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SoundHound acquires Amelia for $80M to expand its conversational voice AI solutions
SoundHound AI Inc. today announced a deal to acquire Amelia US LLC, an enterprise conversational artificial intelligence agent company, to expand its conversational and voice AI solutions for commerce. SoundHound has developed technologies for voice AI that understand natural speech and allow people to interface with technology such as vehicles, services, devices and apps. It also ...
Andrena raises $18M to launch decentralized internet service
High-speed Wi-Fi internet provider Andrea announced today it has raised $18 million in an early-stage round to develop a decentralized broadband protocol. The extended Series A round was led by Dragonfly Capital. It also attracted investments from CMT Digital, Castle Island Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, 6th Man Ventures and ParaFi. It brings the company’s total raised ...
Automattic rolls out AI-powered writing readability assistant for WordPress bloggers
Automattic Inc., which runs WordPress.com and contributes to the open-source WordPress blogging software, released a new generative artificial intelligence-powered feature Tuesday to help bloggers improve their writing. The new tool, called Write Brief with AI, works with already written text and operates within the WordPress editor as part of Jetpack. The team at Jetpack AI ...
Nillion and Ritual team up to build trustless decentralized AI inference technology
Trust-sensitive computation network Nillion and decentralized open artificial intelligence infrastructure firm Ritual today announced a partnership to develop a peer-to-peer production network for AI that can process data without revealing its nature. As AI has become even more prevalent across industries, the need to access and process sensitive information has become an equally thorny problem. ...
Google rolls out Flutter 3.24 with upgraded graphics performance and easier Apple deployment
Google LLC brought a number of new developments to its open-source Flutter user interface development framework today with Flutter 3.24, including a major boost to graphics performance. The company also rolled out Dart 3.5, a programming language created by Google to build mobile and web applications with C-syntax that is used with Flutter. Flutter works ...
AI chipmaker Groq raises $640M to meet rising demand for high-speed inference compute
Groq Inc., an artificial intelligence and machine learning chipmaker startup, said today that it has raised $640 million in a late-stage round of funding led by Blackrock Inc. The startup designs semiconductor chips and software that optimizes deployed AI activities, known as inference, with a vision to compete with the biggest names in the industry ...
OpenAI can detect text generated by ChatGPT, but it’s not ready for prime time
OpenAI, the company behind the ultra-popular generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, has been developing a way to detect text generated by its AI tools but says that it’s not prepared to release the feature to the public. In an exclusive report, the Wall Street Journal noted that the capability has been warming the company’s servers for ...
Stability AI releases super-fast model for 3D asset image generation
Stability AI Ltd., the open-source generative artificial intelligence startup, has been on a roll, releasing new AI models that generate 3D assets from 2D images and capture motion in 3D. The company announced Thursday the release of a new generative AI model called Stable Fast 3D, which creates 3D models from a single 2D image ...
Open-source startup FOSSA acquires developer tool community StackShare
FOSSA Inc., an open-source compliance and security platform, today announced it has acquired the developer tool community platform StackShare for an undisclosed amount, bringing on board 1.5 million registered users. As a software company, Fossa specializes in open-source risk management by offering solutions for license scanning, compliance automation and vulnerability management. It allows businesses to ensure ...
Google debuts new AI-powered Chrome features to make browsing easier
Google LLC’s Chrome browser team today debuted three new features powered by the company’s latest generative artificial intelligence and Gemini models that will make it easier for users to take advantage of in the desktop browser. The new features include bringing Google Lens, an AI image search capability, directly to Chrome, as well as the ...