Kyt Dotson
Latest from Kyt Dotson
Google launches Agentspace to combine AI agents and enterprise search
Google’s LLC’s cloud division today announced the launch of Agentspace, a centralized tool for providing knowledge and expertise for employees, powered by generative artificial intelligence agents that can also take actions on their behalf. The search and data giant focused heavily on how AI agents could use knowledge of enterprise data to deliver information no ...
AI-focused data center startup Crusoe raises $600M at $2.8B valuation
Crusoe Energy Systems LLC, a startup building data centers for artificial intelligence workloads, today announced it has raised $600 million in a late-stage funding round to accelerate its deployment of physical infrastructure. The Series D funding round, which values the company at $2.8 billion, was led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund with participation from Nvidia ...
AI robotics inspection outfit ANYbotics raises $60M to drive expansion
Artificial intelligence-driven robotic inspection solution firm ANYbotics today announced it has raised $60 million to scale up its operations in the United States and globally. ANYbotics builds and develops a specialized autonomous, AI-driven four-legged industrial inspection robot the company calls the ANYmal. Sized and shaped somewhat like a large dog, the robot can maneuver through ...
Apple brings ChatGPT integration to iPhone, iPad and Mac with Apple Intelligence update
Apple Inc. released updates for its iPhone, iPad and Mac software today that include support for OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot alongside other enhancements to the company’s Apple Intelligence AI features. The company announced the release of iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2 and MacOS Sequoia 15.2. In addition to ChatGPT integration, they include image generation features such as ...
Google unveils Gemini 2.0, including 2.0 Flash as the foundation for AI agent experiences
Google LLC today released the first model in the newly released Gemini 2.0 artificial intelligence family, an experimental version of Gemini 2.0 Flash designed to become the foundation for generative AI agents and assistants. Gemini 2.0 Flash builds on the company’s 1.5 Flash, a lightweight workhorse large language model, optimized for speed and efficiency. The ...
Generative AI app testing platform Gentrace raises $8M to make LLM development more accessible
Gentrace, a developer platform for testing and monitoring artificial intelligence applications, said today it has raised $8 million in an early-stage funding round led by Matrix Partners to expand large language model testing product capabilities beyond engineering teams. Today’s Series A funding round attracted participation from Headline and K9 Ventures and brings the company’s total raised ...
DNA-based data storage company Biomemory raises $18M
Biomemory SAS, a company that focuses on developing DNA-based data storage devices, today announced it has raised $18 million in an early-stage funding to complete the development of the first generation of its storage appliance for use in data centers. The Series A round was led by Crédit Mutuel Innovation and was joined by an existing investor ...
Google debuts next-gen quantum computing chip with breakthrough error correction
Google LLC today debuted Willow, its latest state-of-the-art quantum computing chip with novel capabilities that the company says solves a key challenge with error correction at large scale. Quantum computers are important because they have the potential to solve complex problems that could be impossible for classical computing to perform. In the near term, they ...
Meta to invest $10 billion in Louisiana AI data center
Meta Platforms Inc. said Wednesday it plans to build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center campus in northeast Louisiana, making it the largest data center built by the company to date. The 4 million-square-foot campus, set to be located in Richland Parish, a rural area dominated by farmland with proximity to existing utility infrastructure, ...
Amazon Q unlocks new generative AI capabilities for business users
Amazon Web Services Inc. continues to expand the reach of its generative artificial intelligence assistant Amazon Q by bringing it to more applications for business users. At the company’s re:Invent 2024 conference today, AWS announced a new capability for Amazon Q in QuickSight that will help business users perform lengthy scenario analysis to find answers ...