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Amazon launches Q AI assistant alongside an AI app generator
Amazon Web Services Inc. today made its Amazon Q generative artificial intelligence assistant generally available for developers and business users that will allow them to debug code and automate business tasks. Alongside these announcements, the company also unveiled a new Amazon Q Apps feature, in preview, that will allow noncoders to create applications with conversational prompts. AWS unveiled Amazon Q in November in preview ...
Secure browser Island raises $175M, doubling valuation to $3B
Island Technology Inc., the developer of a secure enterprise browser of the same name, today announced it has raised $175 million in a late-stage funding. The Series D round was led by new investor Coatue and existing investor Sequoia Capital. It doubles the company’s valuation from a year ago to $3 billion. To date, the startup has raised $487 ...
Salesforce rolls out Tableau platform data updates and AI infrastructure improvements
Salesforce Inc. has rolled out data visualization and AI infrastructure improvements for its Tableau Software platform today that increase the usability of its product for data analysts and expand its scalability for artificial intelligence. The company noted that according to its own research, only 30% of workers use data to make business decisions. Tableau is a visual ...
Movement Labs raises $38M to add Facebook’s Move to Ethereum blockchain
San Francisco-based blockchain development team Movement Labs announced Thursday it has raised $38 million in Series A funding to support the company’s work to bring Facebook’s Move language virtual machine to Ethereum, which will help address security and scaling issues. Led by Polychain Capital, the investment round attracted participation from venture capital firms including Hack VC, Robot Ventures, Figment Capital, Nomad Capital, Bankless ...
Carv raises $10M to build blockchain data layer for gaming and AI
Los Angeles-based startup Carv, a modular blockchain-based layer for gaming and artificial intelligence, today announced that it has raised $10 million in new funding to build out its network solution to give users control of their data and identity. Carv uses blockchain technology in multiple ways, one of which is through the Carv Protocol, which is a data layer ...
Augmented reality creation platform Trace launches with $2M
Trace, a location-based augmented reality creation platform, today announced its launch with $2 million in funds led by Rev1 Ventures and Impellent Ventures to make it simple for businesses to bring their content into the virtual world. The startup’s oversubscribed pre-seed round was also joined by Everywhere Ventures, the Ohio Innovation Fund, Portland Seed Fund, Allied Venture Partners, Service Provider Capital, ...
Salesforce makes its Einstein Copilot generative AI assistant generally available
Salesforce Inc. today announced that its customizable generative artificial intelligence conversational assistant Einstein Copilot is now generally available for every Salesforce application along with a few new capabilities that enhance its ability to execute actions automatically. Einstein Copilot integrates with Salesforce and pulls data and metadata directly from enterprise corporate clouds, providing it the context to understand what users are doing so that ...
Parloa nabs $66M for AI-powered customer service platform
Berlin-based artificial intelligence customer service automation platform Parloa GmbH said today it has raised $66 million in early-stage funding to build out its contact center AI capabilities and expand into new markets. The Series B funding round was led by Altimeter Capital, with participation from new and existing investors including EQT Ventures, Newion, Senovo, Mosaic Ventures and La Famiglia Growth. Today’s raise brings ...
FlexAI launches with $30M in seed funding to unlock ‘universal compute’ for AI workloads
Paris-based artificial intelligence startup FlexAI launched today with $30 million in seed funding, led by Alpha Intelligence Capital, Elaia Partners and Heartcore Capital, to build its on-demand infrastructure for AI workloads. The startup’s flagship product is an on-demand service that allows developers access to various cloud providers for training and deploying AI models arriving later this year. Similar to ...
Perplexity AI lands $63M funding for generative AI search at $1B valuation
The generative artificial intelligence search engine startup Perplexity AI today announced it raised $62.7 million in new funding that doubles its valuation since its last round to more than $1 billion. The investment was led by Daniel Gross, former head of AI at Y Combinator, with participation from new investors Stanley Druckenmiller, Y Combinator Chief ...