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AI21 Labs’ updated hybrid SSM-Transformer model Jamba gets longest context window yet
OpenAI rival AI21 Labs Ltd. today lifted the lid off of its latest competitor to ChatGPT, unveiling the open-source large language models Jamba 1.5 Mini and Jamba 1.5 Large. The new models are based on an alternative architecture that enables them to ingest much longer sequences of data, so they can better understand context compared ...
Agribusiness AI startup Ceres Imaging rebrands as Ceres AI after closing on late-stage funding
Agricultural imagery and data analytics provider Ceres Imaging Inc. has announced it’s rebranding itself as Ceres AI after closing on a Series D round of funding and appointing a new chairman. Ceres AI is an imaging and data company that’s looking to popularize precision farming techniques and help farmers improve their crop yields. It does ...
Salesforce’s newest AI agents help to filter out sales prospects and train salespeople
Salesforce Inc. is cranking out yet more artificial intelligence agents, this time for its flagship customer relationship management platform. The new agents include the Einstein Sales Development Rep, or Einstein SDR, and the Einstein Sales Coach Agent, and they’re designed to aid sales representatives in a variety of ways. The Einstein SDR Agent is designed ...
Chip design software firm Synopsys delivers record revenue as AI accelerates demand
Silicon chip design software maker Synopsys Inc. delivered third-quarter earnings and revenue above expectations today and then issued strong guidance, sending its stock higher in after-hours trading. The company, one of the leaders in the electronic design automation software industry, reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $3.43 per share, well ahead ...
Snowflake beats expectations but stock falls on fears of decelerating revenue growth
Updated: Shares of the cloud data warehouse giant Snowflake Inc. were battered and bruised in extended trading today, even though the company delivered solid second-quarter results and guidance that came in above expectations. The company’s stock fell more than 7% after-hours, with analysts saying that its likely shareholders are concerned over the possibility of a ...
Google Cloud Run speeds up on-demand AI inference with Nvidia’s L4 GPUs
Google Cloud is giving developers an easier way to get their artificial intelligence applications up and running in the cloud, with the addition of graphics processing unit support on the Google Cloud Run serverless platform. The company said in a blog post today that it’s adding support for Nvidia’s L4 graphics processing units on Google ...
Piramidal raises $6M to advance AI brainwave analysis and improve diagnoses of neurological conditions
Piramidal Inc. stepped into the limelight today, announcing that it has filled its war chest with $6 million in seed funding to tackle the intricacies of brainwave analysis using a specially developed foundational artificial intelligence model. Today’s round was led by Y Combinator, with the participation of several other venture capitalists, including Adverb Ventures, Lionheart ...
IT infrastructure monitoring startup Grafana Labs raises $270M at $6B valuation
Infrastructure monitoring startup Grafana Labs said today it has raised a bumper $270 million via two separate funding transactions, as it looks to solidify its status as a leader in the observability industry. Today’s round is said to have involved all of the company’s prior backers, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from GIC, Sequoia ...
OpenAI agrees content licensing deal with Condé Nast to feed SearchGPT and ChatGPT
OpenAI said today it has struck a deal with Condé Nast, a subsidiary of Advance Publications Inc. so artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and SearchGPT will be able to access and display content from publications that include The New Yorker, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest, GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired. The partnership follows ...
BeyondMath raises $8M to transform engineering and design with AI trained on world’s knowledge of physics
Artificial intelligence startup BeyondMath Ltd. said today it has raised $8.5 million in a seed funding round to train its foundational large language models on physics equations, as part of its mission to transform engineering processes through more advanced simulations. Today’s round was led by UP.Partners and saw participation from Insight Partners and InMotion Ventures. ...