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Circular.co raises $10.5M to facilitate recycling at large scale
Sustainable sourcing platform Circular Exchange Inc., which does business as Circular.co, said today it has raised $10.5 million to expand its database of post-consumer recycled materials and its platform for streamlining the purchase and sale of PCR materials. The company said it will use the funding to expand its platform beyond plastics to include paper ...
Startup Borderless AI nets $27M to bring generative AI to global hiring practices
Borderless AI Ventures Inc. launched today with $27 million in new funding and ambitions to use generative artificial intelligence to change how organizations hire and manage overseas employees. The company says its AI agent, Alberni, can solve complex problems and automate employment-related processes in minutes, compared with the days such processes ordinarily take. Examples include generating employment ...
Exclusive: Dymium launches with platform that takes protection to the data
Two-year-old data access management startup Dymium Inc. is emerging from stealth today with $7 million in seed funding and a data protection platform that works at the data element level, eliminating the need for duplication. Founded by three data security veterans, Dymium’s premise is that data should be accessed only when needed, in the right ...
Snowflake documents huge growth in AI projects
Leveraging its unique perspective on how customers manage data on its platform, Snowflake Inc. today released a report on the changes it’s seen over the past year in data and tools usage as artificial intelligence has grabbed its customers’ attention. The analysis of more than 9,000 Snowflake accounts found that AI use cases now dominate, ...
Confluent simplifies integration between Kafka stream processing and Iceberg storage
Confluent Inc. today announced new features in its cloud service that make it easier for users of its Apache Kafka-based streaming engine to store data in the Apache Iceberg table format. The new Confluent Tableflow enables users to convert Kafka topics, associated schemas and metadata to Iceberg tables with one click and better supports feeding analytic ...
Oracle boosts gen AI support in its Fusion Cloud suite
Oracle Corp. is expanding the range of generative artificial intelligence capabilities in its Fusion Cloud applications suite to cover uses in enterprise resource planning, human capital management, supply chain and customer experience. Fusion Data Intelligence, a cross-application data warehouse, is also getting additional generative AI support. The new features are embedded in existing business workflows ...
Databricks is the latest investor in red-hot generative AI startup Mistral AI
Citing a commitment to open-source software for generative artificial intelligence development, Databricks Inc. said today it has made an unspecified strategic investment and partnership with large language model developer Mistral AI SAS. Databricks said it will natively integrate Mistral’s open models with the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, provide access in the Databricks Marketplace, include them in ...
Luminary Cloud launches with $115M funding for cloud CAE platform meant to dust desktop competitors
Luminary Cloud Inc. is launching out of stealth today with $115 million in funding and a computer-aided engineering platform delivered as a service that it says can run simulations up to 100 times faster than is possible on a desktop computer. The company calls its platform a cloud supercomputer and positions it as an alternative ...
MinIO expands its enterprise object storage offering to handle AI workloads
Saying generative artificial intelligence model training has changed the game in object storage, cloud-native storage startup MinIO Inc. today launched what it says is a major expansion of its product line that addresses the data creation and management needs of exabyte-scale infrastructure. MinIO sells a high-performance, Kubernetes-native object store compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. S3 and permits rapid ...
Creatio’s no-code development platform gets generative AI copilot
No-code platform developer Creatio Inc. today added a generative artificial intelligence copilot feature that assists users in building applications. The feature is intended to enable users to tap into tried-and-tested out-of-the-box AI scenarios and create and customize new ones without the need for coding. The company is also introducing an accompanying workspace called Copilot Studio that lets ...