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Perplexity AI gets $500M in funding, immediately spends some of it to buy RAG startup Carbon
Perplexity AI Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence search engine and a competitor to OpenAI, today revealed it has closed on a hefty $500 million funding round that brings its value to a cool $9 billion. The round was announced by Bloomberg, and came shortly after Perplexity confirmed it had closed on its second-ever ...
Shares of Micron tumble on weak outlook for memory chips
Micron Technology Inc.’s outlook for the current quarter came in some way short of expectations, stoking fears about the near-term dynamics of the memory chip market and sending the company’s stock way down in extended trading late today. The disappointing guidance came on the back of first-quarter financial results that were much more encouraging. The ...
Sahara AI’s new Data Services Platform allows anyone to earn money by creating datasets for AI
Sahara AI Ltd., the creator of a nascent decentralized artificial intelligence data network, today announced the launch of its new Data Services Platform, which allows everyone to contribute to the AI ecosystem by collecting, labeling, curating and refining datasets for model training. The startup, which is backed by more than $43 million in funding, is ...
OpenAI makes the full version of its o1 reasoning model available, but only to some developers
OpenAI said today it’s making the full version of its o1 reasoning model available to its most committed developer customers. Today’s announcement came on the ninth day of its holiday-themed press blitz, known as “12 Days of OpenAI,” where the company said it’s rolling out access to the full o1 model for developers in the “Tier 5” ...
Nuon raises $16.5M to transform software-as-a-service deployment
Nuon Inc. said today it has raised $16.5 million in funding to coincide with the launch of an early access version of its novel Bring Your Own Cloud platform for third-party software providers. Today’s round was led by M12 and saw participation from a host of other prominent backers, including Uncork Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Alumni ...
Google expands Code Assist with support for third-party data sources
Google LLC is updating its Code Assist tools that are designed to help increase developed productivity from within integrated development environments such as JetBrains and Visual Studio Code. In a blog post, Google Director of Product Management Ryan Salva and Group Product Manager Prithpal Bhogill said Code Assist will now be powered by Gemini 2.0, ...
Starboard Systems gets $5.5M funding to automate logistics and quotes for freight forwarders
Logistics optimization software startup Starboard Systems Inc. wants to help freight companies to eliminate global supply chain complexities after closing on a $5.5 million round of funding. The money comes from new investor Eclipse and existing backers Garuda Ventures and Everywhere Ventures. It will enable Toronto-based Starboard to expand its engineering team and accelerate the ...
Axelera brings its low-powered RISC-V chips to Arduino’s miniature computers to run AI at the edge
Edge artificial intelligence chip startup Axelera AI B.V. today revealed it’s partnering with Arduino s.r.l., a maker of specialized, open-source microcontroller boards, to support companies trying to implement high-performance artificial intelligence workloads at the network edge. The partnership will make edge AI more accessible, enabling companies to perform inference on low-powered chips installed at any ...
Keepit keeps raising money, closing on $50M in its latest funding round
Denmark-based cloud-native data protection and backup company Keepit A/S said today it has closed on its biggest funding round yet, raising $50 million. The round was led by One Peak and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark, and brings Keepit’s total venture capital raised to about $90 million. The money came via three rounds, ...
Databricks reportedly closing on $9.5B mega funding round
Big data software specialist Databricks Inc. is reportedly closing on what Reuters described Friday as “one of the largest venture capital funding rounds in history.” The company is said to be engaged in talks with investors over a twice oversubscribed funding round that could add more than $9.5 billion to its balance sheet. The amount far ...
