This Week in NLP #311
Keep up with what happened in NLP in the week ending Friday 1st November 2024.
Above the Fold
Overwhelmed? Here’s our pick for five things to know about this week.
Apple's rollout of AI features in iOS 18.2 has disappointed some users due to bugs and long waitlists. [Yahoo]
Google is developing Project Jarvis to automate web tasks, similar to OpenAI's and Anthropic's efforts, with a preview expected December 2024. [Verdict]
OpenAI's new ChatGPT search service poses a significant threat to Google's search dominance, leveraging AI to offer conversational and comprehensive search capabilities. [Yahoo Finance]
Google also launched a real-time search feature for its Gemini AI platform, enhancing developer tools with fresh search data, while facing competition from OpenAI's consumer-focused ChatGPT Search. [VentureBeat]
OpenAI's former AGI readiness leader, Miles Brundage, warns that neither OpenAI nor the world is prepared for the upcoming advancements in AI. [Futurism]
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The Generative AI Wars
Amazon's AI-powered shopping assistant Rufus, initially launched in the US, is now rolling out in beta across Europe, including Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. [Engadget]
Anthropic has updated Claude to write and execute Javascript code, enhancing its ability to analyze data with mathematical precision. [TechRadar]
But Claude’s AI data analysis tool is more limited than ChatGPT Plus, with reduced capabilities and data handling capacity. [ZDNet]
Apple has launched Apple Intelligence, integrating AI features like writing tools and notification summaries into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, but initial offerings may not drastically change user experience. [Engadget]
And Apple Intelligence will launch in the EU in April 2025 with local language support, despite Apple’s previous blaming of EU regulations for its initial rollout limitations. [TechCrunch]
AWS announced the release of Amazon Q Developer, an AI assistant integrated within IDEs, offering code optimization and documentation features. [VentureBeat]
Google's Project Astra, focused on real-time AI applications and agents, won’t launch until 2025, despite earlier plans for a 2024 release. [TechCrunch]
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta’s Llama 4 is being trained on over 100,000 GPUs, promising advanced capabilities and aiming for early 2024 release. [Wired]
Meta's NotebookLlama uses Llama models to create podcast-style audio from text files. [TechCrunch]
Meta is collaborating with the US government to explore Llama’s applications in sectors like the State Department and Department of Education. [The Verge]
Microsoft is expanding its AI tools with GitHub Copilot for Azure. [VentureBeat]
Microsoft has further delayed its Recall feature for Copilot Plus PCs to December, focusing on security revisions and clarifying its optional status. [The Verge]
Microsoft’s financial disclosures show how OpenAI is fuelling growth and taking a toll on profits. [GeekWire]
Nvidia is expanding its AI presence in India by partnering with major firms like Reliance and Tech Mahindra, focusing on AI infrastructure and language models. [TechCrunch]
OpenAI, Google, xAI, Meta, and Anthropic are all racing to release their next AI models this December, with varying rollout strategies. [The Verge]
The Verge reported OpenAI's plans for a new AI model, Orion, but CEO Sam Altman called the claim ‘fake news’ without denying specific details. [VentureBeat]
OpenAI and Microsoft are negotiating OpenAI’s valuation and future equity distribution as OpenAI transitions to a for-profit. [Yahoo Finance]
OpenAI, primarily earning from consumer subscriptions, has 250 million weekly users. [Yahoo Finance]
Meanwhile, Perplexity's AI-powered search engine handles 100 million weekly queries. [TechCrunch]
Salesforce launched Agentforce, a low-code AI agent platform for deploying chatbots, emphasized as a partnership with humans to enhance customer interactions. [TechCrunch]
Feature Creeps
Anthropic expanded Claude AI with new desktop apps for Windows and MacOS, alongside a dictation mode for mobile. [ZDNet]
GitHub is expanding its AI-powered Copilot, adding support for AI models from Anthropic and Google, enhanced code editing, Xcode integration, and new tools like Spark for accessible software creation. [VentureBeat]
Google is expanding its ‘Help me write’ feature with AI-powered email drafting and editing to Gmail on the web. [The Verge]
Google Maps is introducing AI-powered features with Gemini for enhanced navigation, location recommendations, and traffic reporting. [TechCrunch]
OpenAI aims to expand services for its 250 million ChatGPT users, exploring new business models like ads. [ZDNet]
OpenAI updated its Realtime API, adding five new voices for speech-to-speech applications, lowering costs with prompt caching, and addressing latency concerns. [VentureBeat]
OpenAI has also launched ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode on desktop for Mac and PC, offering a voice-interactive experience similar to its mobile version. [TechRadar]
And a new feature in ChatGPT allows users to easily search past conversations by keyword, enhancing accessibility and functionality. [TechRadar]
Elon Musk’s xAI has enhanced its Grok AI model with image-understanding capabilities, allowing paid users on X to upload images and ask related questions. [TechCrunch]
Hype Bubble?
Linus Torvalds criticized AI as mostly marketing hype. [TechRadar]
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff criticized Microsoft's AI products for overhyping their capabilities and disappointing customers. [Fortune]
Gartner predicts AI agents will transform work, but disillusionment is growing. [VentureBeat]
Meanwhile, a new study by the AI at Wharton research centre reveals a doubling of AI use across key business functions. [Business Wire]
And Snowflake's customers report early success with generative AI applications, significantly reducing costs and time, and improving efficiency in tasks like email management. [ZDNet]
The tech sector is seeing a rise in automation systems claiming to be AI agents, necessitating clear differentiation. [VentureBeat]
Hardware
Cerebras Systems Inference’s latest update boosts performance to 2,100 tokens per second for Llama 3.1-70B, significantly outpacing GPUs. [Cerebras]
Normal Computing UK was selected for the Advanced Research + Invention Agency’s £50M Scaling Compute Programme to innovate AI hardware efficiency and reduce costs by using thermodynamic computing. [PR Newswire]
Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs are sold out until 2025, benefiting tech giants and disadvantaging smaller companies. [eWeek]
Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet networking enables xAI's Colossus supercomputer, powered by 100,000 Hopper GPUs, to achieve unprecedented performance in AI model training. [Yahoo Finance]
OpenAI is collaborating with Broadcom and TSMC to develop its first custom AI chip, expanding sources to include AMD and Nvidia, and planning a 2026 chip launch. [Verdict]
Oriole Networks aims to revolutionize AI training by using photonic networks to increase speed 100x and reduce energy consumption. [TechRadar]
Untether AI announced the availability of its speedAI 240 Slim AI inference accelerator cards, offering high performance and energy efficiency for edge and datacenter applications. [Business Wire]
Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI. [The Economist]
It’s Only a Model
Chinese AI startup 01.AI launched the model Yi-Lightning, which surpasses GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 on the LMSYS leaderboard. [Analytics India Magazine]
Cohere has introduced Aya Expanse, a cutting-edge multilingual model family aimed at bridging the language gap using AI. [Cohere]
Google's next-gen Gemini 2.0 AI model is rumored to launch in December with performance improvements. [TechRadar]
Haiper has launched its Haiper 2.0 model to enhance hyper-realistic video creation, featuring faster generation and new Templates. [PR Newswire]
Hawkish 8B, a new AI model designed for finance, excels at passing CFA Level 1 exams and surpasses other models in financial and math benchmarks. [Marktechpost Media]
iAsk’s Pro model outperformed human experts and OpenAI's o1 in the GPQA benchmark, achieving 78.3% accuracy in answering complex graduate-level questions. [Business Wire]
Meta released quantized Llama 3.2 1B and 3B models for low-powered devices. [siliconANGLE]
And Meta announced the open-source release of MobileLLM models for mobile devices, available on Hugging Face. [VentureBeat]
Microsoft's OmniParser model is a vision-based tool that enables accurate, cross-platform GUI parsing without relying on metadata. [Marktechpost Media]
Nvidia's Nemotron-4-Mini-Hindi-4B model enables Hindi-specific AI solutions, with Tech Mahindra, Sarvam AI, and others leveraging it for various applications. [Analytics India Magazine]
Recraft V3, formerly Red Panda, is a top-ranking AI image generator offering enhanced control for designers, now available with various subscription plans. [TechRadar]
Rhymes AI introduced Aria, an efficient, open-source multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model outperforming other open models in benchmarks. [InfoQ]
Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large and Large Turbo, emphasizing customizability and efficiency, available for free non-commercial use and limited commercial use. [InfoQ]
Zhipu AI's GLM-4-Voice, an open-source speech model, enhances human-machine interaction by integrating advanced features like emotion and dialect adjustment in real-time. [Marktechpost Media]
Open source LLMs are gaining traction in enterprises due to their control, customization, cost efficiency, and improved quality, challenging closed-source dominance. [VentureBeat]
And the Open Source Initiative’s definition of open AI challenges tech giants like Meta, whose Llama model doesn’t meet the standard. [The Verge]
Whose Data?
A German court ruled LAION's AI dataset legal under EU copyright exceptions, emphasizing the application of text and data mining rules to AI training. [TechDirt]
Meta has partnered with Reuters in a multi-year deal to use its news content for AI chatbot responses, while Reuters will be compensated for its content. [The Verge]
Perplexity criticized News Corp’s lawsuit over content scraping, arguing it reflects a shortsighted media-tech conflict and defending its revenue-sharing initiatives. [The Verge]
And Perplexity’s CEO wouldn’t say how Perplexity defines plagiarism in an on-stage interview at TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2024 conference. [TechCrunch]
The parent company of academic publisher Taylor & Francis anticipates earning £58m from AI partnerships in 2024, driven by collaboration with AI firms like Microsoft, despite academic concerns. [The Bookseller]
Trainspot has launched a transparent marketplace for AI training data, empowering content owners to monetize their data and enabling developers to access legally compliant datasets. [Business Wire]
Universal Music Group is collaborating with AI companies to ethically train generative AI music models, aiming to protect copyrights while monetizing AI-generated music. [VentureBeat]
The LLM Ecosystem
Aarna.ml released Version 2.0 of its GPU Cloud Management Software to enhance AI cloud providers’ ability to optimize, scale, and manage GPU resources efficiently. [Analytics India Magazine]
Accion Labs has launched ‘GenAI In A Box’, a comprehensive AI solution enhancing enterprise AI adoption with optimized hardware, data security, and cost efficiency. [EIN Presswire]
DataStax has enhanced its GitHub Copilot Extension, allowing developers to streamline AI application development by integrating Astra DB and Langflow features directly within their IDE. [Business Wire]
GitHub is expanding its Copilot tool with multi-model options, launching the AI tool Spark for web apps, and updating Copilot for VS Code and Xcode. [The Verge]
Google DeepMind's Talker-Reasoner framework enables AI agents to balance intuitive and analytical reasoning using a dual-system model inspired by human cognition. [VentureBeat]
Google Cloud announced enhancements to its AI infrastructure with new TPUs, Nvidia GPUs, and Virtual Machines to boost performance and reduce costs for AI applications. [TechRepublic]
Hugging Face introduced HUGS, a more cost-effective and versatile alternative to Nvidia's NIMs, enabling AI model deployment across various hardware platforms. [The Register]
IBM introduced a new AI agent feature in its watsonx.ai platform to streamline AI development, offering flexibility and ease of deployment through low-code tools and open-source frameworks. [Analytics India Magazine]
Iterate.ai is partnering with Intel to bring its secure AI Manager, Generate, to Intel AI PCs, enhancing productivity and privacy with local LLM-powered capabilities. [AiThority]
Mosaic AI introduced a scalable, efficient batch LLM inference solution integrated with familiar SQL interfaces, enabling governed data analysis for large-scale datasets. [Databricks]
Neota Logic announced the release of Architect and Designer, enhancing its platform with AI and no-code tools for efficient web application development. [PRWeb]
NXP Semiconductors has expanded its AI toolkit to facilitate faster and easier deployment of AI models on edge devices. [Computer Weekly]
Peloton Consulting Group has launched an AI-powered Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence Accelerator to enhance data intelligence and expedite deployment. [EIN Presswire]
PyTorch 2.5 includes Intel GPU support, FlexAttention API, performance enhancements, and new debugging tools, unlocking PyTorch compatibility for millions of Intel devices. [InfoQ]
Securiti's Gencore AI is a comprehensive solution that enables enterprises to build safe AI systems by integrating data governance with AI, leveraging Nvidia NIM microservices. [Business Wire]
Tabnine has introduced a hyper-personalized AI Code Review Agent that autonomously enforces team-specific coding standards and improves software quality, security, and compliance. [AiThority]
Tata Consultancy Services is partnering with Nvidia to launch a business unit focused on accelerating AI adoption in key industries via specialized solutions and collaborations. [Verdict]
Timescale is enhancing its open-source PostgreSQL database with new AI capabilities, enabling seamless integration of time series and vector data for generative AI applications. [VentureBeat]
Other LLM Sightings
AuditBoard is introducing AI enhancements—Automated Vendor Assessments, Intelligent Staffing, and Automated Framework Updates—to streamline workflows in audit, risk, and InfoSec management. [KMWorld]
Brightcove announced plans to expand its AI Suite with an AI-Text-to-Video pilot, enhancing video content creation and audience engagement. [Business Wire]
Colle AI plans to integrate xAI's Grok API to enhance its NFT platform’s content generation capabilities. [EIN Presswire]
Creatio's Energy 8.2 update integrates no-code development with AI capabilities, offering a unified CRM solution to enhance automation and productivity. [VentureBeat]
EY has launched EY Competitive Edge, a cloud-based platform using generative AI and Microsoft tech, to deliver tailored, real-time market insights to clients. [International Accounting Bulletin]
Lazy AI has launched customizable AI agents to accelerate data automation for businesses. [PRWeb]
LinkedIn has launched an AI-powered Hiring Assistant to streamline recruitment by automating administrative tasks. [TechRadar]
Microsoft and Rezolve AI have expanded their partnership to distribute AI-driven retail solutions via Azure. [EIN Presswire]
Marchex announced its new advanced AI solutions for various industries to enhance lead identification, marketing optimization, and customer insights. [Business Wire]
MHC has launched AI Assist to enhance its EngageCX customer communications management platform, enabling business users to manage customer communications with AI-driven tools for improved precision and compliance. [PR Newswire]
Here’s how The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool. [Ars Technica]
Omneky has launched AI-powered advertising agents that aim to revolutionize campaign management. [MarTech Series]
Opsera's expanded AI Code Assistant Insights enhance developer productivity. [AiThority]
Pegasystems, a workflow automation platform provider, announced Pega Infinity 24.2, featuring enhanced AI capabilities to boost productivity and optimize customer interactions. [Business Wire]
Qualcomm is integrating advanced AI technologies into vehicles, enhancing in-car voice assistants. [Axios]
RingCentral announced its AI Assistant, offering advanced note-taking, transcription, and translation features. [Business Wire]
Smashing curates web content with community-building features and AI tools to tailor user experiences and insights. [TechCrunch]
Tutor CoPilot, an AI tool developed with GPT-4, enhances tutors’ ability to teach math to underserved students by providing expert guidance. [MIT Technology Review]
Website builder Webflow has enhanced its platform with AI features, including a virtual assistant and optimization tools, to streamline web design and improve user experience. [TechRadar]
Risks
Alaska officials used AI-generated fake studies to justify a proposed school phone ban, misleadingly citing non-existent research in policy documents. [TechDirt]
OpenAI disbanded its AGI Readiness Team, raising concerns about AI safety and regulation, as key executives, including Miles Brundage, depart amid ongoing internal changes. [The Decoder]
Researchers discovered that OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper often creates false transcriptions, posing risks in medical and other sensitive applications. [Associated Press]
But hospitals are using it anyway. [Wired]
Despite rising consumer awareness of privacy laws, nearly a third of generative AI users share sensitive data with chatbots. [TechRadar]
Responses
Apple is offering up to US$1m in a bug bounty program for hacking vulnerabilities in its Private Cloud Compute servers as part of its AI service security measures. [ZDNet]
Character.ai implemented new safety measures for its chatbots, focusing on minors and content moderation, following a lawsuit related to a user’s suicide. [TechRadar]
Google DeepMind and Hugging Face's SynthID Text tool enables watermarking of AI-generated text without altering LLM quality. [VentureBeat]
OpenAI is open-sourcing a new benchmark called SimpleQA that measures the factuality of language models. [OpenAI]
And here’s OpenAI’s approach to AI and national security. [OpenAI]
Patronus AI launched a self-serve API that aims to stop AI hallucinations. [VentureBeat]
And RELAI has launched AI agents to detect hallucinations in popular language models like GPT-4 and Claude. [AiThority]
Meanwhile, a new study reveals that LLMs can identify their own mistakes. [VentureBeat]
Regulation
The EU is reviewing Nvidia's US$700m acquisition of Run:ai for potential competition concerns, possibly delaying the deal and signaling increased antitrust scrutiny. [TechCrunch]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority is investigating Alphabet's US$2B investment in Anthropic to assess potential competition impacts in the AI market. [TechRepublic]
The evolving global AI regulatory landscape is fragmented, challenging organizations to navigate diverse obligations while the EU attempts to lead with its AI Act. [Computer Weekly]
Conversational AI
AGII, a Web3 and AI platform, is launching enhanced chatbot and speech-to-text features to improve user engagement and service quality within the Web3 ecosystem. [EIN Presswire]
Calabrio has introduced two AI-powered solutions, Auto QM and Trending Topics, to automate contact center processes and improve customer service and agent experiences. [Business Wire]
Cerence has expanded its partnership with Renault to enhance the Reno in-car companion with generative AI, improving interaction and vehicle insights for drivers. [GlobeNewswire]
Cisco is enhancing customer interactions with AI-powered Webex tools, aiming for improved satisfaction and efficiency by automating customer inquiries and facilitating seamless interactions. [Computer Weekly]
Conversica unveiled advancements in its AI agents, integrating cutting-edge technologies from OpenAI, Meta, and Google, to enhance revenue conversions through customizable, brand-safe, omnichannel conversations. [Business Wire]
Hatch's AI-first platform enables businesses to enhance customer satisfaction and drive revenue by deploying AI-powered customer service representatives. [PRWeb]
ibex has launched the ibex Wave iX AI Virtual Agent, an AI-driven solution for scalable, personalized customer interactions. [GlobeNewswire]
Kustomer has launched a fully AI-native customer service solution, enhancing personalized customer experiences through integrated AI agents and AI voice capabilities. [Business Wire]
LivePerson and Telnyx are partnering to enhance AI-powered real-time customer engagement by streamlining API integration and driving messaging and voice innovations. [EIN Presswire]
Posh AI has launched REALM, a reasoning engine integrating multiple AI models to enhance conversational AI in financial services. [Business Wire]
Zoom's AI Companion 2.0 enhances productivity and connectivity by expanding AI capabilities across its platform, synthesizing information, and transforming interactions into actionable insights. [Computer Weekly]
Be Real
Ircam Amplify's AI Speech Detector offers a scalable solution for identifying AI-generated voice deepfakes with 98% accuracy. [Speech Technology Magazine]
Despite Medium's efforts to curb AI-generated content, a significant portion of its posts—around 40%—are likely AI-generated, though many receive little engagement. [Wired]
Resemble AI has expanded its deepfake detection platform to support images and videos, offering unified and accurate real-time analysis across all media types. [PRWeb]
Robert Downey Jr. vows there will never be a digital AI replica of him on-screen. [TechRadar]
Runway's Act-One is a state-of-the-art tool that enables expressive character animations. [Runway]
Voice News
ElevenLabs’ Prompt Guide helps optimize Voice Design by providing detailed instructions and sample prompts for creating high-quality voices. [ElevenLabs]
Google is introducing 15 more African languages across Voice Search, talk-to-type on Gboard and Google Translate dictation. [Google]
OpenAI's Whisper AI transcription tool’s hallucinations are prompting experts to recommend alternatives like Otter.ai for more reliable transcriptions. [ZDNet]
SoundHound AI's phone ordering technology has processed over 100 million interactions with restaurant customers. [Business Wire]
Telnyx has launched Voice AI, a solution for enhanced, human-like customer interactions using advanced natural language understanding and real-time responsiveness. [EIN Presswire]
Waze is testing a voice reporting feature using AI to streamline traffic incident reports. [The Verge]
Document AI
ABBYY unveiled new AI capabilities enhancing document processing and automation efficiency, featured in their Purpose-Built AI Center. [Business Wire]
Bizagi's Fall 2024 release introduces AI Agents that process documents and images to enhance automation and productivity in enterprise environments. [PRWeb]
Google's InkSight AI system transforms handwritten notes into digital text, enabling digital benefits like searchability and organization. [VentureBeat]
Neota Logic announced Neota Velocity, a no-code automation suite designed to expedite document automation and reduce risks for corporate and legal clients. [PRWeb]
Notion is launching a customizable Mail app in early 2025, integrating with Google accounts and featuring AI organization. [The Verge]
Nvidia plans to release a groundbreaking AI-enabled PDF reader, potentially revolutionizing data extraction from PDFs. [InformationWeek]
Translation
Cohere released two new multilingual AI models, Aya Expanse 8B and 35B, outperforming similar-sized models from Google, Mistral AI, and Meta. [VentureBeat]
Google Translate has added Inuktut as its first Canadian indigenous language. [MultiLingual]
Wilby.Ai has launched what it says is quantum-powered real-time video translation for TV shows, enabling instant multilingual broadcasting without delays. [EIN Presswire]
Search
Cohere released Multimodal Embed 3, a cutting-edge AI search model enhancing business value from image data. [Cohere]
Coveo is partnering with Shopify to bring scalable AI search and generative commerce experiences to enterprise customers. [MarTech Series]
Google is expanding AI Overviews in Search to over 100 countries with enhanced language support, aiming to reach 1 billion monthly users. [Engadget]
Meta is reportedly developing a search engine to reduce its AI’s reliance on Google and Microsoft. [Engadget]
Moveworks launched Moveworks Enterprise Search, an AI-powered solution for efficient, accurate enterprise search to overcome limitations of traditional RAG systems. [Business Wire]
Could AI search break the web? [MIT Technology Review]
Health Tech
Athenahealth has launched Ambient Notes, an AI-driven solution to streamline clinical documentation, allowing clinicians to personalize and choose between AI models to optimize patient care. [Business Wire]
Helfie AI has partnered with Microsoft to offer its AI-powered health assessment tools through Azure Marketplace. [Business Wire]
Laguna Health's conversational AI platform for care teams was selected for TIME’s Best Inventions of 2024. [PR Newswire]
Nabla uses a customized Whisper model to ensure accurate and reliable medical documentation by mitigating hallucinations and obtaining clinician feedback. [Nabla]
Prudential is implementing Google's MedLM generative AI models to expedite and enhance the accuracy of medical insurance claim processin. [ZDNet]
Sorcero, in partnership with Springer Nature, has launched an AI-driven SaaS solution to improve adverse event monitoring and enhance global patient safety through automated literature analysis. [PRWeb]
A UC San Diego study found that AI can streamline hospital quality reporting by efficiently processing data, reducing costs, and enhancing patient care. [UC San Diego Today]
Legal Tech
CobbleStone Software has formed a services partnership with IT firm Softthink Solutions to enhance contract lifecycle management offerings using AI-backed features. [PRWeb]
Legal Decoder and Laurel have partnered to improve legal billing compliance by integrating AI-driven timesheet automation and analytics. [PRWeb]
Ntracts is partnering with DocJuris to integrate AI-powered contract review into its CLM platform, enhancing efficiency, compliance, and negotiation processes for healthcare organizations. [Business Wire]
Spellbook integrates with Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law database, enhancing AI drafting capabilities. [Artificial Lawyer]
Steno has launched Transcript Genius, a free AI-powered tool for attorneys to efficiently analyze transcripts, extract insights, and enhance case strategy. [EIN Presswire]
Funding
Auquan, an AI innovator for financial services, raised US$4.5m to expand its teams, automating complex workflows for major global financial institutions using RAG technology. [Business Wire]
Avina raised US$3.2m in seed funding to expand its AI-driven sales companion platform, which aids B2B sales teams through data insights and communication assistance. [FinSMEs]
Boardy, a professional networking startup using AI voice technology, closed a US$3m pre-seed round to enhance its AI capabilities. [TechCrunch]
Botzbrain launched a US$3m Indiegogo campaign to expand Fiona, their AI assistant that helps users manage time efficiently and boosts productivity. [EIN Presswire]
Brightwave secured US$15m in Series A funding for its AI-powered financial research platform. [Business Wire]
Seattle-based startup Cascade AI, which raised US$3.75m, uses AI to automate HR support. [GeekWire]
Coframe raised US$9.3m to fund its platform that optimizes websites through generative AI. [Reuters]
Cornerstone AI, maker of an AI software solution that cleans real world healthcare data, raised US$5m. [FinSMEs]
Fixify raised US$25m in Series A funding to scale its AI-powered IT help desk and enhance product development. [FinSMEs]
AI-powered health and fitness app Healthify raised US$45m to enhance its AI capabilities. [Analytics India Magazine]
Infinitus Systems raised US$51.5m in Series C financing to enhance its AI platform that automates healthcare phone calls. [FinSMEs]
Mave, an AI assistant for real estate, raised CAD$2m to expand operations. [FinSMEs]
Moondream, with US$4.5m funding, offers a highly efficient, small AI vision-language model, emphasizing edge computing to reduce costs and enhance privacy. [VentureBeat]
Naptha AI raised US$6m in pre-seed funding to develop a decentralized, multi-agent AI orchestration platform. [Business Wire]
Voice AI start-up Neuphonic raised GBP 3m to enhance real-time, life-like text-to-speech technology. [Slator]
Noma, an Israeli startup, has introduced a comprehensive AI enterprise security platform, securing US$32m in funding to enhance AI model security for businesses. [VentureBeat]
Nooks, an AI sales assistant platform, raised US$43m in Series B funding to automate and enhance sales team efficiency. [FinSMEs]
NYC-based edtech company Oboe raised US$4m in Seed funding to expand operations and development of AI-driven personalized learning tools. [FinSMEs]
Persana AI secured US$2.3m in funding to enhance its AI-powered prospecting platform, offering automated, data-driven sales solutions. [GlobeNewswire]
Pharos, an AI-driven hospital quality reporting platform, raised US$5m to expand its engineering team and automate clinical quality metrics reporting. [PR Newswire]
Potato AI, maker of an AI scientific research assistant, raised a US$1m pre-seed round. [GeekWire]
Seattle startup Read AI, valued at US$450m, raised US$50m in Series B funding and launched a Gmail productivity extension driven by AI insights. [Tech Funding News]
Regal secured US$40m to enhance its AI Phone Agents for various industries, offering customer-centric contact center solutions. [FinSMEs]
Sana, a Stockholm-based AI enterprise knowledge company, raised US$55m to launch custom AI agents. [FinSMEs]
Sapien raised US$8.7m in seed funding to streamline complex financial workflows via its platform for creating AI ‘autonomous coworkers’. [Fortune]
Semble raised US$15m in Series B funding to enhance its clinical system’s automation and integration capabilities, advancing AI-driven healthcare solutions. [Tech Funding News]
Sierra raised US$175m to enhance its AI customer service chatbots, valuing the company at US$4.5 billion. [TechCrunch]
Wobby, an AI-powered information platform from Antwerp, raised €1.1m to expand in Europe and the US. [FinSMEs]
Zenity secured US$38m in Series B funding to enhance AI application security and expand enterprise adoption. [AiThority]
And Musk’s xAI is in talks to raise funding valuing it at US$40B. [The Wall Street Journal]
There’s More
Hey Alexa, where’s my Star Trek Computer? [The Verge]
Reid Hoffman advocates for AI as a tool to enhance human capabilities, emphasizing ‘super agency’ over replacement, amid concerns about its societal impact. [VentureBeat]
While over 75% of developers rely on AI for daily tasks, 39% express distrust in AI-generated code. [ZDNet]
Meanwhile, Google is heavily integrating AI into its products and operations, with AI-generated code accounting for over a quarter of new code. [The Verge]
AI algorithms can interpret pig sounds to assess their emotions and improve their well-being. [TechRadar]
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