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Nvidia announces new robot AI learning and simulation tools
Nvidia Corp. today announced the release of new tools for developers working on artificial intelligence-enabled robots, including humanoids, that enable faster development cycles using simulation, blueprints and modeling. The company announced the new tools this week at the annual Conference for Robot Learning, a gathering focusing on the intersection of robotics and machine learning held ...
AI startup Physical Intelligence raises $400M to create a brain for any robot
Physical Intelligence, a startup researching practical artificial intelligence models to create “brains” for robots, announced today it has raised $400 million in new funding. The New York Times broke the news that the round was led by Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon.com Inc., Thrive Capital and Lux Capital. Other investors participating in ...
Salesforce’s MuleSoft helps businesses create real-time AI agents with AsyncAPI support
Salesforce Inc.’s MuleSoft integration platform today announced support for a new event-driven application programming interface tool that will empower enterprise organizations to build artificial intelligence agents with real-time data. Now in general availability, the MuleSoft support is for AsyncAPI, an industry-standard open-source initiative designed to provide connections for delivering real-time data through event-driven architectures. Using this standard, ...
Blockchain firm Axal nabs $2.5M to build verifiable autonomous agent network
Axal, a blockchain company developing a network of autonomous agents, announced today it has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding led by CMT Digital. The funding round also saw participation from a16z Crypto Startup School, Escape Velocity, IDG Vietnam, Artichoke Capital, Trident Digital, Blockchain Builders Fund, Blockhunters Group, Echo and the Mentat Group. Axal is ...
Gemini in Android Studio rolls out more AI-powered development features
Google LLC today unveiled more features for Android Studio, its toolkit for building Android apps, powered by its Gemini artificial intelligence model. Gemini in Android Studio rolled out as an AI upgrade for Android Studio, a type of software editor, in May. It brought Google’s flagship model to the development tool, providing developers the ability to ...
Google brings grounding with search to Gemini in AI Studio and API
Google LLC today announced it’s rolling out “grounding” for its artificial intelligence Gemini models using Google Search, which will enable developers to get more accurate and up-to-date responses aided by search results. The new updates are available for AI Studio and the Gemini API. They permit the model to provide not just more accurate responses, but ...
Data privacy-focused Nillion network raises $25M to expand decentralized solutions
Nillion today announced it has raised $25 million in a new funding round for its trust-sensitive computation network, which focuses on decentralized networking with an optional blockchain component. The round was led by Hack VC, with additional support from Distributed Global and Hashkey. Angel investors and strategic contributors from projects including Arbitrum, Worldcoin and Sei ...
Diffblue raises $6.3M for autonomous AI-powered test generation platform
Diffblue Ltd., the maker of an autonomous generative artificial intelligence code test platform, said today it secured $6.3 million in new funding to build on its differentiated approach to generating unit tests for Java. The new capital came as an extension to the company’s Series A funding round, joined by existing investors IP Group, Parkwalk ...
Amazon Q introduces AI-powered inline chat directly in the code editor for developers
Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Web Services Inc.’s artificial intelligence software development assistant, today announced support for inline chat that combines the ability to invoke assistants within software editors and update code, enabling developers to describe their needs directly and receive responses. Many AI software development tools work as inline code completion and as chat tools ...
Tabnine unveils AI developer ‘coach’ with personalized code review agent
Artificial intelligence code assistant developer Tabnine Ltd. today unveiled a new AI software validation agent designed to help developers produce higher quality, more secure code by enforcing best practices called the Code Review Agent. As developers work on code, AI coding assistants and agents have already become part of their process for enhancing performance for generating ...