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Sahara AI Ltd., the creator of a nascent decentralized artificial intelligence data network, today announced the launch of its new Data Services Platform, which allows everyone to contribute to the AI ecosystem by collecting, labeling, curating and refining datasets for model training. …
OpenAI makes the full version of its o1 reasoning model available, but only to some developers
OpenAI said today it’s making the full version of its o1 reasoning model available to its most committed developer customers. Today’s announcement came on the ninth day of its holiday-themed press blitz, known as “12 Days of OpenAI,” where the company said it’s rolling …
Nuon raises $16.5M to transform software-as-a-service deployment
Nuon Inc. said today it has raised $16.5 million in funding to coincide with the launch of an early access version of its novel Bring Your Own Cloud platform for third-party software providers. Today’s round was led by M12 and saw participation …
Google expands Code Assist with support for third-party data sources
Google LLC is updating its Code Assist tools that are designed to help increase developed productivity from within integrated development environments such as JetBrains and Visual Studio Code. In a blog post, Google Director of Product Management Ryan Salva and Group Product …
Starboard Systems gets $5.5M funding to automate logistics and quotes for freight forwarders
Logistics optimization software startup Starboard Systems Inc. wants to help freight companies to eliminate global supply chain complexities after closing on a $5.5 million round of funding. The money comes from new investor Eclipse and existing backers Garuda Ventures and Everywhere Ventures. …
Axelera brings its low-powered RISC-V chips to Arduino’s miniature computers to run AI at the edge
Edge artificial intelligence chip startup Axelera AI B.V. today revealed it’s partnering with Arduino s.r.l., a maker of specialized, open-source microcontroller boards, to support companies trying to implement high-performance artificial intelligence workloads at the network edge. The partnership will make edge AI …
Keepit keeps raising money, closing on $50M in its latest funding round
Denmark-based cloud-native data protection and backup company Keepit A/S said today it has closed on its biggest funding round yet, raising $50 million. The round was led by One Peak and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, and brings Keepit’s total …
Databricks reportedly closing on $9.5B mega funding round
Big data software specialist Databricks Inc. is reportedly closing on what Reuters described Friday as “one of the largest venture capital funding rounds in history.” The company is said to be engaged in talks with investors over a twice oversubscribed funding round that …
Meta Platforms joins forces with Elon Musk to try to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition
Meta Platforms Inc. has joined Elon Musk in his efforts to derail OpenAI’s plans to convert itself into a for-profit company. On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Meta had penned a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, arguing that …
Embedded analytics startup Embeddable raises €6M in seed funding
London-based startup Embeddable, whose software makes it easy to embed interactive, customer-facing analytics within any application, said today has closed on a €6 million ($6.28 million) seed funding round. The company, officially known as TMD Technology Ltd., said today’s round was led …