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Celestia Foundation nabs $100M for modular blockchain network
Celestia Foundation, the team behind the modular blockchain network Celestia, has raised $100 million in new funding. The investment, announced Monday, was led by Bain Capital Crypto, with additional contributions from Syncracy Capital, 1kx, Robot Ventures, and Placeholder. It follows a previous $55 million investment led by Bain Capital Crypto and Polychain Capital in 2022, bringing the ...
Nurix AI raises $27.5M to scale development of custom enterprise AI agents
Bengaluru, India-based Nurix AI, the developer of custom artificial intelligence agents for enterprise customers, today announced it has raised $27.5 million in early-stage funding. The seed-Series A funding was co-led by General Catalyst and Accel with participation from Merkai Labs. Founded in early 2024, Nurix builds custom AI agents that can execute complex actions on ...
Tabnine introduces AI agents that generate and validate code from Jira issues
Tabnine Ltd., the maker of an artificial intelligence code completion tool for developers, today announced the general availability of two AI agents that integrate with Atlassian Corp.’s Jira, which can generate and validate code from issues. Jira issues are a primary source for developers to receive communication about updates needed for code and are often provided in ...
Open-source data orchestration platform Kestra raises $8M
Kestra, the maker of a unified open-source data workflow orchestration platform, today announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding to drive the company’s continued expansion across North America and continue its vision to bridge what the company calls the “orchestration gap.” Alven led the round, and ISAI and Axeleo Capital joined alongside notable ...
Drift raises $25M to expand decentralized exchange on the Solana blockchain
Drift Labs, the developer of a decentralized finance platform built on the Solana blockchain, announced Thursday it has raised $25 million in new funding to expand its services. The Series B round was led by Multicoin Capital and attracted investments from Blockchain Capital, Folius Ventures, Maelstrom and Primitive. The company said it intends to use ...
Amazon launches Amelia, a generative AI-powered assistant for third-party sellers
Amazon.com Inc. today announced it’s rolling out a generative artificial intelligence assistant dubbed Project Amelia for independent sellers to provide answers, advice and tools to boost their productivity and sales. The new AI assistant is currently in beta mode for select Amazon partners in the United States. It will allow sellers to ask questions in English ...
Alibaba releases 100+ open-source AI models and new text-to-video generator
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group Ltd., today announced the release of more than 100 new artificial intelligence large language models open source as part of the Qwen 2.5 family of models. Revealed at the company’s Apsara Conference, the new model series follows the release of the company’s foundation model Tongyi ...
Exclusive: Deepgram launches voice agent API that brings AI conversations to life
Deepgram Inc., the developer of a speech recognition engine that provides its service via application programming interfaces, today announced a powerful addition to its platform that enables natural-sounding conversations between humans and artificial intelligence agents at large scale in real time. Using speech recognition and voice synthesis AI models, Deepgram’s voice agent systems ensure human-like ...
Cudis raises $5M for a blockchain-based AI-powered wearable health ring
Wearable device health startup Cudis known for its smart health ring today announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding to scale up its ring to larger markets and improve its artificial-intelligence health-centric features. Led by Draper Associates, investors also included DraperDragon, Skybridge, Penrose, SNZ, Mozaik, NGC, Foresight Ventures, OGBC and Monke Ventures, among ...
HubSpot introduces Breeze, an AI-powered tool with copilot, agents and customer intelligence
Inbound marketing and customer relationship management platform HubSpot Inc. today introduced Breeze, the company’s artificial intelligence. It underlies the entire customer solution for go-to-market teams designed with a copilot, automated AI agents and a unified view of customer management. Dylan Sellberg, director of product at HubSpot, told SiliconANGLE in an interview that although AI has ...