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Patronus AI releases Glider: a small, high-performance AI evaluator model for other models
Patronus AI Inc., a startup that builds tools for companies to detect and fix reliability issues in their large language artificial intelligence models, today announced the launch of a small but mighty AI model that can evaluate and judge the accuracy of much larger models. The company calls its model Glider, a 3.8 billion parameter ...
Smart ring startup Oura nabs $200M at $5.2B valuation
Oura Health Oy, the maker of health-tracking smart device Oura Ring, said today it has raised $200 million in a new late-stage funding, doubling its valuation since 2022 to $5.2 billion. Fidelity Management & Research Co. and DexCom Inc., a global leader in the development of glucose monitoring sensors, participated in the Series D round. ...
AI copilot for game devs Coplay raises $1.2M
Coplay, an artificial intelligence copilot for game developers, said today it has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding to build its game development AI assistant. Failup Ventures led the round, with participation from Tower Research Ventures, Founders Inc., Sequoia Scouts and other investors. Game development can be a tedious task for software engineers, who must ...
SandboxAQ raises $300M at $5.6B valuation to develop AI and quantum technology
SandboxAQ, a company that develops artificial intelligence and quantum sensing technology, announced today that it has raised more than $300 million in new funding at a valuation of more than $5.6 billion to accelerate the development of specialized AI models. Investors participating in the round included former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, Salesforce Inc. founder ...
Grammarly acquires Coda, takes on co-founder Mehrotra as new CEO
Grammarly Inc., the startup best known for its artificial intelligence-powered proofreading software, today announced its intent to acquire the AI productivity platform Coda Project Inc. and bring on Coda’s Chief Executive Shishir Mehrotra as Grammarly’s new CEO. Coda made a name for itself as a productivity suite startup competing with similar products such as Google ...
Nvidia debuts NeMo Retriever microservices for multilingual generative AI
Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of microservices that will allow artificial intelligence engineers to build generative AI applications that can store and retrieve data across multiple languages, allowing them to cross national barriers more readily. To make data retrieval for generative AI across languages more accurate, Nvidia introduced multilingual capabilities using Nvidia NeMo Retriever ...
Nvidia launches Jetson Orin Nano Super, a powerful AI brain for robotics and edge
Nvidia Corp. today launched a new compact generative artificial intelligence developer kit with the Jetson Orin Nano Super, which fits into the palm of a hand and provides commercial AI developers, hobbyists and students access to powerful robotics and edge AI compute at low cost. Nvidia Jetson Orin is a family of compact energy-efficient AI supercomputers ...
Salesforce to launch Agentforce 2.0 to change digital labor for enterprise
Salesforce Inc. Tuesday plans to introduce Agentforce 2.0, an improved version of its flagship AI product for enterprises with significantly improved features merely two months after it released the original. Agentforce provides companies the ability to build and customize generative artificial intelligence agents, which augment the work of employees autonomously without the need for human ...
Liquid AI raises $250M led by AMD to build a new type of generative AI model
Liquid AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup and MIT spinoff developing generative AI models based on a fundamentally different architecture than transformer-based AI, today announced it has raised $250 million in an early-stage funding round led by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. OSS Capital, Duke Capital Partners and PagsGroup also participated in the Series A round. ...
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 ...