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Harmonic raises $75M to create AI with mathematical superintelligence and eliminate hallucinations
Harmonic, an artificial intelligence startup that’s pursuing the goal of mathematical superintelligence, or MSI, said today it has closed on a $75 million early-stage funding round. Today’s Series A round was led by Sequoia Capital and saw participation from Index Ventures, Jasper Lau’s Era Funds, GreatPoint Ventures, DTS Global Partners, Palo Alto Networks Inc. Chief ...
Mozilla kicks off Builders accelerator program for ‘local AI’ startups
Mozilla Corp., the nonprofit organization behind the Firefox browser, today announced the first cohort of startups in its new, artificial intelligence-themed Mozilla Builders Accelerator. It has selected 14 promising young companies, with each one gaining access to up to $100,000 in funding plus mentorship from Mozilla’s experts. The Mozilla Builders Accelerator is not a new ...
Cloudflare debuts tools for website owners to charge AI companies that scrape their content
Earlier this year, Cloudflare Inc. announced a simple tool for website owners to prevent artificial intelligence model developers from scraping their online content. Now, it’s building on that with additional capabilities that can help website owners to control how their content is used by AI models, and even try to make money from it. The ...
Report: Intel mulls $5B investment offer from private equity firm Apollo
The private equity firm Apollo Global Management Inc. is reportedly planning to make a multibillion-dollar investment in Intel Corp., suggesting confidence in the troubled chipmaker’s recently announced turnaround strategy. In a report on Sunday, Bloomberg cited a person familiar with the matter as saying Apollo is willing to make an “equity-like” investment of up to ...
Osmos takes on LinkedIn with its AI matchmaker-powered professional networking platform
Match Global Inc. today announced the launch of its artificial intelligence-powered networking platform Osmos, and it has given itself the ambitious goal of surpassing LinkedIn as the favored platform for technology professionals and entrepreneurs to meet like-minded individuals. The Osmos platform is centered on an AI matchmaking engine that helps its users to surface more ...
YugabyteDB evolves into a distributed PostgreSQL database for apps that need resilience and scale
High-performance database startup Yugabyte Inc. is updating its namesake platform YugabyteDB, targeting developers who prefer to run their applications on the open-source PostgreSQL database. With today’s update, YugabyteDB is transforming itself from a platform that’s simply Postgres-compatible to become a distributed PostgreSQL database itself. To coincide with that move, it also announced an artificial intelligence-powered ...
Cyberattack simulation and penetration testing startup Picus Security raises $45M
Cybersecurity validation startup Picus Security Inc. is highlighting the need for organizations to adopt more proactive security measures after closing on a $45 million round of funding today. The Series C round was led by a new investor, Riverwood Capital, and saw participation of an existing backer from the company’s earlier rounds, Earlybird Digital East ...
Photonics startup Lightium raises $7M to mass-produce thin-film lithium niobate data center interconnects
Swiss photonics startup Lightium AG wants to help data center operators reduce their energy consumption while increasing performance after closing on a $7 million seed funding round. Today’s round was led by VSquared Ventures and Lakestar, and the money will help Lightium become the first company in the world to design and manufacture photonic integrated ...
YouTube to bring AI-generated videos to Shorts with Veo integration
YouTubers will soon be able to play with a host of new generative artificial intelligence-powered tools for creating content, including the ability to generate six-second YouTube Shorts clips, and backgrounds for their videos, using simple text prompts. The coming updates were announced by YouTube at its Made on YouTube event in New York City today. ...
RISC-V guardian SiFive unveils new chip designs for low-powered AI at the edge
Open-source semiconductor design company SiFive Inc. today unveiled its latest chip design blueprints, the SiFive Intelligence XM Series, saying these are the first based on its RISC-V architecture to include a highly scalable artificial intelligence matrix engine. With the new blueprints, SiFive says, companies will be able to accelerate the development of RISC-V-based chips that ...