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TestSprite nabs $1.5M to build autonomous AI software testing platform
TestSprite Inc., a platform that offers fully autonomous artificial intelligence-powered software testing, today announced it has raised $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its product development. Investors in the round included Techstars, Jinqiu Capital, MiraclePlus, Hat-trick Capital, EdgeCase Capital Partners and angel investor Rafael Barroso. Additional investments came from the company’s founding team. This ...
Google Cloud updates Kubernetes Engine with support for trillion-parameter AI models
As generative artificial intelligence models continue to grow in size to as much as 2 trillion parameters, the need for compute and storage for large language models is following suit. Today Google Cloud announced that it has upgraded its Kubernetes Engine’s capacity in anticipation of even larger models, with support for 65,000-node clusters, up from its ...
Red Hat to acquire AI optimization startup Neural Magic
Open-source software giant Red Hat Inc. announced today that it has agreed to acquire Neural Magic Inc., a machine learning startup that optimizes AI models to run whatever hardware is available, including central processing units or graphics processing units. As AI large language models grow in size and complexity, they also consume more compute power ...
DataRobot unveils enterprise AI app and agent development tools
Artificial intelligence startup DataRobot Inc. today announced a suite of enterprise AI tools to help business customers build generative AI apps and agents customized to meet their needs. With the new enterprise AI toolset, DataRobot customers will find everything they need to build and deploy AI apps faster using prebuilt application templates for a wide ...
Ennoventure raises $8.9M for AI-driven cryptographic anti-counterfeit technology
Ennoventure Inc., a company that provides brands a way to protect their products using invisible artificial intelligence-powered watermarks, said today it has raised $8.9 million in early-stage funding led by Singapore-based venture capital firm Tanglin Venture Partners. Existing investor Fenice Investment Group, among others, also participated in the Series A round. Ennoventure’s technology platform uses ...
Fastino launches with $7M to release high-performance task-optimized AI models that run on CPUs
Fastino, a new artificial intelligence foundation model developer, launched today to provide a family of task-optimized language models designed to maintain high performance and accuracy without the need to run on high-end graphics processing units. The company also announced it raised $7 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Insight Partners and Microsoft Corp.’s M12 ...
Ethereum’s ENS Lab name service set to launch overhauled ‘Namechain’ blockchain identity network
Ethereum Name Service parent company ENS Labs Ltd. today announced plans to launch its own layer 2 scaling network for its blockchain-based name service. The new network is called Namechain, and ENS Labs said it intends to launch the it around the end of the year. According to the company, the blockchain network will use ...
Anthropic partners with AWS and Palantir to provide AI models to defense agencies
Generative artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC said today it’s joining with big data analytics service company Palantir Technologies Inc. and Amazon Web Services Inc. to provide its Claude AI model family to U.S. intelligence and defense agencies. The company said the partnership will use Palantir’s data products to support government operations by processing vast amounts ...
Diliko launches agentic AI-powered data management platform for midsized enterprises
Diliko, a startup that provides on-demand data management using artificial intelligence for midsized enterprise customers, officially launched publicly today. The company’s platform offers a cloud-delivered platform that automates complex data workflows, manages security, AI governance and optimizes performance. Under the hood, it uses agentic AI, a new trend in the AI industry where generative AI ...
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 ...