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Datawizz raises $12.5M to cut AI costs by routing smaller, smarter models
Datawizz, a company building specialized artificial intelligence language models as an alternative to large general-purpose models, today announced it has raised $12.5 million in a seed funding round. Human Capital led the round, with participation from BGV, 91VC and others. The company said it will use the fresh capital to accelerate product development, expand its ...
Harness acquires Qwiet AI to bring vulnerability detection into DevOps workflows
Harness Inc., a software delivery startup that provides artificial intelligence tools for developers to update and monitor applications as they go, today announced it acquired Qwiet AI, formerly known as ShiftLeft Inc., a leader in agentic AI-powered vulnerability detection and remediation. Harness uses agentic AI to give developers and operations teams, together known as DevOps, ...
Adobe expands Photoshop and Firefly Boards with new generative AI tools and third-party models
Veteran creative software company Adobe Inc. is updating its suite of products with more artificial intelligence models to support professionals where they work. The company announced today that Firefly Boards, an AI-native software workspace for users to explore, iterate and collaborate in real time, will receive new AI generative video models including Runway AI Inc.’s ...
Liquid AI debuts extremely small, high-performance foundation models for on-device processing
Liquid AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup building AI models with a novel architecture that provides high performance for size, today announced a breakthrough in AI training and customization for extremely small models capable of delivering OpenAI GPT-4o-level capability for specialized tasks. The new models, called “Nanos,” run between 350 million and 2.6 billion parameters, ...
Modular raises $250M to simplify AI deployment across hardware
Artificial intelligence startup Modular Inc. said today it has raised $250 million in its third financing round, valuing the company at $1.6 billion. The round was led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology fund, with DFJ Growth joining. All existing investors participated, including Google Ventures, General Catalyst and Greylock Ventures. The funding brings the total ...
Signal AI lands $165M to redefine risk and reputation intelligence
London-based artificial intelligence startup Signal Media Ltd., better known as Signal AI, today announced it has raised $165 million in new growth-equity funding led by Battery Ventures. Following this investment, Battery Ventures will acquire a majority stake in Signal AI and support the company through its next phase of growth. Existing investors Highland Europe, Mercuri ...
Google Cloud debuts new AI tools to boost data science productivity
On a mission to lighten the workload for data scientists, Google LLC’s cloud division today announced a wave of new artificial intelligence tools designed to help them build the next generation of AI agents while supporting their day-to-day work. At Big Data London, an annual data and AI conference, Google Cloud unveiled enhancements to its ...
Prosper AI raises $5M to deliver voice AI agents for healthcare
Prosper AI Inc., a company building voice-enabled artificial intelligence agents purpose-built for healthcare, said today it has raised $5 million in seed funding to support front- and back-office operations across the industry. The round was led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, CRV and Company Ventures. The company builds AI agents capable of ...
Verdent launches an agentic AI coding suite that orchestrates multiple agents
Verdent AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup developing agentic coding tools, today announced the launch of its platform that can plan, self-verify and iterate on complex software development work by guiding multiple agents in parallel. The company was founded by Zhijie Chen, former head of algorithms at ByteDance Ltd.’s short-form video platform TikTok and senior ...
Obot AI raises $35M to help companies manage standardized access for AI agents
Obot AI, an open-source software company building enterprise-ready platforms for the emerging Model Context Protocol standard, said today it has raised $35 million in a seed funding round co-led by Mayfield Fund and Nexus Venture Partners. The company said it intends to use the new capital to accelerate the development of its open-source projects, including ...