Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Estuary Technologies Inc. has raised $17 million in early-stage funding to try to merge batch and streaming data into a single pipeline so it can simplify how information is fed into artificial intelligence applications. Today’s Series A round was led by M13 …
Adobe’s AI Foundry service lets companies create branded versions of its Firefly models
Adobe Inc. is moving artificial intelligence into a slightly new direction, giving businesses the chance to create custom generative AI models rather than fine-tune existing ones. The company is offering this through its new Adobe AI Foundry offering, which was announced today …
Anthropic takes aim at biotech with Claude for Life Sciences
Anthropic PBC has had a busy start to the week, launching a new tool called Claude for Life Sciences to help with scientific research, and expanding the availability of its Claude Code agentic coding tool to the web and its mobile application. …
Encord creates a new method for training powerful multimodal AI models on a single GPU
Artificial intelligence data annotation startup Encord, officially known as Cord Technologies Inc., wants to break down barriers to training multimodal AI models. To do that, it has just released what it says is the world’s largest open-source multimodal dataset to help developers …
Kong debuts tools for metering and monetizing APIs and AI agents
The API technology Kong Inc. announced a flurry of innovations this week at its annual developer conference, headlined by a new offering that enables companies to make money from their application programming interfaces, data streams and artificial intelligence models. The new offering …
Anthropic’s Skills for Claude helps AI agents perform certain tasks better than before
Anthropic PBC wants to make artificial intelligence agents more effective when it comes to doing real work, and its latest idea is to provide them with additional “skills” that can help them when assigned a very specific task. The company announced Skills …
Google’s DeepMind and CFS are building an AI plasma control system for nuclear fusion
Google LLC’s DeepMind research unit is partnering with the nuclear fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC to see if it can help it generate almost unlimited amounts of clean energy using its most advanced artificial intelligence models. DeepMind will help the energy …
Microsoft- and Nvidia-backed AI consortium buys Aligned Data Centers for $40B
An artificial intelligence infrastructure consortium led by Microsoft Corp., Nvidia Corp. and BlackRock Inc. today announced it’s planning to buy Aligned Data Centers LLC in a deal valued at about $40 billion. It’s one of the largest-ever acquisitions of data centers, designed …
AI startup Viven raises $35M to create digital twins that fill in for absent team members
An artificial intelligence startup called Viven is pitching the idea of digital twins of enterprise employees that can aid in collaboration after raising $35 million in seed funding. The round, announced today, was led by Khosla Ventures and saw participation from Foundation …
Meta to use Arm’s energy-efficient Neoverse GPUs for some AI workloads
Meta Platforms Inc. said today it’s working with the British chip designer Arm Holdings Plc and will use its processors to help scale the artificial intelligence systems that drive some of the personalization features on applications such as Facebook and Instagram. The …