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The online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. has taken another foray into generative artificial intelligence, launching a new tool that helps sellers to create listings for their products. The new tool was announced today at Accelerate 2023, Amazon’s annual seller conference, after being …
Port raises $18M to simplify DevOps processes for developer teams
Internal developer portal startup Port, officially known as GetPort.io Ltd., said today it has closed on an $18 million Series A funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $23 million. Today’s round was led by Team8 and saw participation from its …
In antitrust case, Google insists its dominance of internet search is lawful
Google LLC today insisted that it has not broken any laws to maintain its dominance of the internet search industry, saying that its search engine remains the world’s most popular thanks to its quality. In a summation of its longtime stance, the …
Nvidia and Xanadu power quantum computing simulations with GPUs
Nvidia Corp. is working with a Toronto-based startup called Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. to enable quantum computing simulations to be run on supercomputers for the first time. In a blog post published today, Nvidia said researchers are using the latest version of …
Enfabrica raises $125M to scale up GPUs, memory, networks and storage for distributed AI workloads
Artificial intelligence networking infrastructure startup Enfabrica Corp. said today it has raised a bumper $125 million in new funding to build out its highly efficient server fabric chip technology. The startup reckons it can solve critical network, input/output and memory scaling problems …
Edge AI chip startup Axelera debuts Metis AI Platform
Edge artificial intelligence chip startup Axelera AI B.V. today announced it’s now shipping its Metis AI Platform to customers in its early access program. Founded in 2021 and backed by more than $50 million in funding, Axelera AI is the developer of …
Machine learning chipmaker SiMa.ai enables low-code AI model development at the edge
SiMa Technologies Inc., developer of a purpose-built machine learning system-on-a-chip for edge devices, today announced the availability of its free visual development environment that enables developers to get started easily building artificial intelligence models that live at the network edge. The startup …
ESG startup Optera raises $12M to help enterprises reduce carbon impact
Environmental, social and governance technology startup Optera, officially known as Point380 Inc. said today it has closed on a $12 million early-stage funding round to grow its enterprise-focused ESG and carbon management platform. The Series A round was led by Next Frontier …
Nvidia claims first place in MLCommon’s first benchmarks for LLM inference, but Intel is a close second
MLCommons, the open engineering consortium for benchmarking the performance of chipsets for artificial intelligence, today unveiled the results of a new test that’s geared to determine how quickly hardware can run the most advanced AI models. Nvidia Corp.’s most advanced chips were …
Oracle’s revenue comes up short of expectations and its stock slides
Shares of the database company Oracle Corp. took a pounding in after-hours trading today as the company reported sales that missed expectations and provided lighter revenue guidance than analysts had hoped. The company reported net income of $2.42 billion in its fiscal …