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British quantum engineering startup Riverlane Ltd. said today it has closed on a £15 million ($18.65 million) round of funding. The Series B round, which significantly boosts its valuation, will enable it to continue innovating until it becomes cash flow positive, the …
Moderna to harness IBM’s quantum computers and advanced AI models for mRNA vaccine research
The biotechnology and pharmaceutical firm Moderna Inc., best known for its COVID-19 vaccine, said today it’s working with IBM Corp. to explore ways in which quantum computing and generative artificial intelligence can advance its mRNA technology. The two companies have signed an …
Retrocausal’s Kaizen Copilot to enhance industrial manufacturing operations with generative AI
Manufacturing process management software provider Retrocausal Inc. jumped onto the generative artificial intelligence bandwagon today, announcing the launch of its new LeanGPT service. LeanGPT is a collection of proprietary foundation models that are specifically designed for the manufacturing domain. It powers a …
Distributed database Ditto raises $45M to help apps sync data offline
Distributed database startup DittoLive Inc. said today it has closed on a $45 million early-stage round of funding to help enterprises synchronize application data in situations where there’s no internet connectivity. The Series A round was led by Acrew Capital and saw …
Atlassian infuses generative AI into Confluence and Jira collaboration platforms
Atlassian Corp. Plc today became the latest technology company to add generative artificial intelligence smarts to its flagship collaborative software offerings. The new technology, Atlassian Intelligence, is based partly on in-house models the company gained via its acquisition of Percept.AI in January 2022. …
Comet brings prompt tuning tools for large language model development to its platform
European machine learning operations startup Comet ML Inc. is evolving its MLOps platform to work with large language models of the kind that powers ChatGPT. The startup said today it’s introducing a number of “cutting-edge” LLM operations tools in its platform to …
Microsoft and Epic partner to bring GPT-4 and generative AI to healthcare providers
Healthcare software giant Epic Systems Corp. said Monday it’s partnering with Microsoft Corp. to embrace generative artificial intelligence through its Azure AI platform. Under the partnership, Epic will integrate OpenAI LP services such as GTP-4 into its electronic healthcare records, Epic said …
European Union gives green light to €43B Chips Act
The European Union’s plan to boost computer chip production is ready to move ahead after the so-called Chips Act was given the green light by politicians today. The Chips Act is a range of measures that is designed to boost the EU’s …
European lawmakers call for tighter controls on powerful general-purpose AI
A group of 12 European Parliament members has called on the European Union to create a new set of rules aimed at regulating a wider range of artificial intelligence tools. The proposed “AI Act” would cover AI tools beyond those identified as …
Didimo debuts generative AI-powered video game character creation tool
Digital human avatar technology provider Didimo Inc. is bringing generative artificial intelligence to the world of video game character creation. With today’s launch of Popul8, Didimo says, game developers now have a simple way to create hundreds of unique game characters in …