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Meta is building the world’s fastest AI supercomputer to power metaverse ambitions
Meta Platforms Inc. is well on the way to building what it says will be the world’s fastest artificial intelligence-focused supercomputer to tackle new, advanced workloads involving natural language processing and computer vision. The company revealed today the AI Research SuperCluster or RSC, though not yet complete, is already up and running and being used ...
Low-power AI computer chip startup Ceremorphic exits stealth with $50M funding
Energy-efficient artificial intelligence supercomputing chip startup Ceremorphic Inc. is exiting stealth mode today armed with $50 million in a Series A round of funding. The company is developing what it says will be a “complete silicon system” aimed at delivering the required performance for next-generation applications such as AI model training, high-performance computing, automotive processing, ...
Amazon’s new fashion store will use AI to suggest new styles to shoppers
Amazon.com Inc. today announced it’s getting into the fashion retail industry with its first Amazon Style store, which is a new physical store concept infused with technology ranging from QR codes to artificial intelligence, touchscreens and virtual queues. The first Amazon Style store is set to open at The Americana at Brand shopping mall in ...
Meta AI creates algorithm that can learn from speech, text and vision
Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence researchers have come up with what they say is the world’s first high-performance, self-supervised algorithm that can train AI in multiple modalities, be it speech, vision or text. The algorithm is called data2vec. Meta said in a blog post today it will enable the creation of smarter AI that can ...
Coalesce exits stealth on a mission to automate data transformation
Data transformation startup Coalesce Automation Inc. emerged from stealth mode today, bidding to solve what it says is the chief bottleneck in the data analytics supply chain. The company has just announced the launch of its Coalesce Data Transformation platform along with a $5.92 million seed funding round led by 11.2 Capital and GreatPoint Ventures, and ...
Virtru raises $60M to bring data protection standard used by the NSA to enterprises
Data protection startup Virtru Corp. is hoping to establish its Trusted Data Format standard in the enterprise after closing on a $60 million round of funding today. The Series C round was co-led by existing investor Iconiq Growth and new backer Foundry Capital, and saw participation from Tiger Global, MC2, Bessemer Venture Partners and New ...
Atom Computing raises $60M to commercialize the world’s most stable quantum computer
Investors keep throwing money at the quantum computing market, and this time around it’s Atom Computing Inc.‘s turn. The company said today it has closed on a $60 million Series B round of funding as it readies to build out its quantum machine based on neutral atom technology. Today’s round was led by Third Point Ventures and ...
IoT connectivity startup EMnify raises $57M in new funding
Berlin-based “internet of things” connectivity firm EMnify GmbH is in expansion mode after closing on a $57 million round of funding today. London-based growth investor One Peak was the sole participant in the Series B round, which brings EMnify’s total amount raised to more than $80 million. EMnify has created what it calls a “cellular ...
Cisco boosts accessibility on Webex with expanded closed-caption support, smart audio features and more
Cisco Systems Inc. today added more accessibility features to its video call and collaboration platform Webex. One of the platform’s most important features is its automated closed captions, which rely on artificial intelligence-powered natural language processing to accurately transcribe spoken English words into more than 100 languages. Cisco said it’s expanding this capability in a ...
Nvidia AI Enterprise adds production support for virtualized workloads on software containers
Nvidia Corp. is updating its AI Enterprise software platform, adding production support for containerized artificial intelligence workloads on VMware vSphere with Tanzu. Today’s update means enterprises can use Nvidia AI Enterprise 1.1 to run accelerated AI workloads on vSphere in both Kubernetes containers and virtual machines. The platform is a suite of AI tools and ...