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AI book publishing platform Spines raises $6.5M to disrupt centuries-old industry
Israeli startup Spines is looking to disrupt the centuries-old publishing industry after closing on a $6.5 million seed funding round today. The round was led by Aleph and saw participation from existing investors M-Fund, LionTree LLC and Dan Senor, co-author of the best-seller “Startup Nation.” Spines, officially known as Boox Publishing Technologies Inc., has created an ...
Google Cloud targets general-purpose and specialized workloads with new virtual machine families
Google Cloud is looking to address the very specific requirements of its customers with a series of updates to its workload-optimized compute infrastructure portfolio. The new virtual machine offerings, announced at Google Cloud Next ‘24, span a wide range of use cases, including general-purpose workloads, power-efficient workloads and specialized applications such as SAP deployments and ...
Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer cloud infrastructure gets new GPUs, TPUs, optimized storage and more
Google Cloud is revamping its AI Hypercomputer architecture with significant enhancements across the board to support rising demand for generative artificial intelligence applications that are becoming increasingly pervasive in enterprise workloads. At Google Cloud Next ’24 today, the company announced updates to almost every layer of the AI Hypercomputer cloud architecture, with new virtual machines ...
With its partners, Google Cloud is building a one-stop shop for generative AI development
Building the next generation of generative artificial intelligence is not an easy thing, and no single cloud provider is able to provide all of the hardware, software, systems, frameworks and expertise required to support its development. Fortunately, that isn’t necessary, as Google Cloud has instead turned to its wide ecosystem of partners to create what ...
Google Cloud showcases how major customers are innovating with its generative AI services
Google Cloud took the opportunity at its annual developer conference Next ‘24 today to showcase how various major customers are taking advantage of its advanced artificial intelligence capabilities. Not surprisingly in this day and age, it was especially keen to show off its chops in generative AI, revealing how the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer AG is ...
Intel and Altera unveil new chips and FPGAs to enhance AI at the network edge
Intel Corp. and its subsidiary Altera today unveiled a range of new processors and field-programmable gate arrays or FPGAs designed to extend artificial intelligence capabilities to the network edge. The new offerings, said to be broadly available now, include a number of edge-optimized central processing units and graphics processing units made by Intel, as well ...
Boosted by AI, global PC market bounces back after two years of declining sales
The personal computer industry has returned to growth after more than two years in the doldrums, according to the latest figures released by International Data Corp. today. In its latest market tracker, the research firm said PC shipments hit 59.8 million units during the first quarter of the year, representing growth of 1.5% from the ...
DataStax acquires Langflow for its low-code AI app development tools
DataStax Inc. has taken another big step forward in its bid to become the database of choice for generative artificial intelligence developers, revealing today that it’s buying a startup called Logspace, creator of Langflow, a popular open-source visual framework for building retrieval-augmented generation or RAG applications. The acquisition represents a major milestone for DataStax, as ...
Automated data transformation startup Coalesce closes on $50M funding round
Data transformation startup Coalesce Automation Inc. has revealed how it is planning to scale its business, unveiling an ambitious roadmap to coincide with its biggest funding round yet. The company said today it has raised $50 million via a Series B funding round, bringing its total amount raised to more than $81 million. The round ...
SMB-focused fintech platform Hello Alice closes on Series C funding round
Financial technology startup Hello Alice said today it has closed on an undisclosed amount of funding that brings its valuation to $130 million. The latest round was led by QED Investors, as well as Mastercard, and saw participation from Backstage Capital, Guy Fieri, Golden Seeds, Harbert Growth Partners Fund, How Women Invest I, LP, Lovell Limited ...