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DigitalOcean dives into agentic AI creation, making it accessible to every developer
The small developer team-focused cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings Inc. has become the latest company to embrace the agentic AI trend, launching a new GenAI Platform that enables teams to build and deploy AI agents in a matter of minutes. AI agents are one of the hottest trends in the artificial intelligence industry today, referring to ...
Diesel Labs blends generative AI chat with big-data analysis to create synthetic focus groups for marketing teams
Business intelligence startup Diesel Labs Inc. is merging generative artificial intelligence chat capabilities with its enormous, proprietary dataset on consumer attitudes to create a new tool called PanelAI that will deliver what it says are “unprecedented” consumer insights. Available now, PanelAI provides marketing and media teams with almost instantaneous access to actionable, real-time insights from ...
API collaboration startup Postman wants to lead the charge in AI agent development
Postman Inc., the well-funded startup that’s recognized as an industry leader in application programming interface development, says it’s getting into the business of developing artificial intelligence agents. The company says its new AI Agent Builder tool empowers companies to combine large language models with APIs and workflows to design, test and deploy intelligent AI-powered applications ...
Nebius AI Studio adds its first text-to-image models to support creative app development
Artificial intelligence computing infrastructure company Nebius B.V. today announced it’s updating its inference-as-a-service platform for developers with the addition of new, open-source text-to-image models. Nebius AI Studio provides a flexible, user-friendly environment for developers to get started building AI applications, and besides offering access to a vast collection of large language models, it’s also one ...
OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank to invest $500B in US AI infrastructure building project
New U.S. President Donald Trump appeared alongside officials from three top technology firms to announce the creation of a new initiative called the Stargate Project, which is tasked with building up artificial intelligence infrastructure in the country. OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman, SoftBank Group Corp. CEO Masayoshi Son and Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison stood ...
Render Services raises $80M to try to make AWS and other cloud infrastructure platforms obsolete
Developer-focused cloud infrastructure startup Render Services Inc. says it’s ready to disrupt traditional giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. after raising $80 million in a new round of funding. Today’s Series C round was led by Georgian and saw participation from 01A, a new venture capital firm headed by former Twitter ...
TigerGraph revs up its graph database offering with faster setup times and new preconfigurations
Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. today announced a major update to its flagship cloud platform with the Savanna release, bringing with it six times faster network deployments and dozens of other new features. The well-funded startup is one of the pioneers of graph databases alongside companies such as Aerospike Inc. and Neo4J Inc. Graph databases are ...
Merit Systems raises $10M to create a new economic model called ‘open-source capitalism’
A pioneering startup called Merit Systems Inc. is getting a lot of attention today after raising $10 million to create a new economic model for software developers that it calls “open-source capitalism.” Today’s round was led by heavyweight investors like a16z Crypto and Blockchain Capital and also saw the participation of a number of unnamed ...
Netradyne raises $90M to encourage safer driving with AI dashcams
Netradyne Inc., a startup that’s using artificial intelligence and edge computing to try and improve driver safety, said today it has raised $90 million in late-stage funding. Point72 Private Investments led the Series D round, with participation from Qualcomm Ventures and Pavilion Capital. The startup’s driver safety technology is mainly targeted at companies running fleets ...
Prophecy raises $47M to automate data pipeline development with generative AI
Data copilot startup Prophecy Inc. said today it has closed on a $47 million Series B extension round, as it bids to transform how companies access and manipulate their corporate data with generative artificial intelligence. Today’s round was led by Smith Point Capital, and saw participation from new investor HSBC and existing backers such as ...