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Story raises $80M for blockchain-based IP network to address creative ownership in the AI era
Programmable IP Labs, the core contributor to the intellectual property-tracking blockchain network Story Protocol, today said it has raised $80 million in new funding. The Series B round, led by a16 crypto, brought the total raised by PIP to $140 million, including $54 million from a previous round also led by the crypto arm of Andreessen Horowitz ...
OpenAI makes fine-tuning for GPT-4o customization generally available
OpenAI today announced the launch of fine-tuning capability for its flagship GPT-4o artificial intelligence large language model, which will allow developers to create custom versions for specific use cases. GPT-4o is OpenAI’s largest and most complex model capable of responding in real-time to text, audio and video. It can reply to voice inputs so quickly that ...
Defense tech startup Defcon AI raises $44M to improve military logistics
Defcon AI Inc., a defense technology startup that provides logistics insights for military operations, said today it has raised $44 million in seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners to expand its team and build more capabilities. In addition to Bessemer, Fifth Growth Fund and Red Cell Partners also joined the round. Military organizations such ...
Procreate says it won’t ever use generative AI in its creative products
“Creativity is made, not generated.” Savage Interactive Pty Ltd., the maker of a popular iPad design app Procreate, made this a rallying cry today, coming out against the rise of generative artificial intelligence image creation being integrated into tech products and vowing never to add the technology to its software. The company said on its ...
AMD to acquire hyperscale solutions provider ZT Systems in data center AI expansion bid
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced today that it agreed to acquire ZT Systems, a provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure for hyperscale computing providers, to expand solutions for running AI models at large scale. As part of the deal, AMD said it agreed to pay $4.9 billion for ZT Systems in a mix of cash and ...
Primate Labs launches Geekbench AI tool to test real-world device AI performance
Primate Labs Inc., the maker of cross-platform benchmarking software, Thursday officially released Geekbench AI 1.0, a tool designed to test the real-world performance of artificial intelligence workloads on mobile and desktop platforms. The tool, previously known as Geekbench ML, has been renamed to better fit the industry standard naming convention although it does cover machine learning ...
Cockroach Labs changes its self-hosting license to a single enterprise model
Cockroach Labs Inc., maker of the distributed and resilient CockroachDB database, said today that it’s changing its licensing to better align with the needs of its customers, startups and scaled-up companies alike. The company said today that it’s consolidating its self-hosted license under a single model that will provide smaller companies access to the tools ...
Quantum Circuits raises $60M to build scalable error-correcting quantum platform
Quantum Circuits Inc., a spinout from Yale University building a novel quantum computing platform, today announced it has raised more than $60 million in an early-stage funding round that will allow the company to commercialize its scalable solution with built-in error correction. The Series B investment was led by ARCH Venture Partners, F-Prime Capital, Sequoia ...
Decentralized AI network Sahara raises $43M to tackle copyright and transparency in training data
Sahara AI Ltd., a startup building a decentralized platform for artificial intelligence data using blockchain technology, today announced it has raised $43 million in early-stage funding co-led by Pantera Capital, Binance Labs and Polychain Capital. The Series A funding round also attracted investments from Samsung, Alumni Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, dao5, Geekcartel, Nomad Capital, ...
GitHub rolls out AI-powered Autofix Copilot to catch and fix vulnerabilities in code
In a “move fast and break things” world, Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub today announced the launch of a new way, using artificial intelligence, to move fast while fixing problems during software development before they become bigger issues down the line. The company said Autofix Copilot, an AI-powered vulnerability remediation tool in GitHub Advanced Security, is now ...