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Tavus introduces family of AI models to power real-time human face-to-face interaction
Tavus Inc., an artificial intelligence research startup developing models for real-time AI technology that can mimic the experience of talking to another person, today announced the release of a family of AI models that push the envelope. The company said it’s building what it calls an operating system for human-AI interaction with its “Conversational Video ...
QuantWare raises €20M to scale quantum processors for next-gen computing
Dutch quantum hardware company QuantWare B.V. said Tuesday it has raised €20 million, or about $21.5 million, in an early-stage funding round. The money from the Series A round will be used to build out its chip fabrication facilities, in which it will roll out its technology to help solve scaling bottlenecks that limit the size ...
Salesforce lets AI agents run in the background with Agentforce 2dx launch
Salesforce Inc. today launched Agentforce 2dx, the next iteration of its platform for artificial intelligence agents, which allows agents to act proactively based on changes, function autonomously and interact with users more efficiently. Additionally, Salesforce unveiled development tools for both developers and business users. The toolset enables faster building, customization, testing and deployment of Agentforce ...
AI agent knowledge development platform LlamaIndex raises $19M
LlamaIndex, an artificial intelligence agent development platform that automates knowledge ingestion and work for enterprise data, today announced it has raised $19 million in an early-stage funding. The Series A round was led by Northwest Venture Partners with participation from existing investor Greylock. The company also announced the launch and general availability of its cloud-based ...
Momentic raises $3.7M to redefine software testing with AI
Momentic Inc., an artificial intelligence-powered testing and quality assurance platform for software developers, said today it has raised $3.7 million in seed funding. FundersClub, General Catalyst, Y Combinator and AI Grant participated in the round alongside prominent angels including the Box Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Aaron Levie and Richard Aberman, co-founder of WePay Inc. ...
Salesforce launches AI agent skills marketplace with 200+ initial partners
Building on its ongoing focus on artificial intelligence agents, Salesforce Inc. announced today the launch of AgentExchange, a trusted marketplace that allows enterprise customers to expand the capabilities of Agentforce AI agents. Using Agentforce, companies can deploy highly customizable generative AI agents that operate autonomously, augmenting employee work. The platform enables developers to create AI ...
Open-source vector database Qdrant expands enterprise cloud AI features
High-performance open-source vector database Qdrant has added new enterprise-level security and management tools to its cloud offering, allowing companies to deploy and scale up artificial intelligence applications. With today’s announcement, Qdrant Cloud, the company’s managed cloud-based vector database, has added simplified management for clusters, cloud role-based access controls, database application programming interface keys for granular control, ...
Tencent releases new AI model it says is faster than DeepSeek-R1
Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. today released a new artificial intelligence model named Hunyuan Turbo S, designed as a “fast-thinking model,” a rival to so-called “slow-thinking” models such as DeepSeek-R1. The company explained the model is capable of near “instant replies” within a second by doubling the output speed and cutting the delay of ...
Amazon debuts its first quantum chip ‘Ocelot’ prototype with novel architecture
Amazon Web Services Inc. today unveiled its first quantum computing chip and said it represents the first generation of hardware that implements superior error correction, a barrier that has made scaling up the technology difficult. Ocelot, as the new processor is called, reduces the costs of implementing quantum error correction by up to 90% compared ...
Olas launches decentralized AI marketplace where AI agents can hire each other
Olas, an artificial intelligence agent building and deployment platform for the cryptocurrency industry, today launched a decentralized marketplace for AI agents to offer skills to one another and “hire” other agents. The Mech Marketplace, as the company dubbed its new platform, allows AI agents to fill the gap in agent autonomy by seeking out other ...
