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Video-generative artificial intelligence startup Haiper said today it has raised $13.8 million in seed funding led by Octopus Ventures to help the company build its foundation model designed for animated visual content. Founded in late 2021, Haiper is led by two former researchers from …
Report: Chinese AI startup MiniMax raises $600M at $2.5B valuation led by Alibaba
Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax is raising at least $600 million in new funds with e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. as a lead investor, according to a report from Bloomberg on Monday. According to sources familiar with the matter the new funds will …
Cloudflare announces new defensive AI products for protecting LLMs and companies from attack
Cloudflare Inc., a global cloud connectivity provider company, today announced the development of Firewall for AI to provide companies a layer of protection for artificial intelligence large language models, with an aim to identify potential attacks before they can tamper with critical …
Ideogram raises $80M as it releases text-to-image model
The artificial intelligence startup Ideogram announced Wednesday that it raised $80 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz as it released the 1.0 version of its text-to-image generative AI model. The Series A round also attracted investments from existing investor Index Ventures and …
Humanoid AI-driven robotics startup Figure raises $675M at $2.6B valuation
Figure AI Inc., a Sunnyvale, California-based startup developing humanoid-styled bipedal robots, said today it raised $625 million in new funding, increasing the company’s valuation to $2.6 billion. The Series B round sees participation from technology investing giants, including Microsoft Corp., Open AI …
Microsoft introduces generative AI copilot for finance teams
Microsoft Corp. is adding a new generative artificial intelligence copilot assistant that extends its Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help finance teams to get their everyday work done. Microsoft Copilot for Finance is a new role-based generative AI assistant now in …
Google Cloud brings major AI-enabled feature updates to BigQuery and AlloyDB
Google LLC’s cloud division today rolled out major milestone feature updates to its analytical and database engines BigQuery and AlloyDB that blur the lines between the roles of data and artificial intelligence. Google Cloud today announced that BigQuery, the company’s serverless data …
How synthetic data powers AI innovation – and creates new risks
As artificial intelligence models continue to evolve at ever-increasing speed, the demand for training data and the ability to test capabilities grows alongside them. But in a world with equally growing demands for security and privacy, it’s not always possible to rely …
Writer announces Palmyra-Vision, a multimodal LLM capable of understanding images
Generative artificial intelligence startup Writer Inc. today announced the introduction of Palmyra-Vision, an AI large language model capable of text and visual understanding that can analyze images and produce text based on them. Models that are capable of understanding more than one …
Salesforce launches Einstein Copilot AI assistant into beta
Salesforce Inc. today announced the beta availability of Einstein Copilot, a customizable generative artificial intelligence conversational assistant for every Salesforce application that is also capable of executing actions on the behalf of users. Einstein Copilot integrates directly into Salesforce and understands the …