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Data observability startup Metaplane, officially known as Quantifai Inc., said today in a blog post that it has closed on an $8.4 million seed funding round led by Khosla Venture. Other participants included Y Combinator and Flybridge Capital Partners, as did Vercel …
Autonomous vehicle software startup Oxbotica raises $140M
U.K.-based autonomous vehicle software creator Oxbotica Ltd. said today it has closed on a hefty $140 million round of funding, in readiness to deploy its Universal Autonomy platform in numerous commercial and industrial domains across the world. Today’s Series C round was …
AI unicorn ScaleAI, valued at $7.3 billion, lays off 20% of its staff
San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup ScaleAI Inc. has become the latest tech firm to announce a wave of layoffs, saying today it let go of 20% of its staff this week. The announcement came in a blog post from founder and Chief …
Nvidia debuts new DGX H100 systems powered by Intel’s 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable chips
Nvidia Corp. today announced a refreshed lineup of Nvidia Hopper accelerated computing systems powered by its own H100 Tensor Core graphics processing units, as well as by the 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors that were launched by Intel Corp. today. In addition, dozens …
Chronosphere, creator of a cloud-native observability system designed to scale, raises $115M
Cloud-native observability startup Chronosphere Inc. said today it has closed on a $115 million round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $343 million. The Series C round was led by new investors GV and Geodesic Capital, bringing the company’s …
DataRobot makes life easier for data scientists with integrated AI model notebooks
Artificial intelligence startup DataRobot Inc. today announced the availability of a new feature called DataRobot Notebooks, a fully integrated notebooks solution within the DataRobot AI platform. The aim is to make it easier for data scientists to create a notebook with one …
Apple reportedly hoping to ditch Qualcomm and launch its own modem chips in 2024
Apple Inc. is looking to reduce its reliance on the chipmaker Qualcomm Inc., and to do that it has been working on developing its own modem chip for a number of years, according to a report today in Bloomberg. That work has progressed, …
Worlds Enterprises raises $21.2M to build digital twins in the industrial metaverse
Industrial metaverse startup Worlds Enterprises Inc. is hoping to onboard more enterprises into the world of digital twins after closing on a $21.2 million Series A1 round of funding today. The round was led by Moneta Ventures and saw the participation of …
Oxford Ionics raises $30M to build highly scalable quantum processors based on trapped ions
British quantum computing startup Oxford Ionics Ltd. said today it has raised $30 million in an early-stage funding round led by some of the world’s leading quantum technology investors. The Series A round, led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Bravoos Investment Advisers, …
Qualcomm partners with Iridium to enable satellite-based messaging on Android smartphones
Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. said today it’s partnering with Iridium Communications Inc. to bring satellite-based messaging to high-end Android smartphones, allowing them to communicate without WiFi-based internet connectivity. The companies said the new technology has a number of potential use cases, including enabling …