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Mistral AI debuts Mixtral 8x22B, one of the most powerful open-source AI models yet
The Paris-based open-source generative artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI today released another big large language model in an effort to keep pace with the industry’s big boys. The new Mixtral 8x22B model is expected to outperform the company’s previous model, Mixtral 8x7B. Many experts considered it to be an extremely worthy competitor to better-known contenders ...
PVML raises $8M to secure access to sensitive data with Differential Privacy tech
PVML Ltd., an Israeli startup that’s using artificial intelligence technology to enhance access to organizations’ most sensitive data, said today it has closed on an $8 million seed funding round. The lead investor was NFX, and it was supported by FJ Labs and Gefen Capital. The startup has created a secure data access platform that ...
Secretive robotics startup Collaborative Robotics closes on $100M round
The robotics startup Collaborative Robotics Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper $100 million round of funding. Today’s Series B round was led by General Catalyst and saw the participation of a host of other new investors, including Bison Ventures, Industry Ventures and Lux Capital, plus existing investors Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, Mayo ...
Financial operations platform FloQast raises $100M in late-stage funding
Finance and accounting operations startup FloQast Inc. wants to enhance its platform with more artificial intelligence capabilities after closing on a $100 million late-stage funding round. Announced today, the Series E round was led by existing backer ICONIQ Growth and saw participation from new investors such as BDT & MSD Partners and World Innovation Lab, ...
Georgia Tech announces Nvidia-powered AI supercomputer for students
The Georgia Institute of Technology said today it has partnered with Nvidia Corp. to create an artificial intelligence supercomputer hub that’s dedicated to teaching students. Called AI Makerspace, it has been deployed at Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering where it will serve undergraduate students, giving them access to the kind of computing power that was ...
Onum raises $28M to help organizations extract their most valuable data in real time
Big data observability startup Onum said today it’s ready to accelerate its ambitious growth plans after closing on a $28 million early-stage round of funding. The Series A round was led by one of Europe’s top specialist business-to-business software investors, Dawn Capital, and saw participation from Kibo Ventures and Insight Partners. It comes less than a ...
Databricks delivers enhanced data analytics and intelligence for the energy sector
Big-data company Databricks Inc. today announced the immediate availability of a dedicated data intelligence platform for the energy industry, designed to enable customers in the energy sector to harness enormous streams of data and use them for business insights and to feed generative artificial intelligence workloads. The Databricks Data Intelligence Platform for Energy, as it’s officially ...
AI book publishing platform Spines raises $6.5M to disrupt centuries-old industry
Israeli startup Spines is looking to disrupt the centuries-old publishing industry after closing on a $6.5 million seed funding round today. The round was led by Aleph and saw participation from existing investors M-Fund, LionTree LLC and Dan Senor, co-author of the best-seller “Startup Nation.” Spines, officially known as Boox Publishing Technologies Inc., has created an ...
Google Cloud targets general-purpose and specialized workloads with new virtual machine families
Google Cloud is looking to address the very specific requirements of its customers with a series of updates to its workload-optimized compute infrastructure portfolio. The new virtual machine offerings, announced at Google Cloud Next ‘24, span a wide range of use cases, including general-purpose workloads, power-efficient workloads and specialized applications such as SAP deployments and ...
Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer cloud infrastructure gets new GPUs, TPUs, optimized storage and more
Google Cloud is revamping its AI Hypercomputer architecture with significant enhancements across the board to support rising demand for generative artificial intelligence applications that are becoming increasingly pervasive in enterprise workloads. At Google Cloud Next ’24 today, the company announced updates to almost every layer of the AI Hypercomputer cloud architecture, with new virtual machines ...