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Zoom introduces new AI capabilities and agents with major release
Zoom Video Communications Inc. is upgrading its platform today with agentic artificial intelligence capabilities and skills for its Zoom AI Companion to assist with video call interactions. The company announced AI enhancements to its products including Zoom Meetings, Phone, Team Chat, Docs and Contact Center that will allow AI agents to take complex actions and ...
Google Cloud is helping gaming startups use AI to change the industry
Artificial intelligence is making significant advances in the gaming industry by streamlining development and creating more immersive experiences, from reactive characters to dynamic environments and personalized gameplay. At Game Developer Conference 2025 today, Google Cloud revealed how AI startups and AI-native gaming studios are using its AI architecture to build games in new ways to ...
Cohere releases a low-cost AI model that requires only two GPUs
Artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc. today unveiled Command A, its latest large language model capable of high-performance capabilities for business needs with minimal hardware requirements than competitors’ AI models. The startup touted the LLM as capable of exceeding leading proprietary and open models such as OpenAI GPT-4o and DeepSeek-V3. The company added that in private ...
Arize AI acquires Velvet to expand support for AI observability, LLM evaluation
Artificial intelligence observability and evaluation platform Arize AI Inc. today announced it’s acquiring Velvet, an AI gateway for developers to analyze and monitor AI features in production. Founded in 2020, Arize AI offers tools that assist with detecting AI issues with large language model AI in production, tracing root causes and enhancing overall performance. It’s ...
Bria raises $40M to develop generative AI models trained on licensed data
Bria, a generative artificial intelligence startup platform for developers that uses only licensed data, today announced that it has raised $40 million in early funding to scale up its technology for helping enterprise customers create on-brand images. Red Dot Capital led the Series B funding round with participation from Major Investment, Entrée Capital, GFT Ventures, ...
Cinelytic acquires Jumpcut Media to expand AI-powered entertainment analytics platform
Cinelytic Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence-driven content analytics platform for the entertainment industry, Tuesday announced the acquisition of Jumpcut Media, a firm that builds intellectual property and audience management tools. Cinelytic provides a comprehensive solution for entertainment studios, assisting with filmmaking from script generation to production, evaluation, screening, and distribution. The company’s products ...
Moonvalley introduces a ‘clean’ generative video AI model for cinema and advertising
Moonvalley, a generative artificial intelligence research startup, today announced the launch of a foundation AI model for Hollywood studios, filmmakers and enterprise partners trained on clean sources. During a time when generative AI, especially generative video is trending, it’s becoming more and more difficult to stand out from the crowd. However, Naeem Talukdar, co-founder and ...
Google introduces the Gemma 3 family of accessible lightweight models
Continuing a drive to make its artificial intelligence models more accessible, Google LLC today announced the next generation of its lightweight open-source family of Gemma large language models that can run on a single graphics processing unit. The new Gemma 3 models come in a range of sizes allowing developers to choose among 1 billion, ...
Cerebras announces six new AI accelerator data centers across North America and France
Artificial intelligence chip startup Cerebras Systems Inc. today said it has begun deploying its wafer-scale AI accelerator chips across six new cloud data centers in North America and France to provide ultrafast AI inference. The company also announced a new partnership with Hugging Face Inc., a hub best known for hosting open-source machine learning and ...
Nirvana raises $80M for AI-powered insurance for truck drivers and fleet operators
Nirvana Tech Inc., a startup that blends artificial intelligence with detailed vehicle tracking data to offer insurance to truckers, today announced it has raised $80 million in a Series C funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst with support from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Valor Equity Partners. “Legacy insurers are entrenched ...