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Google Cloud joins with biotech startups to accelerate AI-driven drug discovery and scientific research
Google Cloud today announced two new customers that will showcase the advantages of its cloud computing infrastructure for the biotech industry. The new partnerships were announced at the Bio-IT World conference this week, one of the major events on the biotech industry’s calendar. Google Cloud said it’s teaming up with an artificial intelligence startup called ...
Pegasystems offers every worker access to a personalized, generative AI-powered coach
Low-code automation software provider Pegasystems Inc. is enhancing its Pega Infinity portfolio of artificial intelligence tools with the launch of a generative AI-powered “employee mentor” it calls Pega GenAI Coach. Announced today as part of the update Pega Infinity 24.1. release, Pega GenAI Coach is designed to proactively advise workers on whatever task they’re performing, ...
AI is becoming more powerful and more expensive, and people are getting nervous
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence today published the seventh edition of its annual AI Index, one of the most comprehensive reports on the state of the artificial intelligence industry, and its main findings are unsurprising if a bit unsettling. The report finds that AI development is proceeding at breakneck speed as developers churn ...
Akamai expands cloud services with dedicated GPUs for media workloads
The developer-focused cloud computing infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced the availability of a new industry-optimized service based on Nvidia Corp.’s graphics processing units that’s dedicated to media workloads. It leverages the Nvidia RTX 4000 Ada generation GPU to provide maximum performance efficiency and economics for customers in the media industry, encoding, decoding and processing ...
Elon Musk-backed xAI debuts its first multimodal model, Grok-1.5V
The Elon Musk-led artificial intelligence startup xAI Corp. unveiled its first multimodal model late Friday, adding to an AI arms race that never seems to end. It’s called Grok-1.5 Vision or Grok-1.5V, and it goes much further than the original Grok-1 large language model, since it can understand text and also visuals, including things such ...
Simbian raises $10M to automate security operations with generative AI
Simbian Inc., a startup that has developed what it says is the first generative artificial intelligence copilot for cybersecurity teams, revealed today that it has closed on an oversubscribed, $10 million seed funding round to launch its new platform. Today’s round was led by security and AI-focused investors such as Cota Capital, Icon Ventures, Firebolt ...
PeerDB raises $3.6M to accelerate PostgreSQL data movement
Startup PeerDB Inc., which has built a data movement platform specifically for open-source PostgreSQL database management systems, said today it has closed on a seed funding round worth $3.6 million. Leading the investment was 8VC, and it was joined by Y Combinator, Wayfinder Ventures, Webb Investment Network, Flex Capital, Rogue Capital, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective and ...
New bill aims to force AI firms to disclose use of copyrighted material
Lawmakers in the U.S. Congress introduced a new bill on Tuesday that would force artificial intelligence companies such as OpenAI and Google LLC to reveal exactly what copyrighted material they use to train their large language models, which power generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard. The legislation is the latest in a series ...
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 ...