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Salesforce launches Life Sciences Cloud for organizing clinical trials and patient outreach
Salesforce Inc. said today it’s expanding into the life sciences industry with the launch of a new cloud platform that can help medical technology providers and pharmaceutical companies engage with patients and healthcare professionals and organizations in a more personalized way. The Salesforce Life Sciences Cloud platform is generally available today and comes with a ...
Aryaka debuts dedicated network for accelerating generative AI workloads
Aryaka Networks Inc., a provider of secure access service edge networking platforms, today announced what it says is an industry-first cloud network that’s specifically designed to support generative artificial intelligence workloads. The new Aryaka AI>Perform network integrates strong security and observability capabilities, and is delivered natively via the Aryaka Unified SASE-as-a-service. It provides customers with ...
Multi-model database startup SurrealDB raises $20M and announces cloud beta access
Open-source database startup SurrealDB Inc. said today it has closed on a $20 million funding investment that will fund its ambitions to disrupt the big data industry. The round, led by FirstMark and Georgian with participation from Crew Capital and Alumni Ventures, brings the company’s total amount raised to date to $26 million. The startup ...
IBM’s generative AI-powered application automation tool Concert is now generally available
IBM Corp. today announced the general availability of a new tool that’s designed to address application sprawl and boost the efficiency of business operations. It’s called IBM Concert, and it’s said to use generative artificial intelligence to streamline the way in which users can control how applications work, provide insights into connected apps and toolsets, ...
AI-powered e-commerce accounting startup Finaloop raises $35M
Finaloop Inc., the e-commerce-oriented accounting platform, said today it has closed on $35 million in early-stage funding. Today’s Series A round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and saw participation from new investors Vesey Ventures and Commerce Ventures, plus new backers Accel and Aleph. It brings the startup’s total amount raised to date to $55 ...
Oracle’s APEX now supports natural language prompts to ease app development
Oracle Corp. said today it’s enhancing the capabilities of its low-code application development platform Oracle APEX, infusing it with a generative artificial intelligence-powered assistant, among other things. The update is all about simplifying and speeding up the process of application development. Using the new APEX AI assistant, developers will be able to build new apps ...
Amazon to splurge $230M on free cloud credits for generative AI startups
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s giving away $230 million in AWS cloud credits to generative artificial intelligence startups, as part of its bid to remain at the forefront of a cloud computing industry that’s now laser-focused on winning over AI companies. The company will give free credits to early-stage generative AI startups, enabling ...
Zeta Labs unveils JACE, an action-oriented generative AI assistant quite unlike any other
Artificial intelligence research startup Zeta AI Inc., better known as Zeta Labs, said today it has closed on $2.9 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of its autonomous generative AI agent, called JACE. Today’s round was led by Daniel Gross, former head of AI at Y Combinator, and former GitHub Inc. Chief Executive ...
Adobe’s stock jumps on AI-powered earnings and revenue beats
Shares of the creative and marketing software company Adobe Inc. jumped in late trading today on the back of strong earnings and revenue beats and a somewhat mixed outlook. The company reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $4.48 per share on revenue of $5.31 billion, up 10% from a year ...
Luma AI’s Dream Machine expands access to generative AI video creation
Artificial intelligence startup Luma AI Inc. said today it’s making its entrance into the text-to-video generation segment of the generative AI industry with a new tool called Dream Machine. The startup says Dream Machine is a powerful new AI system that’s able to generate high-quality videos based on simple text prompts, paving the way for ...
