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Botco.ai launches GenAI Chat Cloud with enterprise-grade privacy and security
Startup Botco.ai Inc. is making its debut in the increasingly crowded generative artificial intelligence market today with the launch of its GenAI Chat Cloud platform. It’s designed to enable enterprises to put generative AI to use in various aspects of their business, from customer service to marketing and beyond. The Botco.ai GenAI Chat Cloud is a ...
MongoDB Atlas evolves to support generative AI application development
MongoDB said today it’s beefing up its cloud database MongoDB Atlas with a series of new products and features that it says will make it easier for developers to build modern applications. They include new generative artificial intelligence capabilities for MongoDB’s Vector Search feature, enabling the retrieval and personalization of highly relevant information, Search Nodes ...
Accenture to collaborate with AWS, Microsoft and Google on generative AI technologies
Global technology consulting giant Accenture Plc said in a series of announcements today that it’s expanding its strategic partnerships with the three biggest cloud computing providers to help enterprise customers take advantage of the latest developments in artificial intelligence. The expanded partnerships build on Accenture’s plan to invest $3 billion into its Data & AI ...
Intel bags $4.3B by selling 20% stake in chip manufacturing technology supplier IMS
Intel Corp. said today it has agreed to sell a 20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication GmbH, a key supplier of chip manufacturing equipment, to the private equity firm Bain Capital. The chipmaking giant bought the Austrian company for an undisclosed price in 2015, having first invested in it back in 2009. Since the close of ...
Google slams Microsoft for locking customers into Azure cloud platform
Google LLC has accused its longtime cloud rival Microsoft Corp. of engaging in anticompetitive behavior in an official complaint to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. The internet giant said in a letter to the FTC today that Microsoft employs software licensing restrictions that effectively force customers to use its Azure cloud computing services in order ...
Fero Labs, which uses AI to reduce carbon emissions in manufacturing, raises $15M
Artificial intelligence-powered manufacturing process optimization startup Fero Labs Inc. today closed on a $15 million growth funding round. Climate Investment led the round, with participation from Blackhorn Ventures, Innovation Endeavors and DI Technology, bringing Fero Labs’ total amount raised to $30 million. Fero Labs is the creator of a “white-box” AI platform that helps engineers ...
Continuous software delivery startup Harness deploys generative AI assistant to ease developer headaches
Continuous software delivery startup Harness Inc. said today it’s now able to harness the potential of generative artificial intelligence to help users automate many key aspects of software development. The company says its AI Development Assistant will be integrated across all of its workflows and capabilities, including continuous integration, continuous deployment, cloud cost management and ...
DevOps platform-as-a-service startup Render raises $50M
DevOps cloud platform startup Render Services Inc. said today it has closed on a $50 million funding round, bringing its total amount raised to date to $76.8 million. Today’s Series B round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners and included participation from existing backers such as Addition, General Catalyst and the South Park Commons Fund. ...
HPE debuts GreenLake for LLMs, an advanced cloud for generative AI workloads
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is expanding its flagship HPE GreenLake portfolio to provide access to large language models that power generative artificial intelligence. Enterprise will now be able to access LLMs on-demand via a multitenant supercomputing cloud service in order to train, fine-tune and deploy AI models via a sustainable supercomputing platform, HPE said. HPE ...
HPE expands GreenLake with new cloud services, SaaS offerings and private cloud options
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. said today it’s massively expanding the capabilities of its HPE Greenlake edge-to-cloud platform, integrating software from OpsRamp Inc., the infrastructure monitoring startup it acquired earlier this year. It’s also adding new software-as-a-service offerings for backup and machine learning, expanding the HPE Greenlake private cloud portfolio, and extending its partnerships with Amazon ...