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Poolside raises $500M to take on GitHub and others with its AI coding assistants
Artificial intelligence coding startup Poolside Inc., a rival to GitHub Inc.’s Copilot, said today it has closed on a bumper $500 million Series B raise. Today’s funds came from Bain Capital Ventures, which led the round, and it was joined by a number of globally renowned companies. They included eBay Inc., Nvidia Corp., Citi Ventures, ...
Google Cloud beefs up database services for generative AI workloads
Google Cloud said today it’s updating multiple database services, including AlloyDB, Spanner and Memorystore for Valkey 7.2, with new features that should make them more suitable for generative artificial intelligence applications. To begin with, Google announced that it’s making the ScaNN vector index generally available in AlloyDB, which is the company’s fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database ...
Kyndryl launches new consulting services for customers struggling with Copilot for Microsoft 365
Kyndryl Holdings Inc. has taken notice of the apparent customer issues with Microsoft Corp.’s Copilot for Microsoft 365 generative artificial intelligence tool, and is now offering to remedy them. The company has just announced an array of services focused on Copilot for Microsoft 365, aiming to speed up enterprise adoption. The new services, bundled with ...
AuthenticID’s new image comparison tool helps to stop fraudsters bypassing visual ID checks
Identity verification company AuthenticID Inc. is adding a new weapon to its arsenal of fraud detection tools with the debut of Velocity Checks, designed to spot what it calls “high-frequency” attempts at fraud. Announced today, Velocity Checks relies on the analysis of biometrics and documents to detect multiple fake identities that are being used for fraudulent ...
Mostly AI aims to overcome the AI training plateau with synthetic text based on proprietary datasets
Synthetic data startup Mostly AI Solutions MP GmbH says today it’s looking to solve the challenge of finding enough text-based training data for artificial intelligence models. Its proposed solution is a new, synthetic text generator that can transform proprietary data into something much more useful for AI developers. The startup says that finding data to ...
With InsightEngine, Vast Data aims to be the data operating system for AI
Data storage company Vast Data Inc. is putting the infrastructure in place for enterprises that want to use data retrieval to enhance the capabilities of their artificial intelligence systems. Today it announced the launch of Vast InsightEngine with Nvidia, set to enter general availability early next year. It will allow organizations to ingest, process and ...
Anaconda brings the power of large language models to laptops
The popular open-source data science platform provider Anaconda Inc. said today it’s bringing the power of advanced large language models to desktop computers with the launch of AI Navigator. It’s a new desktop application that enables users to run a selection of LLMs for artificial intelligence applications locally on their laptop or personal computer, without ...
DigitalOcean launches Nvidia H100 GPU-powered virtual machines for small developer teams
DigitalOcean Holdings Inc., the cloud infrastructure platform provider for small developer teams, said its latest artificial intelligence compute services powered by Nvidia Corp.’s H100 graphics processing units are now generally available. The DigitalOcean GPU Droplets are H100 GPU-powered virtual machines available in single- and multi-node configurations, designed for AI use cases including experimentation, training and ...
Eon raises $127M to simplify access to cloud data backups
Cloud data backup specialist Eon exited stealth mode today, saying the time is right for it to reveal its plans to disrupt the data protection market. It’s extremely confident in its ability to do that, after raising an impressive $127 million since its founding in January. The money comes from not one funding round, but three, ...
Liquid AI debuts new LFM-based models that seem to outperform most traditional large language models
Artificial intelligence startup and MIT spinoff Liquid AI Inc. today launched its first set of generative AI models, and they’re notably different from competing models because they’re built on a fundamentally new architecture. The new models are being called “Liquid Foundation Models,” or LFMs, and they’re said to deliver impressive performance that’s on a par ...