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Artificial intelligence model maker Anthropic PBC has thrown down the gauntlet to OpenAI, DeepSeek Ltd. and others in the industry with today’s launch of a new frontier model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Unlike its previous models, Claude 3.7 Sonnet can “think” about questions …
Salesforce strikes multibillion-dollar deal to bring its AI agents to Google Cloud
Salesforce Inc. is looking to lessen its reliance on Amazon Web Services Inc. amid its pivot to artificial intelligence agents, signing a massive new $2.5 billion deal with Google Cloud. The new, seven-year deal, announced today, will enable Salesforce customers to run …
Couchbase enables more nimble agentic AI development with Nvidia’s NIM
Database company Couchbase Inc. is enhancing the capabilities of its artificial intelligence agent-building tools, Capella AI Model Services, by integrating them with Nvidia Corp.’s NIM microservices. The update will make it easier for Couchbase Capella database users to create so-called agentic AI …
Google expands availability of Deep Research, an AI tool that wades deep into any topic
Google LLC said today it’s making its experimental artificial intelligence research tool, called Deep Research, available to Gemini Advanced users via the Google Workspace platform. A relatively new feature that was announced last year, it has the ability to explore complex topics …
Strong earnings and revenue beat fires up Five9’s stock
Shares of the call center software company Five9 Inc. shot up in extended trading after it delivered a solid earnings and revenue beat in its latest financial report, showing strong momentum across its core business. The company reported earnings before certain costs …
Dropbox’s stock slides on weak forecast and stalled customer acquisition
File-sharing company Dropbox Inc. delivered fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street’s estimates, but its revenue growth was painfully slow and guidance for the current quarter came up light, sending investors scurrying away in after-hours trading. The company reported earnings before …
IBM Consulting offers enterprises an easier path to agentic AI
IBM Corp.’s consulting division is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence with the launch today of a new service that can help enterprises automate key business processes with AI agents on their cloud platform of choice. AI Integration Services is an …
Baseten grabs $75M to crank up high-performance inference for AI workloads
BaseTen Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that’s focused on high-performance inference for large language models and other AI applications, said today it has closed on a $75 million Series C funding round led by IVP and Spark Capital. The round, which …
OpenEvidence raises $75M to become the ChatGPT for doctors
The healthcare focused chatbot startup OpenEvidence has closed on $75 million in funding from the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital Operations LLC in a round that values it at more than $1 billion. The round, which came to light today via CNBC, …
RISC-V chip startup AheadComputing raises $21.5M to fix CPU bottlenecks
The newly minted chipmaking startup AheadComputing Inc. said today it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding to develop and commercialize a new artificial intelligence chipset based on the open-source architecture RISC-V. Today’s round was led by Eclipse and saw participation from …