Mike Wheatley, Author at SiliconANGLE

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AI voice cloning startup ElevenLabs raises $180M in Series C funding round

By Mike Wheatley Jan 26, 2025

Updated: The synthetic voice startup Eleven Labs Inc. closed on a bumper $180 million Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to between $3 billion and $3.3 billion. According to a Friday report by…

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Report: ByteDance sets aside about $20B for AI spending this year

By Mike Wheatley Jan 23, 2025

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance Ltd. has set aside 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) for its capital expenditure this year, and the bulk of that money will be spent on boosting its artificial intelligence capabilities,…

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Palona AI gets $10M to build more reliable customer service chatbots that don’t make mistakes

By Mike Wheatley Jan 23, 2025

A trio of artificial intelligence engineers who previously led projects at Google LLC, Meta Platforms Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. say they have raised $10 million for a new startup that aims to…

AI

Trump signs new executive order on AI development, overturning Biden-era restrictions

By Mike Wheatley Jan 23, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for the development of artificial intelligence systems that are “free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas” in his latest executive order. The order, signed earlier today, is…

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Baya Systems raises $36M to transform AI chiplet design

By Mike Wheatley Jan 23, 2025

System-on-chip design startup Baya Systems Inc. said today it has closed on $36 million fuding to support its operational growth and accelerate the development of its software portfolio to meet the needs of the…

AI

WebAI’s Companion is an AI assistant for enterprise employees that runs privately on their own devices

By Mike Wheatley Jan 23, 2025

The privacy-focused artificial intelligence development startup webAI Inc. said today it’s rolling out a new AI-powered assistant called Companion to help large organizations “supercharge” their productivity. Companion, webAI claims, is a “breakthrough” AI assistant…

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AI procurement management software startup Vertice raises $50M

By Mike Wheatley Jan 22, 2025

Procurement software startup Vertice Technology Inc. said today it has finalized a $50 million funding round led by Lakestar, bringing its total amount raised to more than $100 million, and its valuation to a…

AI

Eleos gets $60M in funding to transform behavioral healthcare with AI agents

By Mike Wheatley Jan 22, 2025

Eleos Health Inc. said today it has closed on a $60 million Series C round of funding, and will use the money to continue its mission of trying to transform the way behavioral healthcare is…

AI

DigitalOcean dives into agentic AI creation, making it accessible to every developer

By Mike Wheatley Jan 22, 2025

The small developer team-focused cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. has become the latest company to embrace the agentic AI trend, launching a new GenAI Platform that enables teams to build and deploy AI agents…

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Diesel Labs blends generative AI chat with big-data analysis to create synthetic focus groups for marketing teams

By Mike Wheatley Jan 22, 2025

Business intelligence startup Diesel Labs Inc. is merging generative artificial intelligence chat capabilities with its enormous, proprietary dataset on consumer attitudes to create a new tool called PanelAI that will deliver what it says…

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AI voice cloning startup ElevenLabs raises $180M in Series C funding round

Report: ByteDance sets aside about $20B for AI spending this year

Palona AI gets $10M to build more reliable customer service chatbots that don’t make mistakes

Trump signs new executive order on AI development, overturning Biden-era restrictions

Baya Systems raises $36M to transform AI chiplet design

WebAI’s Companion is an AI assistant for enterprise employees that runs privately on their own devices

Eleos gets $60M in funding to transform behavioral healthcare with AI agents

DigitalOcean dives into agentic AI creation, making it accessible to every developer

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