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Contents.com raises $18M for AI-driven multilingual enterprise content generation
Milan-based Contents.com, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to provide multilingual content generation services, announced Monday the company has raised $18 million in new funding to grow its multiple large language model generative AI platform. The company’s Series B fundraise was led by Alkemia Capital and Thomson Reuters Ventures. FNDX and Invictus Capital also contributed to the round. ...
Web3 AI data marketplace Ta-da raises $3.5M to expand operations
Ta-da, an artificial intelligence data marketplace that uses blockchain technology to gamify the process of verifying AI data, announced Monday that it has raised $3.5 million led by Morningstar Ventures to develop and expand its operations. The company was founded on the idea that high-quality data for AI datasets is difficult and expensive to obtain. ...
Apple Vision Pro will ship to US customers Feb. 2
The highly anticipated mixed reality Apple Vision Pro headset from Apple Inc. will launch in the U.S. and ship to customers on Feb. 2, the company said today, with pre-orders beginning on Jan. 19. The Vision Pro is a mixed reality device, meaning that it provides users the capability of immersive virtual reality experiences and blended digital and ...
Xreal releases $699 Air 2 Ultra augmented reality glasses
Xreal Inc., formerly Nreal, announced the launch of the Xreal Air 2 Ultra augmented reality glasses ahead of CES 2024 on Sunday, featuring new 3D sensors and computer vision capabilities for mapping virtual objects onto surroundings. The new wearable AR glasses feature a sleek titanium ring frame with a “wayfarer-esque design” that weighs about 80 grams. They’re ...
Getty Images launches generative AI-powered image creation tool
Getty Images Holdings Inc., an American visual content marketplace for video and images, today announced at the CES 2024 consumer electronics show the release of Generative AI by iStock, a tool that will allow creators to safely create commercially safe content based on licensed images. The new tool uses generative artificial intelligence, which can take ...
Etherscan acquires Solscan to expand its blockchain data services
Ethereum blockchain data services company Etherscan announced Wednesday that it has acquired Solscan, a block explorer for the Solana blockchain, in a bid to expand its capabilities across multiple blockchains. Built and launched in 2015, Etherscan is a block explorer for the Ethereum blockchain, which means it provides access to blockchain data and allows users to search, ...
Generative AI search engine Perplexity AI raises $74M at $520M valuation
Generative artificial intelligence search engine startup Perplexity AI said today that it has raised $73.6 million in new funding that places the company at a valuation of $520 million. The company’s Series B funding round, led by Institutional Venture Partners LLC, was also joined by existing investors from its previous Series A and seed rounds, including NEA, ...
Qualcomm unveils next-gen Snapdragon XR2+ chip to support extended reality platforms
Qualcomm Technologies Inc. today unveiled a new chip with the Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 platform that will power high-resolution 3D graphics in next-generation immersive virtual reality and mixed reality headsets. The new chip builds on the same technology as the Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 platform, which was announced in September and is built into the Meta Platforms ...
Intel forms independent enterprise generative AI software firm Articul8 AI
Intel Corp. today announced the formation of an independent company named Articul8 AI that will offer enterprise customers generative artificial intelligence software capabilities with backing from digital infrastructure investment firm DigitalBridge Group Inc. Articul8 AI, pronounced “Articulate AI,” will provide full-stack generative AI platform support, Intel said, that will keep customer data, training and inference securely within enterprise cloud, ...
SonicWall acquires Banyan Security to expand its cloud security portfolio
SonicWall Inc., the network security provider that spun out of Dell Technologies Inc. in 2016, today announced the acquisition of Banyan Security Inc., a provider of edge service security solutions for workforces, to expand its cloud services portfolio. As more workforces and organizations have shifted to cloud computing, the cybersecurity landscape has become fraught with ...