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Lightning AI launches multicloud GPU marketplace to connect developers to compute infrastructure
Lightning AI, a platform that provides tools for developing artificial intelligence and machine learning apps, today announced the launch of its multicloud graphics processing unit marketplace, which will provide AI teams access to on-demand and reserved GPUs. The company said the new GPU marketplace will put the power of AI infrastructure into the hands of ...
Medallion raises $43M to streamline back-office paperwork for healthcare
Medallion, an artificial intelligence-powered platform provider that automates manual back-office management duties, today announced it has raised $43 million in new funding. The funding round was led by Acrew Capital, with participation from more than a half-dozen investors, including Washington Harbour Partners, Sequoia Capital, GV, Spark Capital and NFDG. With this cash injection, the company ...
Grammarly leans into writing assistance agents for students and professionals
Grammarly Inc., the startup best known for its artificial intelligence-powered proofreading and writing productivity software, today announced the launch of nine specialized AI agents designed to assist with writing tasks. The new agents are available within Docs, Grammarly’s AI-native writing surface that embeds intelligent assistance directly into the writing process. The lineup includes agents that surface ...
Nvidia releases massive AI-ready European language dataset and tools
Only a tiny fraction of the more than 7,000 languages on Earth are supported by artificial intelligence models, so today Nvidia Corp. announced a massive new AI-ready dataset and models to support the development of high-quality AI translation for European languages. The new dataset, named Granary, is a massive open-source corpus of multilingual audio, including ...
Sola Solutions raises $17.5M to enhance enterprise process automation
Sola Solutions Inc., an agentic artificial intelligence process automation platform, today announced it has raised $17.5 million in early funding to launch its company. Kimberly Tan and Jennifer Li at Andreessen Horowitz led the Series A funding round. The new funds bring the company’s total raised to $21 million, including a $3.5 million seed round ...
HTC unveils Vive Eagle AI-enabled smart eyewear to take on Meta
HTC Corp., a global company with a focus on immersive technology, today announced the launch of a new line of wearable artificial intelligence-enabled eyewear, the Vive Eagle. The new smart glasses enable users to access AI features, including voice assistance for photography and videography, music playback and photo-based translation. These capabilities are integrated into everyday ...
NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation
The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a new partnership with Nvidia Corp. to develop artificial intelligence models designed to advance scientific research across the country. The collaboration will support the NSF Mid-Scale Research project known as Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science, or OMAI. The project will be led by the Allen Institute for ...
Refold AI raises $6.5M to simplify enterprise software integrations and APIs
Refold AI, an enterprise startup that provides artificial intelligence to automate application programming interface integrations, today announced it has launched with $6.5 million in seed funding. Eniac Ventures and Tidal Ventures co-led the company’s funding round. Better Capital, Ahead VC, Karman Ventures and Z21 also participated in the investment alongside several unnamed angels. Founded in 2023 ...
Perplexity AI makes audacious $34.5B all-cash bid for Google’s Chrome browser
Generative artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc. today offered a bid to purchase Google LLC’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion in an unsolicited all-cash offer. The Wall Street Journal reported that although Perplexity’s offer exceeds the company’s valuation, estimated at $18 billion after its latest funding round, the company said several investors, including “large ...
SiMa.ai launches its next-gen system-on-chip for physical AI into production
Artificial intelligence chip startup SiMa Technologies Inc. today announced it’s shipping its second-gen system-on-chip platform specifically designed for multimodal physical AI workloads. The new chip, named MLSoC Modalix, is intended to be embedded in robots, industrial equipment, vehicles and more. It’s designed for a system-on-module that matches the pin configuration and form factor of leading ...