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Reflection AI’s autonomous coding agent Asimov learns from more than just code
Artificial intelligence startup Reflection AI Inc. is looking to change the way AI agents are designed and built, with a view to achieving so-called “superintelligence” much faster. The company has developed an autonomous agent known as Asimov, introduced today. It has been trained to understand how software is created by ingesting not only code, but ...
OpenAI taps Google Cloud to access much-needed GPUs for ChatGPT
OpenAI is getting some much-needed cloud infrastructure love from Google Cloud, and has added the company to its official list of artificial intelligence hardware suppliers. The AI industry leader has recently admitted that it has been struggling to procure enough cloud infrastructure capacity to run its popular chatbot assistant ChatGPT and other large language models, ...
Tetrate steps up to handle traffic management for AI agents powered by multiple LLMs
Service mesh company Tetrate Inc. wants to help reduce the costs and improve the reliability of artificial intelligence agents with the latest addition to its AI gateway tool. Today it announced the availability of the Tetrate Agent Router Service, a managed solution that makes it simpler for developers to direct AI queries and requests to AI ...
Drone services operator FlyGuys wants to connect AI applications to real-world aerial data after raising $13M
Drone fleet operator FlyGuys Corp. said it wants to reinvent itself as more of a “reality data” provider after closing on $13 million in Series A-1 funding today. The round was led by the Wonder Fund North Dakota under the direction of O’Leary Ventures, which is led by the well-known Canadian investor Kevin O’Leary. FlyGuys ...
Lightricks’ latest release lets creators direct long-form AI-generated videos in real time
Open-source artificial intelligence pioneer Lightricks Ltd. is raising the stakes with the launch of the industry’s first long-form AI-generated video model with livestreaming capabilities. The latest version of its flagship LTX Video model is said to support “continuous narratives” when livestreaming AI-generated video, as it gives users the ability to add new prompts from the ...
Investors dig up $96M in funding for underground intelligence startup Exodigo
Subterranean mapping startup Exodigo Ltd. said today it has gotten a $96 million boost after closing on a Series B funding round led by Zeev Ventures and Greenfield Partners. Existing investors 10D VC, SquarePeg and JIBE also participated, alongside new investors Vintage Partners and Leblon Capital. The round brings Exodigo’s total amount raised since launching in ...
Thinking Machines, led by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, raises $2B in seed funding
Generative artificial intelligence pioneer Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab Inc. said today it has raised $2 billion, in what is likely to be one of the largest seed funding rounds ever disclosed. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and saw participation from a host of other illustrious investors, including Nvidia Corp., Accel, ServiceNow Inc., ...
C-Gen.AI’s new GPU orchestration platform promises to boost AI data center efficiency
Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup C-Gen.AI is launching today with a new platform that helps data center operators automate the deployment and maximize the resource utilization of the expensive hardware that powers today’s most advanced AI models. Everybody knows that AI models can help to automate business processes that were previously performed by humans. But until ...
SuperAnnotate snags $13M in funding to take on Scale AI and Surge AI
Artificial intelligence data platform creator SuperAnnotate AI Inc. has closed on a $13 million Series B extension round led by Dell Technologies Capital, bringing its total Series B round to $50 million. SuperAnnotate is a fast-growing startup that’s increasingly seen as a rival to the well-known data labeling platforms Scale AI Inc. – which was ...
Heron raises $16M to automate document-heavy work
Business automation software startup Heron is looking to take on mundane tasks in the business lending, equipment finance and insurance industries after raising $16 million in its Series A round of funding today. The round was led by Insight Partners and saw the participation of a number of other well-known venture capital backers, including Y ...
