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Former OpenAI and Tesla exec Andrej Karpathy dives into education with AI-native school
Andrej Karpathy, a prominent artificial intelligence researcher who previously served as the head of AI at Tesla Inc. in between two stints at OpenAI, has announced plans to launch a new “AI-native” education startup. The computer scientist and occasional educator revealed the launch of Eureka Labs LLC in a post on X today, describing his ...
Docyt AI debuts world’s first AI bookkeeper to revitalize the accounting profession
Artificial intelligence-powered accounting automation technology startup Docyt AI Inc. has announced the debut in beta of what it says is the world’s first AI bookkeeper. It’s essentially a kind of virtual assistant for accounting teams, designed to streamline back office accounting operations by automating previously manual tasks that are time-consuming. By enabling continuous reconciliation of ...
Kore.AI’s new platform GALE helps to advance experimentation with LLMs using no-code tools
Artificial intelligence application development startup Kore.ai Inc. has announced the launch of a new platform called “GALE,” which makes it simple to create versatile generative AI apps using a simple, no-code, drag-and-drop interface. Users can choose from a library of more than 30 large language models, the company said. Kore.ai is best known for its Experience ...
Microsoft’s experimental SpreadsheetLLM helps AI better understand spreadsheets
Researchers at Microsoft Corp. today released details of an experimental artificial intelligence model called SpreadsheetLLM, and as the name suggests, it’s designed to work with spreadsheets such as Excel and Google Sheets. The model, discussed in a July 12 research paper posted onto Arxiv.org, is aimed at solving the challenges of applying AI to spreadsheets, which ...
Cerabyte launches prototype ceramic-based data storage tech for low-cost, long-term archival data
Data storage technology startup Ceramic Data Solutions Holding GmbH, better known as Cerabyte, said today it’s bringing its novel ceramic data storage offering to the U.S. market, as part of its ambition to transform the way long-term archival data is stored. The startup is pioneering the concept of “Ceramic Nano Memory,” which makes use of ...
SoftBank buys Graphcore, the British chipmaking startup, to fuel its AI ambitions
Graphcore Ltd., the U.K.-based artificial intelligence chip developer that’s hoping to take on Nvidia Corp., has been acquired by the Japanee technology giant SoftBank Group Corp. The deal, announced today, will help Softbank, founded by Masayoshi Son, accelerate its multibillion-dollar push into the AI industry, which has now become its main area of focus. Founded in ...
Intel Capital leads $15M round in AI construction tech startup Buildots
Buildots Ltd., an artificial intelligence company that uses computer vision to create digital twins of construction sites, said today it has closed on a $15 million investment led by Intel Capital. OG Tech Partners and a number of previous investors also participated in the round, which brings the startup’s total amount raised to $121 million. ...
Patronus AI open-sources Lynx, a real-time LLM-based judge of AI hallucinations
Patronus AI Inc., a startup that provides tools for enterprises to assess the reliability of their artificial intelligence models, today announced the debut of a powerful new “hallucination detection” tool that can help companies to identify when their chatbots are going haywire. The company says the new model, called Lynx, represents a major breakthrough in ...
AI data reliability startup Soda Data raises $14M
The artificial intelligence-powered data quality startup Soda Data NV said today it has closed on a new $14 million funding round, despite claiming it has already achieved financial self-sufficiency over the past 12 months. Today’s round was led by existing investors and strategic partners Singular and Point Nine. It comes around three-and-a-half years after the ...
Alphabet calls off multibillion-dollar HubSpot acquisition
Google LLC’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has reportedly abandoned its plans to acquire the publicly listed marketing software firm HubSpot Inc. Bloomberg today cited “people familiar with the matter” as saying that negotiations over the deal, which had been ongoing since at least April, have now been called off. HubSpot’s stock fell more than 11% today ...