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Cloud management platform Emma raises $17M to scale infrastructure with demand
Emma Technologies, a cloud management platform that helps enterprise businesses optimize and scale their cloud infrastructure, said today it has raised $17 million in early financing to expand the company’s product development and fuel growth. The Series A funding round was led by Smartfin, a European venture capital firm, with participation from RTP Global and existing ...
Varjo launches Teleport, allowing users to capture any scene in VR with an iPhone
Varjo Technologies Oy, a Finnish maker of enterprise-grade virtual and mixed-reality hardware and software, today announced the launch of Teleport, a service that allows users to create high-resolution 3D environments for VR applications using only their smartphones. Recreating real-world scenes for VR from scans has always been a difficult task, requiring high-quality cameras and specialized ...
Wordware raises $30M to reimagine AI development as ordinary writing
Wordware, a San Francisco startup looking to make programming artificial intelligence agents as simple as writing ordinary English sentences, today announced it raised $30 million in seed funding led by Spark Capital. The investment also attracted participation from Felicis, Y-Combinator, Day One Ventures and notable angel investors such as Runway AI Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive ...
Rabbit launches ‘teach mode’ allowing people to create custom agents for its AI mobile device
Artificial intelligence startup Rabbit Inc., the maker of a low-cost AI consumer mobile device that fits in a pocket, today released a way for users to teach its AI assistant to take actions on their behalf on digital interfaces, starting with websites. The new system, called “teach mode,” is being released in beta testing. It ...
Portuguese AI drone startup Tekever raises €70 million to expand operations
Tekever, a Portugal-based developer of an artificial intelligence-driven drone platform, today announced it has raised €70 million, or $74 million, in new funding to scale up production and expand its market reach, especially into the United States. The Series B funding round was led by Baillie Gifford and backed by the NATO Innovation Fund, with ...
Google unveils first developer preview for Android 16, starting a faster release cycle
Google LLC today released the first preview version of Android 16, the next major version of its mobile operation system. Developer previews provide individual developers and teams a first look at the new operating system features and architectural changes. The Google Android team also said this is the beginning of a faster release cycle for ...
Morpheus launches blockchain-based decentralized AI compute project
Morpheus, a blockchain project developing a decentralized artificial intelligence compute network, announced Monday on X that it has launched its platform for empowering AI smart agents. The project’s network is designed as an open-source peer-to-peer platform for general-purpose “personal” generative AI run using blockchain technology. The company said that it intends to use the decentralized nature ...
Microsoft brings developers new tools for AI models and agents at Ignite 2024
Microsoft Corp. today announced the release of new artificial intelligence-powered capabilities for developers to build, customize and deploy autonomous AI agents and apps. Debuted at Microsoft’s annual information technology professional conference Ignite 2024, Copilot Studio autonomous agents are now in public preview, enabling developers to build AI agents to perform advanced business logic tasks based on ...
Cerebras Systems upgrades its inference service with record performance for Meta’s largest LLM model
Cerebras Systems Inc., an ambitious artificial intelligence computing startup and rival chipmaker to Nvidia Corp., said today that its cloud-based AI large language model inference service can run Meta Platforms Inc.’s largest model at almost 1,000 tokens per second. Inference is the process trained AI models use to apply logic and algorithms to streaming data ...
Nvidia launches H200 NVL high-performance GPU to power AI supercomputing
Nvidia Corp. today announced the availability of its newest data center-grade graphics processing unit, the H200 NVL, to power artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. The company announced its new PCIe form factor card during the SC24 high-performance computing conference in Atlanta alongside a bevy of updates to enable high-performance AI for scientific research and engineering. The H200 ...