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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 ...
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 ...