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Mobile drone manufacturing startup Firestorm Labs raises $47M
Firestorm Labs Inc. said today it has validated its mobile “factory-in-a-box” technique for manufacturing autonomous drones after closing on a $47 million Series A round of funding. The company aims to apply additive manufacturing processes, including three-dimensional printing to enable mobile drone production in any location. It said the funds will be used to construct ...
Hadrian gets $260M in funding to accelerate defense industry manufacturing automation
Defense industry manufacturing startup Hadrian Automation Inc. said today it has closed on a fresh capital infusion of $260 million led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Lux Capital, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $500 million. Today’s Series C round also saw participation from previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and new ...
Kyndryl’s new Agentic AI Framework aims to help enterprises knuckle down on AI agents
Information technology consultancy Kyndryl Holdings Inc. says it’s stepping up to help enterprises make the most out of their newfangled artificial intelligence agents with the launch of a new Agentic AI Framework. The company said it’s a brand-new approach that can help enterprises to deploy AI agents to assist human workers at large scale by ...
Indian startup QpiAI gets $32M to supercharge AI development with quantum computing
QpiAI India Pvt. Ltd. is looking to establish its home nation as a leading light in the field of quantum computing-based artificial intelligence after bagging $32 million in a Series A round of funding. Today’s round was led by Avataar Ventures and saw participation from the Indian Department of Science and Technology’s National Quantum Mission, ...
Reflection AI’s autonomous coding agent Asimov learns from more than just code
Artificial intelligence startup Reflection AI Inc. is looking to change the way AI agents are designed and built, with a view to achieving so-called “superintelligence” much faster. The company has developed an autonomous agent known as Asimov, introduced today. It has been trained to understand how software is created by ingesting not only code, but ...
OpenAI taps Google Cloud to access much-needed GPUs for ChatGPT
OpenAI is getting some much-needed cloud infrastructure love from Google Cloud, and has added the company to its official list of artificial intelligence hardware suppliers. The AI industry leader has recently admitted that it has been struggling to procure enough cloud infrastructure capacity to run its popular chatbot assistant ChatGPT and other large language models, ...
Tetrate steps up to handle traffic management for AI agents powered by multiple LLMs
Service mesh company Tetrate Inc. wants to help reduce the costs and improve the reliability of artificial intelligence agents with the latest addition to its AI gateway tool. Today it announced the availability of the Tetrate Agent Router Service, a managed solution that makes it simpler for developers to direct AI queries and requests to AI ...
Drone services operator FlyGuys wants to connect AI applications to real-world aerial data after raising $13M
Drone fleet operator FlyGuys Corp. said it wants to reinvent itself as more of a “reality data” provider after closing on $13 million in Series A-1 funding today. The round was led by the Wonder Fund North Dakota under the direction of O’Leary Ventures, which is led by the well-known Canadian investor Kevin O’Leary. FlyGuys ...
Lightricks’ latest release lets creators direct long-form AI-generated videos in real time
Open-source artificial intelligence pioneer Lightricks Ltd. is raising the stakes with the launch of the industry’s first long-form AI-generated video model with livestreaming capabilities. The latest version of its flagship LTX Video model is said to support “continuous narratives” when livestreaming AI-generated video, as it gives users the ability to add new prompts from the ...
Investors dig up $96M in funding for underground intelligence startup Exodigo
Subterranean mapping startup Exodigo Ltd. said today it has gotten a $96 million boost after closing on a Series B funding round led by Zeev Ventures and Greenfield Partners. Existing investors 10D VC, SquarePeg and JIBE also participated, alongside new investors Vintage Partners and Leblon Capital. The round brings Exodigo’s total amount raised since launching in ...