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After raising $1.4B in IPO, UiPath sees shares jump 23%
Updated April 21 with start of trading: Shares of automation technology platform startup UiPath Inc. jumped 23% in trading Wednesday after the company’s initial public offering raised $1.4 billion. The company late Tuesday sold 23.9 million Class A shares at $56 per share, Reuters reported. That’s above an indicated price range of $52 to $54 per ...
Redis reinvents itself as a real-time data platform, with an AI kicker
Database management firm Redis Labs Inc. today outlined a long-term vision for a real-time data platform that can transform the way modern applications are built and run, with an aim to enabling its customers to reimagine the digital experiences they can deliver. The company detailed its vision at RedisConf 2021 running today and tomorrow, saying it’s adding ...
Pulumi updates its infrastructure-as-code cloud engineering platform
Infrastructure-as-code startup Pulumi Corp. has started pitching itself as the industry’s first cloud engineering platform provider that unites every aspect of deploying software applications to the cloud. Announcing the latest version of its platform today, Pulumi 3.0, the company said it offers a way for developers to build, deploy and launch their applications faster and ...
UiPath ups IPO price range, raising its valuation to $28B
Automation services provider UiPath Inc. has raised both the size and price range of its initial public offering in a move that boosts the company’s expected value to about $28 billion when it hits the market this week. The company, which is led by its Chief Executive Daniel Dines (pictured), said today it has upped ...
Demand Science buys Internal Results and Leadiro to boost B2B sales platform
Global buyer intelligence platform provider Demand Science International LLC is expanding its capabilities with a pair of key acquisitions announced today. The company said it’s buying a British company called Internal Results UK Ltd. that has created a tried and tested “demand generation” platform that boasts a global customer base. It also snapped up Leadiro ...
Unity launches synthetic datasets for computer vision AI
Videogame software developer Unity Software Inc. is getting into the business of selling synthetic image datasets that it says can be used to create computer vision artificial intelligence models faster and at a much lower cost. Unity is best known for its 3D gaming engine that’s used by videogame developers to create more interactive gaming ...
Siemens will use Google’s AI to enable more efficient factory automation
Google LLC said early today that its Google Cloud computing unit will work with the industrial giant Siemens AG to create new artificial intelligence products that can help to optimize process and improve productivity on factory floors. The idea is to pair Google’s cloud, AI and machine learning technologies with Siemens’ factory automation systems to ...
Nvidia’s newest AI model can transform single images into realistic 3D models
Nvidia Corp. today revealed that it has created a new deep learning application that can take a standard 2D image and transform it into an extremely realistic 3D model, one that can be visualized and controlled in a virtual environment. The GANverse3D application, developed at Nvidia’s AI Research Lab in Toronto, can take a single ...
Intel and TSMC CEOs say global chip shortage will drag on until 2023
Top executives from several leading chipmakers came out this week to warn that global chip shortages will likely drag on for the next couple of years. The worst estimate comes from new Intel Corp. Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger (pictured), who told the Washington Post in an interview on Tuesday that he expects the issue will ...
Harness gets more cloud integrations for its continuous software delivery platform
Harness Inc.’s continuous software delivery tools became a lot more useful today as the company announced new integrations with the three major cloud infrastructure providers that it says will make multicloud software deployment much easier than before. Harness is the creator of a continuous delivery-as-a-service platform that relies on machine learning algorithms to monitor new ...