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AI startup Nomic raises $17M to build its open-source alternative to GPT-4
Artificial intelligence startup Nomic AI said today it has closed on a $17 million early-stage funding round. The Series A investment, which values Nomic at around $100 million, was led by Coatue and saw participation from Contrary Capital, Betaworks Ventures, SV Angel, Story Ventures and Factorial Capital, plus a host of angel investors. New York-based ...
Auvik debuts SaaS management tool to combat shadow IT
Auvik Networks Inc., a well-funded provider of cloud-based network management software, said today it’s lending its expertise to help companies deal with an increasingly troublesome problem known as software-as-a-service sprawl. The company announced a new service called Auvik SaaS Management, which provides organizations with much greater visibility into their use of SaaS products and helps ...
Stability AI releases sketch-to-image generative AI tool
Stability AI Ltd. is adding to its arsenal of generative artificial intelligence tools with the launch of Stable Doodle today. The company said it’s a sketch-to-image tool that works by converting simple sketches into more dynamic images, and it’s aimed at everyone from creative professionals to hobbyist artists. The launch of Stable Doodle builds on ...
Zluri raises $20M to help enterprises deal with SaaS application sprawl
Software-as-a-service management startup Zluri Technologies Private Ltd. has closed on a $20 million funding round that brings its total amount raised since its founding in 2020 to $32 million. Today’s Series B round was led by Lightspeed and saw the participation of existing investors MassMutual Ventures, Endiya Partners and Kalaari Capital. India-based Zluri is the ...
Elon Musk is leading a new AI startup that aims to understand the universe and compete with ChatGPT
Elon Musk today revealed that he has founded yet another company, an artificial intelligence startup called xAI Corp. that will compete against ChatGPT maker OpenAI LP, Google LLC and others. It’s unclear what the startup’s specific objectives are or what kind of AI it intends to focus on, but on its website it boldly proclaims ...
Dell announces new advisory services for Microsoft customers
Dell Technologies Inc. announced today it’s launching a portfolio of new services specifically for Microsoft Corp. technology customers. The services cover areas such as multicloud, modern workforces, applications and data, and resiliency and security. They’re aimed at helping customers extract more value out of their Microsoft technology investments and enhance innovation. In a blog post, ...
Machine learning startup Deci open-sources tool to analyze AI training dataset health
Deep learning automation startup Deci AI Ltd. today announced the launch of a free and open-source artificial intelligence tool that can profile datasets for model training purposes. The company said in its announcement that DataGradients enables data scientists quickly to generate insights on datasets they’re planning to use to train new AI models, in order ...
IOTech’s Edge Connect enables real-time connectivity for industrial edge devices
Edge computing startup IOTech Systems Ltd. today announced a new service called Edge Connect to help organizations collect large amounts of data in complex, multiprotocol industrial environments. The company is looking to cater to organizations that deploy industrial internet of things applications at facilities in the manufacturing, energy and other sectors. It says IoT apps, ...
Akamai expands its Connected Cloud with new data centers in US, France and India
Akamai Technologies Inc., the content delivery network firm that’s morphing into a cloud infrastructure services provider, today announced the opening of three new cloud data center facilities in Paris, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, with Seattle and Chennai, India, opening later this quarter. They’re part of its mission to deliver a new kind of cloud that’s designed ...
Salesforce plans 9% price hike for some of its most popular cloud products
Customer relationship management software giant Salesforce Inc. is planning to raise the prices of some of its most popular cloud and marketing tools in August, by an average of 9%. Salesforce said today that the price hikes for products including Tableau Software, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Industries will affect both its new ...
