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Character.AI, a company that allows people to personalize their own artificial intelligence chatbots, today said it has raised $150 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. Character AI’s platform allows users to create their own …
Magic Eden launches Bitcoin NFT Ordinal marketplace
Magic Eden, a cross-chain nonfungible token marketplace, announced Tuesday that it’s expanding to integrate Bitcoin NFT Ordinal inscriptions into its marketplace, which will allow users to buy and sell the new digital collectibles. Bitcoin Ordinals are a new type of nonfungible token, …
Mozilla launches Mozilla.ai with $30M in funding to focus on ‘trustworthy AI’
Mozilla Corp., the company behind the Firefox browser, today announced that it’s launching a new startup focused on building “trustworthy” artificial intelligence called Mozilla.ai with $30 million in funding. The newest wave of AI has been changing the face of the internet …
Microsoft and Adobe introduce AI image generator tools as competition heats up
Artificial intelligence art generators have become ever more popular with the introduction of OpenAI LP’s DALL-E and Midjourney, which take text prompts and turn them into beautiful, often surreal artwork — and today, two major companies joined the party. Microsoft Corp. announced …
Nvidia builds out its Omniverse ecosystem to support the automotive metaverse
Nvidia Corp.’s hyper-realistic real-time 3D graphics collaboration and simulation platform Omniverse got a number of improvements and partnerships today during its virtual GTC conference to support automotive manufacturers and the industrial metaverse. Nvidia Omniverse acts as a “metaverse” simulation platform for developers, artists …
Nvidia brings on new advances in robotics and computer vision AI
Nvidia Corp. is expanding its tools for robotics and the artificial intelligence that power them through improvements to the platforms that developers and engineers use to train and deploy autonomous machines in factories, offices and cities. At GTC 2023, the company’s virtual …
Wingtra raises $22M as its survey drones soar to new heights
Wingtra AG, a leading manufacturer of fixed-wing drones capable of vertical takeoff and landing, today announced that it has raised $22 million in new funding as the company expands its drone solutions and operations globally. The Series B round was joined by …
BitGo fixes critical flaw in Ethereum wallet software discovered by Fireblocks
Enterprise cryptocurrency wallet BitGo Inc. today patched a critical flaw that could have exposed users’ Ethereum private keys after researchers at the digital asset custody firm Fireblocks Inc. discovered the exploit. The researchers found the vulnerability and notified BitGo in December, the …
Ethereum scaling solution Arbitrum launches token and Layer 3 blockchains
Offchain Labs Inc., the developer of the Ethereum blockchain scaling solution Arbitrum, announced today that it will airdrop, or give away for free to select people, its new token $ARB, a new cryptocurrency that would be used for voting on two of …
Microsoft introduces AI-powered Copilot across Microsoft 365 apps
Microsoft Corp. today announced it’s upgrading its Microsoft 365 suite of workplace productivity tools with Copilot, the company’s generative artificial intelligence-powered assistant, which combines the power of OpenAI LP’s recently announced GPT-4 with business data. Using Microsoft 365 Copilot the AI will be …