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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 ...
Salesforce launches Agentforce AI Partner Network and updates to Data Cloud
Salesforce Inc. recently announced the launch of its new artificial intelligence autonomous agent platform Agentforce that can handle tasks for employees, and for enterprises to do this in a useful way, the AI agents need to connect to external tools and partners. Today at its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, the company announced the launch ...
Microsoft announces updates to AI-powered 365 Copilot with Pages and autonomous agents
Microsoft Corp. today announced updates and improvements to its generative artificial intelligence-powered Copilot family for its Microsoft 365 apps and the addition of new features such as new autonomous agents that can automate and execute business processes on behalf of users. Front and center, Microsoft announced Copilot Pages, a new AI feature designed for team ...
Linux Foundation to host AWS’ OpenSearch search and analytics engine
The Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative that will support the search software, which is used by developers around the world to build search, analytics, observability and vector database applications. Originally hosted by Amazon Web Services Inc., OpenSearch was founded in 2021 as a community-driven initiative, Carl ...