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Couchbase enables more nimble agentic AI development with Nvidia’s NIM
Database company Couchbase Inc. is enhancing the capabilities of its artificial intelligence agent-building tools, Capella AI Model Services, by integrating them with Nvidia Corp.’s NIM microservices. The update will make it easier for Couchbase Capella database users to create so-called agentic AI applications that go beyond the capabilities of traditional chatbots by performing tasks on ...
Google expands availability of Deep Research, an AI tool that wades deep into any topic
Google LLC said today it’s making its experimental artificial intelligence research tool, called Deep Research, available to Gemini Advanced users via the Google Workspace platform. A relatively new feature that was announced last year, it has the ability to explore complex topics and conduct intensive research about them, answering very specific questions the user might ...
Strong earnings and revenue beat fires up Five9’s stock
Shares of the call center software company Five9 Inc. shot up in extended trading after it delivered a solid earnings and revenue beat in its latest financial report, showing strong momentum across its core business. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 78 cents per share, while revenue for the ...
Dropbox’s stock slides on weak forecast and stalled customer acquisition
File-sharing company Dropbox Inc. delivered fourth-quarter earnings and revenue that topped Wall Street’s estimates, but its revenue growth was painfully slow and guidance for the current quarter came up light, sending investors scurrying away in after-hours trading. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 73 cents per share, beating the ...
IBM Consulting offers enterprises an easier path to agentic AI
IBM Corp.’s consulting division is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence with the launch today of a new service that can help enterprises automate key business processes with AI agents on their cloud platform of choice. AI Integration Services is an IBM Consulting service that will, in the company’s own words, help customers build ...
Baseten grabs $75M to crank up high-performance inference for AI workloads
BaseTen Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that’s focused on high-performance inference for large language models and other AI applications, said today it has closed on a $75 million Series C funding round led by IVP and Spark Capital. The round, which also saw participation from Greylock, Conviction, South Park Commons, 01 Advisors and Lachy ...
OpenEvidence raises $75M to become the ChatGPT for doctors
The healthcare focused chatbot startup OpenEvidence has closed on $75 million in funding from the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital Operations LLC in a round that values it at more than $1 billion. The round, which came to light today via CNBC, brings OpenEvidence’s total amount raised to more than $100 million, with earlier funding ...
RISC-V chip startup AheadComputing raises $21.5M to fix CPU bottlenecks
The newly minted chipmaking startup AheadComputing Inc. said today it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding to develop and commercialize a new artificial intelligence chipset based on the open-source architecture RISC-V. Today’s round was led by Eclipse and saw participation from a host of other investors, including Maverick Capital, Fundomo and EPIQ Capital Group, ...
Sanas gets $65M in funding to expand its real-time accent translation software
Sanas.AI Inc., a real-time accent translation startup that helps non-native speakers speak more clearly, said today it has raised $65 million in a Series B round of funding. The round brings Sanas’s total amount raised to north of $100 million. It was led by Quadrille Capital and saw participation from investors such as Insight Partners, ...
Box adds agentic AI features and makes it easier for customers to track AI spending
Box Inc., the content management company that helps organizations to manage their files in the cloud, says it’s expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities to more users and adding a new mechanism for tracking AI-related costs, so customers can keep tabs on their spending. The announcement came as the company released yet more AI features into ...