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WebAI’s Companion is an AI assistant for enterprise employees that runs privately on their own devices
The privacy-focused artificial intelligence development startup webAI Inc. said today it’s rolling out a new AI-powered assistant called Companion to help large organizations “supercharge” their productivity. Companion, webAI claims, is a “breakthrough” AI assistant that can be customized to support almost any kind of enterprise workload. Theh company is known for its focus on private ...
AI procurement management software startup Vertice raises $50M
Procurement software startup Vertice Technology Inc. said today it has finalized a $50 million funding round led by Lakestar, bringing its total amount raised to more than $100 million, and its valuation to a reported $500 million. Perpetual Growth and CF Private Equity also participated in the Series C round, alongside existing investors Bessemer Venture ...
Eleos gets $60M in funding to transform behavioral healthcare with AI agents
Eleos Health Inc. said today it has closed on a $60 million Series C round of funding, and will use the money to continue its mission of trying to transform the way behavioral healthcare is delivered by empowering clinicians with artificial intelligence assistants. Today’s round was led by Greenfield Partners and saw participation from existing backers ...
DigitalOcean dives into agentic AI creation, making it accessible to every developer
The small developer team-focused cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. has become the latest company to embrace the agentic AI trend, launching a new GenAI Platform that enables teams to build and deploy AI agents in a matter of minutes. AI agents are one of the hottest trends in the artificial intelligence industry today, referring to ...
Diesel Labs blends generative AI chat with big-data analysis to create synthetic focus groups for marketing teams
Business intelligence startup Diesel Labs Inc. is merging generative artificial intelligence chat capabilities with its enormous, proprietary dataset on consumer attitudes to create a new tool called PanelAI that will deliver what it says are “unprecedented” consumer insights. Available now, PanelAI provides marketing and media teams with almost instantaneous access to actionable, real-time insights from ...
API collaboration startup Postman wants to lead the charge in AI agent development
Postman Inc., the well-funded startup that’s recognized as an industry leader in application programming interface development, says it’s getting into the business of developing artificial intelligence agents. The company says its new AI Agent Builder tool empowers companies to combine large language models with APIs and workflows to design, test and deploy intelligent AI-powered applications ...
Nebius AI Studio adds its first text-to-image models to support creative app development
Artificial intelligence computing infrastructure company Nebius B.V. today announced it’s updating its inference-as-a-service platform for developers with the addition of new, open-source text-to-image models. Nebius AI Studio provides a flexible, user-friendly environment for developers to get started building AI applications, and besides offering access to a vast collection of large language models, it’s also one ...
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank to invest $500B in US AI infrastructure building project
New U.S. President Donald Trump appeared alongside officials from three top technology firms to announce the creation of a new initiative called the Stargate Project, which is tasked with building up artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country. OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison stood ...
Render Services raises $80M to try to make AWS and other cloud infrastructure platforms obsolete
Developer-focused cloud infrastructure startup Render Services Inc. says it’s ready to disrupt traditional giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. after raising $80 million in a new round of funding. Today’s Series C round was led by Georgian and saw participation from 01A, a new venture capital firm headed by former Twitter ...
TigerGraph revs up its graph database offering with faster setup times and new preconfigurations
Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. today announced a major update to its flagship cloud platform with the Savanna release, bringing with it six times faster network deployments and dozens of other new features. The well-funded startup is one of the pioneers of graph databases alongside companies such as Aerospike Inc. and Neo4J Inc. Graph databases are ...