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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Amazon invests $100M in new Generative AI Innovation Center to accelerate solution development
As enterprise businesses and startups continue to embrace generative artificial intelligence, Amazon Web Services Inc. furthered its investment in the technology today with the announcement of its Generative AI Innovation Center, a new program aimed at helping customers build and deploy AI …
Apple Vision Pro SDK out now with in-person developer labs coming next month
Developers can get a head start on building apps for Apple Inc.’s much-anticipated mixed-reality Apple Vision Pro headset today with newly released developer tools that will allow them to develop for visionOS, the spatial operating system that it runs on. Apple unveiled …