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Hugging Face makes AI development easier than ever with Gradio 5 release
Artificial intelligence startup Hugging Face Inc. is looking to break down barriers to AI development with the launch of Gradio 5, the latest version of its open-source tool for building machine learning applications. The latest version of Gradio is all about easing access to AI development, and includes an entirely new, AI-powered app creation tool, ...
Google Cloud brings Gemini models to Looker to create conversational AI agents using private data
Just a week after it updated a host of its cloud database services, Google Cloud is rolling out yet more data-focused updates, with a focus on helping companies to build artificial intelligence agents that can perform tasks on behalf of their users. Gerrit Kazmaier, Google Cloud’s general manager and vice president of data analytics, revealed various ...
RAG data preparation startup Vectorize launches with $3.6M in seed funding
Data integration startup Vectorize AI Inc. says its software is ready to play a critical role in the world of artificial intelligence after closing on a $3.6 million seed funding round today. The round was led by True Ventures, and was announced alongside the debut of its novel platform that’s meant to aid in retrieval-augmented ...
Open-source BI startup Lightdash raises $11M and launches its first AI data analyst
London-based business intelligence startup Lightdash, officially known as Telescope Technology Ltd., said today it has raised $11 million in an early-stage funding round. Today’s Series A round was led by Accel and saw participation from new investors Operator Partners and Shopify Ventures, plus existing backers that took part in the company’s seed round two years ...
Big-data company dbt Labs’ new AI copilot to simplify data analytics lifecycles
Big-data company dbt Labs Inc. kicked off its annual user conference Coalesce 2024 in Las Vegas this week with a host of updates to its flagship dbt Cloud product, saying they will help cement its status as a “data control plane” for enterprise analytics. The company said the new services announced at the event support users ...
Meta debuts new generative AI tools for creating video-based ads
Meta Platforms Inc. today said it’s rolling out a full-screen video tab on Facebook in recognition of the fact that its users spend more time watching videos than anything else on its platforms. And with that, it’s also looking to help advertisers with the launch of a range of new ad formats specifically for video-based ...
AI startup Driver raises $8M to drive productivity gains by simplifying technical documentation
A startup called Driver AI is looking to ease the headaches around technical documentation for new software and hardware products after closing on an $8 million seed funding round. Today’s round was led by Google LLC’s venture capital arm GV, and saw participation from Y Combinator and a host of angel investors. Driver has created ...
Amazon suffers a defeat as judge allows FTC antitrust case to move forward
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has been given the green light to proceed with its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc., though the company did win a small victory after a judge threw out some of the claims against it made by states involved in the case. The order issued by Judge John H. Chun ...
Meta advances generative AI video creation with Movie Gen
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team has showcased a new family of generative AI models for media that can generate and edit videos from simple text prompts. Though the models are still a work in progress, the company said they will provide the foundation of new video creation features set to appear in Facebook, ...
Google’s lightweight Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B hits general availability
Google LLC is making a new version of its popular Gemini 1.5 Flash artificial intelligence model available that’s smaller and faster than the original. It’s called Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, and it’s much more affordable, at half the price. Gemini 1.5 Flash is the lightweight version of Google’s Gemini family of large language models, optimized for speed ...