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Subscribers who pay for premium features with Google LLC’s Workspace productivity tools are getting more bang for their buck with the addition of new generative artificial intelligence capabilities powered by Gemini, the company’s most advanced large language model. In an update posted …
Novity grabs $7.8M in funding to streamline industrial predictive maintenance with AI
Predictive maintenance technology startup Novity Inc. said today it’s hoping to expand into the chemicals, manufacturing, and water and environmental industries after closing on a $7.8 million round of funding. The round was led by WERU Investment and saw participation from other …
AI-driven ad targeting startup Qloo raises $25M
Qloo Inc., a startup that claims to be a pioneer in “cultural AI,” said today it has closed on a new funding round worth $25 million. The Series C round was led by AI Ventures and saw participation from AXA Venture Partners, …
Inference.ai’s new generative AI chatbot takes the guesswork out of GPU sourcing
GPU cloud operator Inference.ai said today its customers can now take advantage of a free generative artificial intelligence-powered assistant to help them select the most appropriate graphics processing unit for their training and inference workloads. The company is one of a growing …
Highway 9 Networks closes $25M funding to deliver more reliable connectivity to any device anywhere
A startup called Highway 9 Networks said today it’s ready to elevate enterprise connectivity to the next level with the industry’s first-ever “mobile cloud,” which promises to deliver extremely reliable cloud-native mobility and services in any location. The company is launching its …
Application observability firm Apica buys telemetry data startup Circonus and adds more funding
Application monitoring and observability startup Apica AB today announced its second acquisition in the space of six months, buying a small telemetry data company called Circonus Inc. for an undisclosed price. The acquisition was revealed alongside a new funding round led by …
RingCentral makes progress toward profitability, but light guidance sends stock lower
Shares of the cloud telephony software provider RingCentral Inc. were trending lower in the extended trading session today, following a somewhat disappointing forecast. Although it beat expectations on earnings and revenue in its latest results, its guidance came up light. The company …
Predibase debuts LoRA Land: 25 open-source LLMs that can be fine-tuned for almost any AI use
Low-code artificial intelligence development platform Predibase Inc. said today it’s introducing a collection of no less than 25 open-source and fine-tuned large language models that it claims can rival, or even outperform OpenAI’s GPT-4. The LLM collection, called LoRA Land, is designed …
Australian supercomputing center deploys Nvidia’s Grace Hopper Superchips for quantum research
Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Center said today it will deploy eight of Nvidia Corp.’s powerful Grace Hopper Superchips nodes to power its open-source CUDA Quantum computing platform in Perth, as part of its mission to push the boundaries of quantum computing research. …
Weak revenue growth, soft guidance send Dropbox’s shares lower
File-sharing company Dropbox Inc. offered weak guidance for the current quarter after only just squeezing past Wall Street’s targets as it delivered its fourth-quarter earnings report, sending its stock down in extended trading today. The company reported earnings before certain costs such …