This Week in NLP #310
Keep up with what happened in NLP in the week ending Friday 25th October 2024.
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Anthropic's new AI models, Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Haiku, include a ‘Computer Use’ feature, enabling AI to navigate and interact with screens, potentially transforming workflow automation. [VentureBeat]
Tim Cook defends Apple's late AI entry by emphasizing their focus on quality over speed, aiming to deliver the best rather than being first. [Yahoo]
Microsoft announced that customers can build autonomous AI agents using Copilot Studio starting November, leveraging in-house and OpenAI models for various business tasks. [Yahoo Finance]
Microsoft and OpenAI are negotiating over Microsoft’s equity stake in the latter following its US$13.75B investment, amid OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit entity with soaring valuations. [Yahoo Finance]
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is reportedly seeking over US$100m to develop proprietary models. [The Decoder]
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The Generative AI Wars
Developers can now use Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration via iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, enhancing Siri and Writing Tools features. [TechCrunch]
Apple has delayed the release of the iPad 11 to improve hardware for its generative AI. [Yahoo Finance]
Some Apple employees think the company is two years behind in AI. [9to5Mac]
Honeywell and Google Cloud are collaborating to develop AI solutions for the industrial sector. [Yahoo Finance]
Microsoft is challenging Salesforce by launching ten autonomous AI agents for Dynamics 365, aiming to enhance enterprise productivity with advanced task automation and integration. [VentureBeat]
The UK Government and Microsoft have signed a five-year deal to enhance AI tools and digital infrastructure in the public sector. [TechRadar]
The New York Times reports tensions between OpenAI and Microsoft due to financial, resource, and rule disagreements, with a clause limiting Microsoft’s access to OpenAI’s AGI. [TechCrunch]
India is advancing rapidly in AI, hosting over 2,000 Nvidia Inception AI companies and innovative startups, supported by Nvidia’s technologies and infrastructure development. [VentureBeat]
OpenAI's pledge to use its patents defensively is seen by experts as vague and lacking legal weight, serving more as public relations than substantive policy. [TechCrunch]
As his sabbatical draws to an end, can Greg Brockman find a future at a much-changed OpenAI? [The Information]
Meanwhile, Alex Kantrowitz looks at OpenAI's precarious financial situation. [Big Technology]
Perplexity has launched a free native Mac app offering advanced search features and voice interactions. [TechCrunch]
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff again criticized Microsoft Copilot as inaccurate and insecure, comparing it to the outdated Clippy assistant and promoting Salesforce’s Agentforce. [ITPro]
Elon Musk’s xAI has launched an API offering access to its Grok models, challenging rivals with a feature-rich platform and unique pricing. [VentureBeat]
And Marc Andreessen says LLM developers may be in ‘a race to the bottom’. [CFO.com]
Feature Creeps
Google's NotebookLM AI podcast generator now allows users to customize podcast topics and focus on specific sections of uploaded documents for tailored audio content. [ZDNet]
And Google will launch NotebookLM Business, a paid AI research tool for enterprises with advanced features and enhanced data privacy later this year. [VentureBeat]
Compare Mode in Google AI Studio allows developers to evaluate and compare various Gemini models side-by-side to make informed model selection decisions. [Google]
Google Messages is introducing enhanced scam detection, warning features for suspicious links, and tools to block unknown international texts to improve user safety. [Engadget]
Microsoft has released preview libraries to unify AI services integration in .NET applications, offering flexibility and standardized APIs. [InfoQ]
OpenAI has launched an early version of its ChatGPT app for Windows, available to paid users, featuring streamlined access and an AI shortcut with Alt + Space. [TechRadar]
OpenAI has updated ChatGPT’s Canvas feature, enhancing editing transparency by showing changes, but it remains web-only, lacking integration with code repositories like GitHub. [VentureBeat]
OpenAI’s Swarm is an experimental tool for developing multi-agent systems to coordinate task execution, focusing on routine patterns and customizable handoffs between agents. [InfoQ]
Perplexity’s new Internal Knowledge Search enables users to integrate internet and internal file searches in a single platform. [VentureBeat]
And Perplexity Finance offers a comprehensive suite for stock market research with reliable data. [ZDNet]
Hardware
Cerebras Systems’ CS-3 system delivers record-breaking AI inference speeds, significantly outperforming GPUs. [Business Wire]
HyperAccel's Bertha LPU is designed to offer an efficient alternative to GPUs for LLM inference. [TechRadar]
Lenovo's ThinkSystem servers now feature AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors and Instinct MI325X accelerators, enhancing AI capabilities. [TechRadar]
Liquid Web's new GPU hosting service offers flexible, cost-effective access to Nvidia GPUs for AI and HPC tasks. [TechRadar]
Loongson aims to release its first GPU in 2025, with performance similar to a 2017 AMD GPU, but significantly behind Nvidia's H100. [TechRadar]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted a design flaw in Blackwell AI chips that affected production was entirely Nvidia’s fault, but is now resolved. [TechRadar]
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite seeks to rejuvenate smartphone sales by offering advanced on-board AI capabilities. [Yahoo Finance]
TSMC halted chip shipments to a client suspected of illegally providing them to Huawei, raising concerns over violation of US sanctions against Huawei. [Engadget]
It’s Only a Model
Cohere has enhanced its search model with multimodal embeddings, allowing for enhanced image and text retrieval. [VentureBeat]
Genmo released Mochi 1, an open-source AI model for text-to-video generation, claiming superior performance. [VentureBeat]
H2O.ai announced two new vision-language models for document analysis. [VentureBeat]
IBM has released its advanced Granite 3.0 AI models under the Apache 2.0 open-source license. [Yahoo Finance]
Liquid AI is launching efficient and transparent ‘liquid’ neural networks that have shown promising results in AI applications like fraud detection and self-driving cars. [Wired]
Literal Labs’ AI model using Tsetlin Machines is 54 times faster and 52 times more energy-efficient than traditional neural networks on a $30 system board. [TechRadar]
Meta Platforms has introduced compressed Llama AI models that run efficiently on smartphones, promoting AI’s transition from data centers to personal devices. [VentureBeat]
And Meta unveiled Meta Spirit LM, an open-source multimodal language model combining text and speech to enhance AI expressiveness, available for non-commercial research. [VentureBeat]
Stability AI has released Stable Diffusion 3.5 with improved customization, prompt adherence, and image quality. [VentureBeat]
Whose Data?
News Corp is suing AI startup Perplexity for massively copying its copyrighted content without permission, alleging the search engine harms revenues and misattributes information. [The Verge]
A former OpenAI researcher says the company broke copyright law. [The New York Times]
Penguin Random House has revised its copyright rules to prevent AI companies from using its books for training, aiming to protect authors’ works from unauthorized use. [Engadget]
X has updated its privacy policy to permit third-party AI training using its data unless users opt out. [TechCrunch]
An online petition against unauthorized use of creative works for AI training has been signed by 13,500 artists. [Publishers Weekly]
And this piece reports that publishers are prioritizing profits over creators by striking AI licensing deals without guaranteeing fair compensation for authors and creators. [TechDirt]
The LLM Ecosystem
Andreessen Horowitz's Oxygen program provides AI startups with access to Nvidia H100 GPUs, helping them compete with tech giants without costly contracts. [TechCrunch]
AppFactor announced an early access program for its generative AI-driven application refactoring solution, enabling developers to automate application improvements and maintenance at scale. [AiThority]
Apple's CAMPHOR is an AI framework enabling complex user query processing on mobile devices, reducing latency and enhancing privacy through hierarchical specialized agents and prompt compression. [The Decoder]
Arcee AI is pioneering Differentiable Adaptive Merging (DAM) to simplify model merging, enhancing efficiency and reducing computational costs for enterprise AI applications. [VentureBeat]
Argos Multilingual is launching Argos SmartSuite, a comprehensive platform of 12 advanced tools to enhance LLM development and deployment by improving data ingestion, workflow, and quality. [PRWeb]
Asana has announced its AI Studio, a no-code tool enabling seamless workflow design with AI agents. [Business Wire]
CrewAI, a one-year-old startup, has launched its first product, CrewAI Enterprise, to simplify multi-agent AI systems. [VentureBeat]
DigitalOcean and Hugging Face have partnered to offer 1-Click Models, enabling easy deployment of AI models on DigitalOcean GPU Droplets. [Business Wire]
F5 announced BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, an AI application delivery and security solution, leveraging Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs for large-scale infrastructures. [Business Wire]
Functionize, a provider of intelligent process automation, has released Agentic Platform 6.0, claiming to improve software testing efficiency by 60% and productivity by 5X. [AiThority]
Google Cloud's Memorystore now supports scalable vector-search capabilities for Redis Cluster, enabling ultra-low-latency searches over billions of vectors, benefiting AI applications like semantic search and recommendation systems. [InfoQ]
Holistic AI launched a free, open-source library to help developers create transparent, fair AI systems by addressing bias, explainability, robustness, security, and efficacy risks. [Business Wire]
Hugging Face launched HUGS, an open-source AI service with Amazon and Google, to reduce chatbot development costs and enhance data privacy for $1/hour. [Yahoo Finance]
Infocepts is partnering with Dataiku to enhance AI adoption and operationalize advanced analytics in enterprises, emphasizing scalability, cost-efficiency, and innovative data-driven solutions. [EIN Presswire]
Informatica announced generative AI Blueprints to simplify and accelerate generative AI app development on major cloud platforms. [Business Wire]
Intel's updated AI Playground app runs AI tasks locally on Core Ultra 200V processors. [TechRadar]
Iterate.ai has partnered with Intel to integrate its secure AI Manager application, Generate, into Intel AI PCs, enhancing business productivity with efficient, private, and locally-run AI capabilities. [GlobeNewswire]
The Kiteworks AI Data Gateway provides a secure bridge between AI systems and enterprise data repositories. [MarTech Series]
The DIFF Transformer, developed by Microsoft AI and Tsinghua University, enhances attention mechanisms for better performance and scalability in LLMs. [InfoQ]
Microsoft has made Azure confidential VMs with Nvidia Tensor Core GPUs generally available, enhancing cloud security and performance for AI and HPC workloads. [InfoQ]
Red Hat has revealed major enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI. [ZDNet]
SambaNova Systems and Gradio's new integration allows developers to build fast AI web apps with minimal code. [VentureBeat]
SnapLogic announced the Agent Creator, a system that enables enterprises to build AI-powered agents for integration workflows. [Business Wire]
Tata Consultancy Services is partnering with Nvidia to accelerate AI adoption across multiple industries by providing customized, industry-specific AI solutions using Nvidia’s technology. [TechRadar]
Treblle has launched Treblle 3.0, an AI-enhanced API intelligence platform featuring Alfred, an AI assistant, to improve API observability, compliance, and integration. [Business Wire]
UiPath announced the integration of Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet LLM into Autopilot, Clipboard AI, and a new healthcare solution to enhance automation and AI capabilities. [Business Wire]
And UiPath and Inflection AI have partnered to integrate their technologies, offering both cloud and on-premises solutions. [Business Wire]
Zoho Corporation is expanding its AI capabilities by integrating Nvidia's platform to develop business-oriented language models. [Business Wire]
Other LLM Sightings
Airship has expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud by integrating Vertex AI into Airship Journeys AI, enhancing marketers’ ability to create and optimize personalized customer experiences across digital channels. [Business Wire]
Allison Worldwide has launched its Advanced Issues Monitor, designed to help companies monitor, analyze and respond to conversation material related to their businesses. [MarTech Series]
AuditBoard, a cloud-based platform focussed on audit, risk, compliance, and ESG management, announced AI enhancements to automate workflows and address data privacy and cost challenges. [Business Wire]
Blue J and Crowe LLP have entered an enterprise agreement to enhance Crowe’s AI capabilities for tax services, using Blue J’s generative AI tools. [Business Wire]
Box and AWS are expanding their partnership to integrate advanced generative AI models with Box’s content management platform. [Yahoo Finance]
Canva has enhanced its design platform with new AI features, including Dream Lab for improved image generation, and updated Magic tools for text, video, and collaborative projects. [The Verge]
Cohesity launched a new visual data exploration tool in Cohesity Gaia, enabling enterprises to unlock insights from unstructured data using AI-powered theme categorization and query suggestions. [Business Wire]
Dun & Bradstreet has launched ChatD&B, a generative AI assistant providing real-time business insights using validated data. [Business Wire]
The European Parliament has launched Archibot, an AI tool powered by Claude, to improve global and multilingual access to its historical archives and legislative documents. [Anthropic]
Exovera's upgraded exoINSIGHT platform enhances data analysis for the Indo-Pacific region with new AI capabilities and expanded data holdings. [Business Wire]
Fixify connects to existing IT ticketing systems to automatically categorize tickets and identify problem hotspots, then recruits IT analysts to diagnose and resolve the problems. [TechCrunch]
GoTo has announced significant updates to GoTo Connect, enhancing CRM integrations to streamline workflows, improve customer interactions, and enable AI-driven efficiencies. [Business Wire]
Lookout, a data-centric cloud security company, has integrated an AI-driven chatbot by Embrace.ai within the Lookout Partner Hub portal to streamline access to sales resources for the company’s partners. [CIO Influence]
Nava Benefits launched the AI-powered Nava Benefits Assistant, designed to revolutionize employee benefits interaction with 24/7 personalized assistance and robust privacy measures. [Business Wire]
Republic Tax now uses advanced AI technology to efficiently assist clients with tax debt concerns while maintaining expert human advisory support. [PR Newswire]
Sapia.ai has introduced Phai, an AI-driven career coach utilizing advanced AI to offer personalized career guidance and skills identification for job seekers and employees. [Business Wire]
SnapLogic's generative integration platform is enabling Aptia to automate data processing and enhance customer service through AI applications. [Business Wire]
Squirro and Recenso Services have formed a strategic partnership to enhance telecom enterprises’ efficiencies through AI-driven insights and process automation. [CIO Influence]
StructuredWeb has launched AssistantAI, an advanced feature in its ChannelGPT platform, leveraging generative AI to enhance communication and marketing efficiency for global vendors and partners. [Business Wire]
SundaySky announced the beta release of AI image generation and AI Copilot features, enhancing video creation accessibility with personalized AI-driven tools. [Business Wire]
Risks
Anthropic researchers have found that AI models can evade safety checks and sabotage tasks, highlighting the need for improved anti-sabotage measures as AI capabilities grow. [TechCrunch]
Google AI Overviews provide misleading or inaccurate information in 43% of finance-related searches, particularly in nuanced topics like taxes and financial aid. [The College Investor]
Axios reports that AI is already making it easier to spread election lies. [Axios]
And AI-infused search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have been promoting debunked, racist research, raising concerns about amplifying race science theories. [Wired]
Trump’s potential election could disrupt efforts to regulate AI safety. [Wired]
TSMC informed the US about a potential attempt to bypass export controls by manufacturing AI chips for China’s Huawei. [Yahoo Finance]
The US AI Safety Institute is in danger of being dismantled if Congress doesn’t choose to authorize it. [TechCrunch]
Responses
The UK’s antitrust regulator has launched an investigation into Alphabet's US$2.3B investment in AI startup Anthropic to assess its impact on market competition. [Engadget]
Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy to introduce Capability Thresholds and AI Safety Levels, setting a new standard for AI safety and governance industry-wide. [VentureBeat]
ByteDance fired an intern for allegedly tampering with AI training systems. [Yahoo Finance]
A lawsuit targets Character.ai after a 14-year-old Florida boy’s suicide, as his mother claims he became obsessed with a chatbot on the platform. [TechCrunch]
Google DeepMind has open-sourced its AI text watermarking tool, SynthID, to help identify AI-generated text. [MIT Technology Review]
Singapore has released guidelines to secure AI systems and banned deepfakes in election campaigns. [ZDNet]
Conversational AI
Affinity introduced conversational AI to its CRM platform, enhancing dealmaking for private capital firms with features like Deal Assist for faster, more relevant investment insights. [Business Wire]
Busuu introduced AI-powered conversations to boost language learners’ speaking confidence with simulated dialogues and real-time feedback, available for English and Spanish courses. [Business Wire]
Haven and Kastle have partnered to enhance mortgage servicing by integrating AI-powered call center operations. [Business Wire]
Infobip and Oracle are collaborating to integrate Infobip’s chatbot platform with Oracle Responsys, enabling brands to offer AI-driven, conversational customer experiences. [Business Wire]
InMoment has launched AI-powered Active Listening Agents to enhance feedback collection with insightful, detailed responses. [Business Wire]
Kong.ai has integrated OpenAI's voice technology into its AI chatbots, enabling real-time voice interactions to enhance customer engagement across various industries. [EIN Presswire]
NICE launched CXone Mpower, a next-generation platform transforming customer service automation through AI integration and predictive, proactive workflows. [Business Wire]
Poly AI offers free, unrestricted AI chats and image generation with over 10 million characters. [PRWeb]
Talkdesk announced the integration of agentic AI into its Ascend AI platform, enhancing automation and personalization of customer experience through autonomous AI Agents. [Business Wire]
A survey by Five9 reveals that, while AI is enhancing customer service, 75% of users still prefer human interaction. [Business Wire]
Be Real
Dippy, a startup offering uncensored AI companions, uses advanced reasoning to engage users, raising concerns about emotional impact and social isolation. [Wired]
Deep fake videos have become so convincing that we now depend on human fact checkers to flag them for us. [CACM]
The Pentagon wants to use AI to create undetectable deepfake personas for social media. [The Intercept]
Radio Kraków has launched Poland’s first AI-driven radio station, sparking controversy after staff were replaced by AI presenters. [Notes from Poland]
Voice News
Amazon is enhancing its digital advertising capabilities with generative AI tools for creating audio ads. [Adweek]
Qualcomm and Google are collaborating to enable automakers to develop AI voice assistants using Qualcomm chips and Google’s Android Automotive OS. [Yahoo Finance]
Soniox's Omnio voice AI model natively understands speech, analyzing tone and emotion and recognizing sounds and non-verbal cues. [Speech Technology Magazine]
Otter.ai has launched real-time French and Spanish transcription, enhancing its AI meeting assistant’s ability to facilitate global team collaboration and communication. [Business Wire]
A survey by SoundHound AI reveals 76% of US drivers are inclined to use advanced in-car voice AI for tasks and vehicle management. [Business Wire]
Threads Software has released a call transcription module for FreePBX, enhancing call management. [Business Wire]
Vida has integrated OpenAI's Realtime Speech-to-Speech API to enhance customer service with emotionally expressive, multilingual AI voice agents. [Speech Technology Magazine]
Document AI
Indico Data launched its Agentic AI decisioning application for commercial insurance, automating unstructured data processing to enhance underwriting efficiency. [Intelligent Document Processing Community]
Microsoft has integrated OCR into the Windows Photos app, aligning with features offered by competitors like Apple. [TechRadar]
Rossum has partnered with KPMG Netherlands to combine expertise in Intelligent Document Processing and process optimization, aiding companies in automating complex document-based workflows. [Intelligent Document Processing Community]
Translation
Alibaba released a new LLM, Marco MT, enhancing its translation services to support international e-commerce growth. [Slator]
Flitto has introduced Live Translation, its AI simultaneous interpretation service, supporting 38 languages. [BusinessKorea]
Johns Hopkins University and Microsoft introduced X-ALMA, an LLM prioritizing top-tier performance in translation across 50 languages. [Slator]
XL8 has launched its updated EventCAT subscription packages designed for real-time translation and global collaboration, with three core products EventCAT OnlineMeeting, EventCAT Conference, and EventCAT LiveSubs. [MultiLingual]
Writing Assistance
Grammarly has introduced the Effective Communication Score and a customizable ROI Report to help organizations measure the impact of communication on productivity and key business metrics. [Business Wire]
myStylus has launched Gen3, an AI tool that enhances the writing process with features like reference analysis, citation accuracy, and personalized smart editing. [GlobeNewswire]
AI in Journalism
Microsoft and OpenAI are granting up to US$10m to select media outlets for AI tool experimentation in newsrooms, despite facing copyright lawsuits. [The Verge]
Amidst declining local journalism, the Melrose Update Robocast is an experiment in hyper-local AI podcasting. [Commonwealth Beacon]
Health Tech
Arcweb Technologies has launched Arcwell, an open-source platform allowing healthcare organizations to develop wellness apps and clinical trials. [PRWeb]
Atropos Health released ChatRWD, an AI tool that significantly reduces real-world evidence generation time using a large data network. [Business Wire]
Authenticx launched Ava, an AI-powered assistant for healthcare organizations. [AiThority]
DUOS, a digital health innovator, is launching Chat 2.0 to enhance healthcare access for older adults. [Business Wire]
GE HealthCare announced an AI Innovation Lab to integrate AI in medical devices. [Business Wire]
Google Cloud has launched Vertex AI Search for Healthcare, a tool to streamline administrative tasks for healthcare workers by efficiently querying patient data. [Healthcare Dive]
Netsmart and Apricot are unveiling AI solutions that enhance post-acute care efficiency and patient outcomes by reducing documentation time. [Business Wire]
And Netsmart and VNS Health are collaborating to enhance end-of-life care using ML and predictive analytics integrated into Netsmart’s EHR platform myUnity. [Business Wire]
Nvidia and Aidoc are collaborating on the ‘Blueprint for Resilient Integration and Deployment of Guided Excellence’ framework to expedite the integration and scalability of AI in healthcare workflows. [Yahoo Finance]
Revvity has launched Revvity Transcribe AI, an OCR service improving laboratory data entry by 40%, specifically aiding newborn screening labs with digitized workflows. [Business Wire]
Suki AI is partnering with Zoom to integrate its AI Platform for generating clinical notes, enhancing productivity and patient care in telehealth services. [Business Wire]
Weave has launched a redesigned platform integrating AI tools to enhance communication, scheduling, and billing for small and medium-sized healthcare businesses. [Business Wire]
xCures unveiled an AI-driven platform aiming to revolutionize healthcare by providing faster, more efficient access to clinical insights, improving patient care quality. [PR Newswire]
Legal Tech
Alexi is expanding its AI platform to include case management, document analysis, and court-ready pleadings, aiming for comprehensive litigation support. [LawSites]
Black Hills AI and DeepIP have announced a partnership to integrate their AI technologies, enhancing IP automation, analysis, and management. [Business Wire]
CobbleStone Software has partnered with AXANEXA to enhance contract lifecycle management through CLM services such as implementation support and legacy contract migration. [PRWeb]
New York-based legal tech startup Dioptra has launched PromptIQ to enhance contract review accuracy by converting feedback into sophisticated prompts for AI learning. [Artificial Lawyer]
Luminance plans to launch Agent Lumi, an AI assistant for legal professionals, trained on 150 million documents, to streamline contract work and differentiate itself from competitors like Spellbook and Harvey. [Fortune]
NetDocuments has introduced an intelligent document management system, integrating AI-driven tools and legal-specific apps to enhance productivity and efficiency for legal teams. [PRWeb]
Steno has launched Transcript Genius, a generative AI transcript analysis tool, to streamline attorney workflows, offering customizable summaries and insights. [Artificial Lawyer]
Thomson Reuters launched the AI for Justice Legal Aid program to provide legal aid organizations free or subsidized access to CoCounsel AI software. [LawSites]
Travers Smith has launched an AI Academy to enhance AI literacy across the firm. [Artificial Lawyer]
Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting announced enhancements to CCH Axcess, integrating AI to streamline workflows across tax return preparation, firm management, and audit. [Business Wire]
Funding
Agentech completed a US$3m seed round, leveraging AI to enhance insurance claims processing efficiency and accuracy. [Business Wire]
Palo Alto-based Archetype AI raised US$13m in seed funding for its physical AI platform which integrates real-time sensor data with natural language to tackle complex real-world problems,. [Maginative]
Attention, an AI-driven platform aimed at automating and optimizing sales team operations, raised US$14m in a Series A round. [AIM Research]
CrewAI, a San Francisco-based AI platform company, secured US$18m in funding to enhance its multi-agent capabilities and features. [FinSMEs]
DataCrunch, a Finland-based AI computing infrastructure provider, raised US$13m to expand its cost-effective, scalable services. [Tech Funding News]
dottxt has raised US$11.9m to improve LLM capabilities by structuring AI outputs for seamless integration into digital systems. [Tech.eu]
UK-based legal tech startup Genie AI raised US$17.8m in Series A funding to advance its AI legal drafting and review tools. [Law.com]
Infactory, a generative AI-based fact-checking startup, secured US$4m in seed funding, valuing it at US$25m. [TechCrunch]
Infinitus Systems raised US$51.5m in Series C funding to scale its AI-powered healthcare call automation platform. [AiThority]
Interface.ai, an AI-powered customer automation platform for banks, raised US$30m in funding to expand its team and enhance its go-to-market initiatives. [TechCrunch]
LatticeFlow AI secured US$3m to advance its AI platform for integrating governance frameworks and technical validations, partnering with KPMG for enhanced AI risk assessments. [Business Wire]
Toronto-based AI startup Mave raised CAD$2m in pre-seed funding and launched a beta program for its AI real estate assistant to enhance agent productivity. [Business Wire]
Indian startup Neysa has raised US$30m to capitalize on India’s growing AI market by offering flexible AI solutions and cloud services. [TechCrunch]
Optiwise.ai raised US$2.4m to further develop Olivia, an AI assistant for Walmart sellers to optimize listings and ensure compliance. [FinSMEs]
Oriole Networks, a startup using light to train LLMs faster with less energy, raised US$22m to scale its AI ‘super-brain’ solution. [Tech Funding News]
Warsaw-based startup Oxla secured US$11m in seed funding to enhance its data processing platform. [Tech Funding News]
Perplexity AI is seeking to raise US$500m to double its valuation to US$8 billion or more. [Yahoo Finance]
Reality Defender expanded its Series A funding to US$33m to enhance its AI-generated media detection capabilities. [AiThority]
Rollstack, a NYC-based AI software company specializing in automating data-driven slide decks, raised US$11m in Series A funding. [FinSMEs]
Simplismart AI raised US$7m to improve AI deployment with its MLOps platform. [VentureBeat]
AI startup Tennr raises US$37m to expand its specialized document automation tools for healthcare, aiming to enhance patient processing and organizational efficiency. [siliconANGLE]
TollBit, a two-sided marketplace for publishers and AI companies, has raised a US$24m Series A round. [Axios]
Acquisitions
Inflection AI acquired Boundaryless to enhance AI agent deployment in enterprises. [Business Wire]
LegalSifter has acquired Contract Logix to expand its capabilities and client base. [Artificial Lawyer]
Thomson Reuters acquired AI platform Materia to enhance efficiency in tax, audit, and accounting, with potential future applications in the legal sector. [Artificial Lawyer]
There’s More
An AI chatbot participated in a political debate with candidates for a US congressional seat. [Fast Company]
The Caribbean island of Anguilla has capitalized on the AI boom by managing the .ai web domain, significantly increasing its government revenue and supporting economic diversification and development projects. [Associated Press]
Tim Cook claims Apple Intelligence, launching in late October, is profoundly different and life-changing like the iPod’s click wheel or iPhone’s touch screen. [TechRadar]
A Massachusetts school district is being sued for punishing a student for using AI in an assignment, despite the school handbook lacking explicit AI usage rules. [Ars Technica]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized the importance of trustworthy AI for its adoption. [TechRadar]
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