWS re:Invent, a first-of-its-kind service that allows enterprise organizations to train and build their own frontier AI models based on the company’s Nova family. The cloud giant didn’t provide pricing at the outset but told CNBC that it will cost $100,000 a year. Nova itself is ...
Amazon rolls out Nova Act for AI browser agents, combined with 1Password credential security
Amazon.com Inc. today took another step into agentic artificial intelligence with the general availability of Nova Act, a browser-controlling AI system that can independently navigate websites. Initially unveiled in March, Nova Act provides an agentic foundation that allows AI systems to complete tasks in web browsers on behalf of the user: clicking buttons, filling text ...
Nvidia and AWS expand partnership with specialized AI hardware and software
Nvidia Corp. and Amazon Web Services Inc. announced the expansion of the two companies’ collaboration on new chip technology, networking, cloud infrastructure and open models and physical AI. Fueling scale-up in infrastructure and custom silicon, AWS said at its re:Invent conference today that it would support Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion, a custom central processing unit and ...
Soxton emerges with $2.5M to build lawyer-in-the-loop AI for startup legal work
Soxton AI, an artificial intelligence-first law firm targeting early-stage founders and startups, launched today with $2.5 million in preseed funding. The round was led by Moxxie Ventures, with participation from Strobe, Coalition, Caterina Fake and Flex. Founded by Chief Executive Logan Brown, a Harvard graduate and former lawyer at Cooley LLP, Soxton seeks to democratize ...
Tutor Intelligence raises $34M to scale fleet of AI-powered warehouse robots
Tutor Intelligence Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-powered warehouse robot workers, said today it has raised $34 million in early funding to accelerate the commercialization of its state-of-the-art intelligent robot fleet. The Series A capital round was led by Union Square Ventures, with the additional participation of Fundomo and Neo. Today’s funding brings the total ...
Digital bank Klarna launches stablecoin amidst rising crypto adoption
Klarna Bank AB, a global digital bank and payments provider, today launched KlarnaUSD, the company’s first stablecoin. Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency that pin their token value to traditional currency, in this case, U.S. dollars, so that individual tokens remain $1. Unlike cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, stablecoins remain “stable” in value and due to this ...
Cerrion raises $18M to support industrial automation with intelligent vision agents
Artificial intelligence video platform Cerrion AG today announced it has raised $18 million in early-stage funding to expand and scale operations across factories in Europe and the United States. The Series A round was led by leading early-stage venture firm Creandum, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders and Session VC. Cerrion ...
Kneron’s new AI chip brings LLM performance out of the cloud and onto devices
San Diego-based startup Kneron Inc., an artificial intelligence company pioneering neural processing units for the edge, today announced the launch of its next-generation KL1140 chip Founded in 2015, Kneron is a leader in edge AI that designs reconfigurable chips and software to process large language models and AI algorithms directly on devices rather than in ...
Amazon announces $50B investment to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for US government
Amazon.com Inc. today announced it plans to invest up to $50 billion to expand artificial intelligence and high-performance supercomputing infrastructure for the United States government. The massive investment will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI and supercomputing power across Amazon Web Services’ Top Secret, AWS Secret and AWS GovCloud through the construction and expansion of ...