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OpenAI’s newest reasoning model o3-pro surpasses rivals on multiple benchmarks, but it’s not very fast
OpenAI is upping the ante in artificial intelligence reasoning with the launch of o3-pro today, claiming it’s the most advanced model of its kind. The o3-pro model is a more powerful version of the original 03 reasoning model, which debuted earlier this year. Reasoning models are more intelligent than standard generative AI models like the ...
Time intelligence startup Laurel gets $100M to turbocharge worker productivity
AI-native time keeping startup Laurel Inc. said today it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding round to try and transform the productivity of legal, consulting and accounting firms, whose biggest resource is human capital. Today’s round was led by IVP and backed by a long list of participating investors, including Google LLC’s ...
GitLab’s revenue outlook comes up short and its stock gets hammered
Shares of the DevOps pioneer GitLab Inc. were battered and bruised in late trading today after it increased its full-year profit outlook but narrowly missed expectations on sales guidance. That came after it logged a narrower loss in the first quarter and grew its revenue. The company, which provides software development tools for enterprises, reported first-quarter ...
Harness scales up its Internal Delivery Platform to accelerate software delivery
Harness Inc., the software delivery platform startup that provides tools for developers to update and monitor their applications on the fly, today announced a major update aimed at helping enterprises dramatically scale up their application development efforts. The latest release of the Harness Internal Developer Portal is meant to address challenges such as the need ...
Zencoder accelerates vibe coding with instant, AI-powered software verification
Generative artificial intelligence coding startup Zencoder says it’s finally able to help developer teams shift from “vibe coding” to production-ready applications with its latest tool, which automates the verification process for newly generated code. Announced today and available in beta test now, Zentester is an AI-powered agent that can quickly validate any piece of code, ...
Hirundo raises $8M to try to make AI forget the bad data causing its hallucinations
Hirundo AI Ltd., a startup that’s helping artificial intelligence models “forget” bad data that causes them to hallucinate and generate bad responses, said today it has raised $8 million in seed funding to popularize the idea of “machine unlearning.” Today’s round was led by Maverick Ventures Israel and saw participation from SuperSeed, Alpha Intelligence Capital, ...
Amperity brings vibe coding to data engineers with its first AI agent
Customer data cloud startup Amperity Inc. is joining the agentic artificial intelligence party, launching Chuck Data, an AI agent that specializes in customer data engineering. Announced today, Chuck Data is trained on massive volumes of customer data from more than 400 enterprise brands. This “critical knowledge” base allows it to execute tasks such as identity ...
Uniphore maneuvers to become the foundation of enterprise AI
Uniphore Technologies Inc. is accelerating its transition from call center intelligence into the ultimate provider of artificial intelligence for enterprises with the launch of its Business AI Cloud platform today. The new platform will launch next month. Uniphore says it’s a composable, sovereign and secure platform for AI that marries the simplicity of consumer-focused chatbots ...
Guardz collects $56M to bring enterprise-grade cybersecurity to smaller businesses
Cybersecurity services firm Guardz Cyber Ltd. said it has closed on a $56 million Series B round of funding today as it scrambles to help small and medium-sized businesses build resilience to a growing range of threats. Today’s round was led by ClearSky and saw participation from Phoenix Financial and existing investors Glilot Capital Partners, ...
Report: Meta holding talks on $10B investment in data labeling startup Scale AI
Meta Platforms Inc. is looking to invest billions of dollars into the artificial intelligence data labeling startup Scale AI Inc. The company is holding talks over a funding deal that could see it inject more than $10 billion into the startup, though the terms have not yet been agreed and could still change, anonymous sources ...
