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Supabase, the Postgres-based application development platform, raises $80M in funding
Open-source application development platform and Postgres database service provider Supabase Inc. said today it has closed on an $80 million round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to $196 million. Today’s Series C round, which was first reported by TechCrunch, was led by Peak XV and Craft Ventures, and saw participation from ...
Micron’s stock surges as AI companies scramble for high-bandwidth memory chips
Shares of the semiconductor company Micron Technology Inc. were flying higher in late trading today after it delivered strong results in its fiscal fourth quarter and impressed with its outlook. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $1.18 per share, coming in ahead of the consensus estimate of $1.11. Revenue ...
Open AI CTO Mira Murati quits, the latest in a continuing string of executive departures
OpenAI’s high-profile Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, who has been one of the central figures in the development of ChatGPT and the image generator model DALL-E, said today she’s leaving the artificial intelligence company to do her own “exploration.” “My six-and-a-half years with the OpenAI team have been an extraordinary privilege,” Murati (pictured) said in ...
Box makes company documents easier to organize and find with Box Hubs
Cloud content management software company Box Inc. today announced the general availability of its Box Hubs feature, enabling customers on its enterprise plans to create intelligent portals that make it easier for users to organize, curate and publish content. The aim is to enable easier access in internal teams and with external partners. Box Hubs is ...
Harness unveils AI code and DevOps agents to accelerate its software delivery platform
Harness Inc., the software delivery platform startup that provides tools for developers to update and monitor their applications on the fly, has kicked off its annual user conference with a significant update. The company’s complete software delivery-as-a-service platform is being infused with a “multi-agent” artificial intelligence architecture that promises to transform developer workflows, improve developer ...
Infrastructure-as-code startup Bluebricks lands $4.5M to challenge HashiCorp’s Terraform
Cloud computing infrastructure management startup Bluebricks Ltd. says it’s looking to disrupt the infrastructure-as-code industry after closing on a $4.5 million seed funding round today. The round was led by Flint Capital and Glilot Capital Partners, and saw participation from a host of angel investors, including Yochay Ettun, chief executive of Cnvrg.io Inc., which was ...
Salesforce buys Israeli startup Zoomin to feed more data to its AI agents
Salesforce Inc. has returned to Israel to make a second major acquisition, splashing out to acquire a company called Zoomin Software Ltd. that offers tools for processing unstructured data. The deal comes less than three weeks after Salesforce splurged $1.9 billion to acquire the Israeli cloud data backup specialist Own Co. It’s paying a lot ...
Contact center-as-a-service startup Ujet raises $76M to accelerate generative AI development
The cloud contact center company Ujet Inc. said today it has closed on a $76 million late-stage round of funding, earmarking the money to accelerate its deployment of generative artificial intelligence to enhance customer support experiences. Today’s Series D round was led by existing investor Sapphire Ventures and saw participation from KeyCorp and IonPacific, which ...
NetApp outlines its vision of an intelligent data infrastructure for generative AI projects
Data storage infrastructure company NetApp Inc. said today it’s looking to accelerate innovation in artificial intelligence with the evolution of its “intelligent data infrastructure” platform. Announced today at the company’s annual user conference, NetApp INSIGHT, NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure describes the company’s vision of a data infrastructure that’s geared for hosting the data and AI ...
Google unveils new generative AI innovations for customer engagement and Gemini in Workspace
Google Cloud said today it’s expanding its leadership in the world of artificial intelligence agents with a new set of generative AI models that are specifically targeted at customer engagement applications, integrated within its Contact Center AI services. The new Customer Engagement Suite, announced at Google’s virtual Gemini at Work online event, is powered by Google’s ...