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AI hardware startup Recogni raises $102M for self-driving solutions
Recogni Inc., a startup developing artificial intelligence hardware for autonomous vehicles, today announced that it has raised $102 million in a funding round co-led by Celesta Capital and GreatPoint Ventures. The Series C round was also joined by existing and new investors including Mayfield, DNS Capital, BMW i Ventures Inc. and the Public Investment Fund’s ...
Meta unveils V-JEPA AI model that improves training by learning from video
Meta Platform Inc.’s AI research division has released a new artificial intelligence model today that makes crucial steps in AI training that advances learning by interpreting video information similar to the way that humans understand the world. The model, named V-JEPA, or the Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture model, works differently than large language models. ...
Modular blockchain data protocol startup Lava raises $15M
Lava Protocol Inc., a startup that provides a modular data network for scaling access to blockchains, today announced it has raised $15 million in seed funding led by Jump Capital, Hashkey Capital and Tribe Capital to build out its infrastructure and data marketplace. Also joining Lava’s seed round are Alliance, Node, North Island, Quiet, Finality, Dispersion Capital ...
AI cloud compute startup Lambda raises $320M at $1.5B valuation
Lambda Inc., a startup that operates an on-demand public cloud for training and deploying artificial intelligence models, today announced it has raised $320 million in a new funding round increasing the company’s valuation to $1.5 billion. The Series C round was led by Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology with participation from new investors B Capital, SK Telecom ...
Google announces Gemini 1.5 for developers to experiment on
Google LLC today announced the next generation of its artificial intelligence foundational model Gemini with version 1.5, which the company said changes almost every part of its development and infrastructure to make it more efficient to train and serve. The first version of Gemini 1.5 released for early testing will be Gemini 1.5 Pro, a midsized multimodal ...
Nvidia unveils first look at Eos, its latest data center-scale supercomputer
Nvidia Corp. today provided the first public look at the architecture powering Eos, the company’s latest data center-scale supercomputer designed for accelerating artificial intelligence development, described as an “AI factory.” Revealed in November during the Supercomputing 2023 trade show, Eos is named after the Greek goddess who is the personification of dawn. The supercomputer is built with ...
Mark Zuckerberg tried Apple’s Vision Pro and shared his thoughts
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the newly released mixed-reality headset from Apple Inc., the Vision Pro, where he said that Meta’s Quest 3 headset was simply “the better product, period.” In the three-minute video, Zuckerberg (pictured) said he finally tried the new headset, noting that he expected ...
Cohere for AI unveils Aya, a multilingual open-source AI with 101 languages
Cohere for AI, the nonprofit research lab run by the artificial intelligence startup Cohere Inc., today introduced a “massively multilingual” open-source artificial intelligence large language model called Aya that can operate in 101 different languages. According to Cohere, with more than 100 languages under its hood, Aya’s capability represents more than double the number of languages covered ...
Sierra announces launch of conversational AI platform for customer service
Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced the launch of its conversational artificial intelligence platform designed to help companies interface with their customers using AI agents that can make recommendations, answer questions, take actions on behalf of employees and elevate the customer experience. The company, co-founded by ex-Salesforce Chief Executive Bret Taylor and former Google executive Clay Bavor, said ...
LeoLabs raises $29M to help companies safely operate in space
Satellite protection and space debris mapping startup LeoLabs Inc. today said it has raised an additional $29 million in new funding led by GP Bullhound. to help companies that operate in space expand their advanced artificial intelligence-powered insights. The new funding is an extension of the company’s Series B round that brought in $65 million in June 2021. ...