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Microsoft expands AI plugins and copilot ecosystem for developers
Microsoft Corp. announced a major expansion of its artificial intelligence plugins ecosystem today, saying it will adopt the same open plugin standard that OpenAI LP uses for ChatGPT across the entirety of its copilot offerings. At the same time the company revealed a host of new copilot tools, which are applications that use generative AI ...
Elastic to power generative AI models with Elasticsearch Relevance Engine
Enterprise search technology provider Elastic N.V. is aiming to help companies build and integrate generative artificial intelligence models powered by their own corporate data with the launch of its new Elasticsearch Relevance Engine today. ESRE, as the new tool is called, is powered by built-in vector search and transformer models that combine the latest innovations ...
Zoom beats expectations and grows its customer base, but revenue barely rises
Shares of Zoom Video Communications Inc. gained slightly in extended trading today as the videoconferencing software firm delivered better-than-expected first-quarter results. The company reported a net income of $15.4 million for the quarter, a big improvement from three months earlier when it posted its first net loss since 2018. Earnings before certain costs such as ...
Axelera AI extends Series A funding round to $50M
Artificial intelligence-focused computer chip startup Axelera AI B.V. said today that a number of new investors have joined its oversubscribed Series A funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $50 million. The new investors include CDP Venture Capital, Verve Ventures and a consortium known as Fractionelera, which was created by a number of interested ...
Meta AI open-sources tools for self-supervised training of speech recognition models
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence research team today said it has open-sourced a new project called Massively Multilingual Speech, which aims to overcome the challenges of creating accurate and reliable speech recognition models. AI models that can recognize human speech and respond to it clearly have a lot of potential, especially for people who rely ...
Google search competitor Neeva shuts down to focus on enterprise
The alternative search engine startup Neeva Inc. has announced that it’s shutting down its consumer product, just three days after reports emerged that it’s holding talks with Snowflake Inc. and Databricks Inc. about a potential acquisition. In a blog post on Saturday, Neeva co-founders Sridhar Ramaswamy and Vivek Raghunathan said “building search engines is hard.” ...
ExtraHop’s new tool helps companies protect against ChatGPT data leaks
Cloud-based network detection company ExtraHop Networks Inc. said today it’s helping boost visibility for organizations whose employees are using generative artificial intelligence tools such as OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT. To accomplish that, it announced a new tool called Reveal(x) that helps companies better understand their risk exposure and ensure generative AI is being used in adherence with ...
OpenAI launches a ChatGPT app for iOS, with an Android version coming soon
ChatGPT is coming to Apple iPhones and iPads with the launch of its official iOS application. The app was announced today by OpenAI LP, the creator of ChatGPT, which said it’s free to use and can even respond to voice commands and prompts with the help of a speech recognition model called Whisper. According to ...
Meta Platforms unveils next-generation AI infrastructure and data center designs
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. has lifted the lid on what its next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructure will look like, showcasing its newest training and inference accelerator and various other bits of futuristic hardware at its AI Infra @Scale event today. Meta’s head of global infrastructure Santosh Janardhan explained that the company’s AI compute requirements are ...
Lumeus.ai raises $6M to enable universal zero-trust security across clouds and on-premises data centers
Zero-trust networking startup Lumeus.ai, officially known as Okulis Inc., is launching today armed with $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Tola Capital and saw participation from pre-seed investors Emergent Ventures and First Rays Ventures. Lumeus.ai is the creator of what it says is a “Universal Zero-Trust platform” that employs artificial intelligence ...