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Google Cloud Consulting launches Generative AI Ops to assist in enterprise AI deployments
Google Cloud’s consulting arm has announced the availability of a new offering called Generative AI Ops, which aims to help enterprises that are struggling to take advantage of the latest development in artificial intelligence and move new workloads into production. The company explained in a blog post today that moving AI workloads into production is ...
Cloud cost optimization startup Finout reels in $26.3M in Series B funding
Finout Ltd., the financial operations startup helping companies to manage, allocate and reduce cloud spending across any cloud infrastructure platform, has raised $26.3 million in a new funding round, it announced today. Leading the Series B investment was Red Dot Capital, which was joined by new investor Maor Investments and existing backers Team8, Pitango and ...
OpenAI strikes deal with News Corp. to access Wall Street Journal content
ChatGPT Creator OpenAI has struck another key content licensing deal to expand the capabilities of its large language models, partnering with Wall Street Journal parent company News Corp. The multiyear deal will give OpenAI unfettered access to current and archived articles from the Journal, plus other News Corp. publications such as The New York post, ...
Snowflake ups its revenue forecast and buys AI observability firm TruEra, sending its stock higher
Shares of the cloud data warehouse provider Snowflake Inc. rose more than 4% in extended trading today after it beat Wall Street’s sales estimates in its fiscal first-quarter earnings report and raised its full-year guidance. In addition, the company revealed a plan to acquire assets from TruEra Inc., which makes tools for observing and assessing the ...
Nvidia delivers another crushing earnings beat, with data center chip sales rising 427%
Nvidia Corp. delivered another earnings blowout today, crushing Wall Street’s already high expectations to send its share price soaring above the $1,000 mark for the first time. The chipmaker has become synonymous with the artificial intelligence industry, with its stock seen as a yardstick to gauge the strength of that market. Today’s results suggest that ...
HoundDog.ai raises $3.1M to help companies proactively prevent sensitive data leaks
HoundDog.ai Inc., a startup that has built an artificial intelligence-powered code scanner to prevent sensitive data leaks and automate compliance, said today it has closed on a $3.1 million seed funding round. Today’s round was led by E14, Mozilla and Ex/ante and saw the participation of several angel investors, including Amjad Masad, chief executive of ...
Pinecone launches serverless edition of its vector database on AWS
Vector database startup Pinecone Systems Inc. said today the serverless version of its platform is launching in general availability on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform after a successful beta testing phase. Pinecone is the creator of an advanced vector database that can dynamically store, transform and index billions of high-dimensional data points, enabling ...
Generative AI music maker startup Suno raises $125M in funding
Generative artificial intelligence music creation platform Suno Inc. said today it has raised $125 million in funding that will fuel its ambition to create “a future where anyone can make music.” Today’s round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Matrix and Founder Collective. Founded by Harvard Ph.D. Mikey Shulman, Suno has ...
Microsoft’s Copilot is becoming more of a team player
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its family of generative artificial intelligence-powered Copilots, introducing new virtual assistants in its Teams and SharePoint collaboration platforms, and announcing updates to the existing Microsoft Copilot in Azure. Today’s updates, announced at Microsoft Build 2024, are aimed at accelerating the company’s mission to bring its generative AI virtual assistant experience to ...
Microsoft beefs up Azure’s arsenal of generative AI development tools
Microsoft Corp. is trying to make life easier for generative artificial intelligence developers, with a host of updates to its developer tooling today. The software and cloud giant said the updates should help teams build more capable and knowledgeable AI models, including dedicated copilots, that can fulfill a wider range of enterprise-related tasks. The announcements at ...
