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Stability AI debuts next-gen photorealistic image generation model
Generative artificial intelligence company Stability AI Ltd. today released an updated version of its popular open-source photorealistic image generation model. London-based Stability AI is the developer of Stable Diffusion, an AI model that can automatically generate realistic-looking images based on text prompts. It’s not the only AI model with that capability, but what differentiates it ...
Snowflake leads $62.9M Series A funding round in data-as-a-service startup Cybersyn
Data-as-a-service startup Cybersyn Inc. exited stealth mode today armed with hefty $69.2 raised through a new early-stage round of funding. The Series A round was led by Snowflake Inc., the cloud data warehouse giant, and saw participation from Coatue and Sequoia Capital. Cybersyn was founded last year by its chief executive, former Coatue head of data science ...
Google Cloud beefs up open-source software security with Assured OSS packages
Google Cloud wants to help improve the security of the most widely used open-source software, and to do so it’s making its Assured Open Source Software service generally available for Java and Python ecosystems. Announced today and available at no cost to users, Assured OSS gives organizations the ability to use exactly the same OSS ...
Rupert raises $8M to get instant, data-based insights to business decision makers
Analytics distribution platform Rupert Inc. said today it’s getting traction after closing on an $8 million seed funding round led by Cortical Ventures and IA Ventures. Citi Ventures and Joule Ventures also participated, along with a host of executives from the enterprise data platform world, including Christopher Lynch, chief executive of AtScale Inc. and Jake ...
Intel Foundry Services partners with Arm to manufacture next-generation mobile chips
Intel Corp. said today its Intel Foundry Services business unit is partnering with the British chip design firm Arm Ltd. to enable semiconductor designers to build low-power systems-on-chip on its cutting-edge manufacturing process. The companies will initially focus on mobile SoC designs before expanding the deal to cover chips for automotive, internet of things, data ...
Canonical launches Charmed Kubeflow MLOps platform on AWS
Ubuntu software developer Canonical Ltd. today launched its machine learning operations toolkit Charmed Kubeflow on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud marketplace. Charmed Kubeflow is available as a software application on AWS, making it simpler for companies to launch and manage machine learning workloads. The software is an enterprise-grade version of Kubeflow, an open-source MLOps toolkit ...
Sony invests in Raspberry Pi to promote sensory AI development at the edge
Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. said today it’s expanding its relationship with Raspberry Pi Ltd., creator of the pocket-sized computing platform of the same name, as part of an initiative that aims to provide developers with greater access to edge-hosted artificial intelligence tools. The partnership will see Sony Semiconductor Solutions make an undisclosed investment in Raspberry ...
Cohere partners with LivePerson to create more reliable generative AI for enterprise deployments
Cohere Inc., a generative artificial intelligence startup that’s seen as one of the main rivals to ChatGPT creator OpenAI LP, said today it’s partnering with LivePerson Inc. to adapt its large language models for enterprise use cases. LivePerson is a leader in conversational AI and chatbots, and the partnership will see the two companies combine ...
Elon Musk secretly working on AI despite calling for six-month development pause
Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk recently co-signed an open letter along with hundreds of others calling for a six-month pause on the development of artificial intelligence technology. But while doing so, he has secretly been investing “tens of millions” of dollars into Twitter’s own AI projects. That’s according to a report by Insider, which ...
Buoyant’s Linkerd 2.13 service mesh release debuts free, automated health checks and more
Service mesh startup Bouyant Inc. announced a new release of Linkerd today that brings new features including automated health monitoring, dynamic request routing based on the Kubernetes Gateway application programming interface, circuit breaking for overloaded services and more. Today’s release comes a week before the first-ever Linkerd Day conference, which will be held in Amsterdam on ...