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Generative AI drug discovery hub Converge Bio raises $5.5M to understand the ‘language of biology’
Drug discovery startup Converge Bio Inc. said today it has closed on a $5.5 million seed round of funding to help biotech and pharmaceutical companies develop more effective drugs at faster speeds by leveraging generative artificial intelligence. The startup has created a novel platform that employs advanced large language models trained on biological and chemical ...
Vision AI training and deployment startup Roboflow raises $40M
Visual artificial intelligence development startup Roboflow Inc. said today it has closed on a $40 million round of funding to continue building the tools developers need to make more advanced AI systems that can see and understand the world. Today’s Series B round was led by GV and saw participation from Craft Ventures and Y ...
Selector Software raises $33M funding round to fix network outages with AI
Artificial intelligence-native network monitoring startup Selector Software Inc. said today it has closed on a $33 million round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $66 million. Today’s Series B round was led by Ansa Capital and saw participation from existing investors Two Bear Capital, Atlantic Bridge and Sinewave Ventures, ...
Enfabrica raises $115M as it debuts ‘world’s fastest’ GPU networking chip
High-performance networking chip startup Enfabrica Corp. today announced a significant new cash injection, raising $115 million as part of an oversubscribed equity financing round. Today’s Series C round was led by Spark Capital and saw participation from new investors including Maverick Silicon and VentureTech Alliance. Existing investors Atreides Management, Sutter Hill Ventures, Alumni Ventures, IAG ...
Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry unifies AI development so everyone can get involved
Microsoft Corp. said today it wants to change the game for artificial intelligence development by providing everyone with the tools to implement cutting-edge AI capabilities within their business applications, and key to this is the launch of the new Azure AI Foundry. It’s a brand-new offering announced at Microsoft Ignite 2024 that’s meant to simplify ...
Microsoft cranks up its AI infrastructure offerings with new VMs, cooling and power delivery tech
Microsoft Corp. wants to be the infrastructure foundation for the next generation of artificial intelligence, catering to everyone from agile startups to multinational corporations, and to do this it’s introducing some significant advancements and upgrades to the Azure Cloud platform. The new infrastructure updates announced at Microsoft Ignite 2024 today are all about offering customers more ...
API management company Kong raises $175M to provide connectivity for next-generation AI
API technology startup Kong Inc. said today it has closed on a bumper $175 million late-stage round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $345 million. Today’s Series E round, led by Tiger Global and Balderton, brings Kong’s valuation to more than $2 billion. In addition to those backers, the ...
New updates give Mistral AI’s Le Chat an edge over ChatGPT
French generative artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is taking the fight to OpenAI with a host of updates announced today. The company announced new chatbot capabilities that surpass those of ChatGPT, and a couple of powerful large language models, including the all-new Pixtral Large and an updated version of Mistral Large. Mistral’s Le Chat, which ...
AWS App Studio launches in general availability, making everyone an app builder
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of AWS App Studio, its popular artificial intelligence service for creating business applications with natural language prompts. First announced as a preview in July, AWS App Studio is a generative AI-powered app development tool that makes it possible for users to simply describe what kind of ...
LastMile AI’s AutoEval makes it simple to create customized evaluator models for testing generative AI
LastMile AI Inc., creator of a developer platform for customizing and debugging artificial intelligence applications, today announced the launch of what it says is the industry’s first fine-tuning platform for evaluator models. Called AutoEval, it’s all about solving the “last mile” problem of evaluating complex AI applications to ensure they can achieve maximum efficiency and ...
