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Meta announces standalone AI app for personalized assistance
Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a new standalone Meta AI app that houses an artificial intelligence assistant powered by the company’s Llama 4 large language model to provide a more personalized experience for users. The company said the new app is built to be more social and is designed with voice features. It has an ...
IXI raises $36.5M to develop the world’s first autofocus eyewear
IXI, a Finnish eyewear hardware company, today announced it has raised $36.5 million in an early-stage funding to develop what it says is the world’s first autofocus lenses for eyewear that adapt to the wearer’s eyes. The Series A round was led by Plural, with participation from byFounders, Heartcore, Eurazeo, FOV Ventures and Tiny Supercomputer, ...
Writer announces Palmyra X5 LLM with 1M-token context window to power AI agents
Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today released its newest state-of-the-art enterprise-focused large language model Palmyra X5, an adaptive reasoning model that features a 1 million-token context window. The company also said that it teamed up with Amazon Web Services Inc. to announce the availability of the new model on Amazon Bedrock, AWS’s fully managed service ...
Lightrun raises $70M to use AI for real-time enterprise software observability and remediation
Artificial intelligence-powered software observability startup Lightrun Inc. announced today it has raised $70 million in a Series B funding led by Accel and Insight Partners to build out its platform that helps developers catch and resolve issues while the software is running. Citi, Glilot Capital, GTM Capital, and Sorenson Capital also participated in the round. ...
Nous Research raises $50M for decentralized AI training led by Paradigm
Nous Research, a decentralized artificial intelligence startup, today said it has raised $50 million in an early-stage round almost entirely funded by the crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm. According to a report from Fortune, the Series A round follows seed rounds totaling $20 million from investors including Distributed Global, North Island Ventures, and Delphi Digital. According to ...
Respondology raises $5M to help brands moderate social media comments
Respondology, the provider of a social media comment moderation and intelligence platform, announced Wednesday it has raised $5 million in new funding. Investors for the A-1 Series round included Iron Gate Capital, SJF Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, Boulder Heavy Industries and RLB Holdings. The round builds on a $11 million Series A raised by the company ...
Adobe unveils new Firefly generative AI models and creative tools
Adobe Inc. is improving its suite of artificial intelligence-powered creative tools with new Firefly generative AI models alongside a newly announced Firefly app. Today at the company’s Max London creativity conference, the company unveiled a new Firefly all-in-one web app for AI-assisted content creation and production that allows creators to generate images, video, audio and ...
ChEmpower raises $18.7M to advance semiconductor chip polishing technology
ChEmpower Corp., a semiconductor materials company providing polish pads and chemical solutions, today announced it has raised $18.7 million in a new early-stage funding for its effort to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and promote sustainability in the chipmaking process. The Series A round was co-led by M Ventures and Rhapsody Venture Partners. The company provides ...
Character.AI unveils AvatarFX to make images into lifelike chatbots
Noted artificial intelligence personalized chatbot service Character.AI Inc. unveiled a new video generation model named AvatarFX on Tuesday that allows users to take images and turn them into lifelike AI chatbots. Available to a limited number of users in closed beta mode, the model can take images and animate them so that they can speak, ...
Endor Labs raises $93M to secure AI-generated code from vulnerabilities
Code and application security startup Endor Labs Inc. today announced it has closed another big funding round, raising $93 million in a Series B funding led by DFJ Growth. New investor Salesforce Ventures and existing backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, Dell Technologies Capital, Section 32, and Citi Ventures also participated in the funding round. ...