Google LLC is making a new version of its popular Gemini 1.5 Flash artificial intelligence model available that’s smaller and faster than the original. It’s called Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B, and it’s much more affordable, at half the price. Gemini 1.5 Flash […]
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Artificial intelligence coding startup Poolside Inc., a rival to GitHub Inc.’s Copilot, said today it has closed on a bumper $500 million Series B raise. Today’s funds came from Bain Capital Ventures, which led the round, and it was joined
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Data storage company Vast Data Inc. is putting the infrastructure in place for enterprises that want to use data retrieval to enhance the capabilities of their artificial intelligence systems. Today it announced the launch of Vast InsightEngine with Nvidia, set
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Artificial intelligence startup and MIT spinoff Liquid AI Inc. today launched its first set of generative AI models, and they’re notably different from competing models because they’re built on a fundamentally new architecture. The new models are being called “Liquid
California Governor Gavin Newsom shot down a sweeping bill that was proposed to impose safety vetting requirements on developers of the most powerful artificial intelligence models, taking the side of most though not all of Silicon Valley and a number
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Ensemble AI Inc. is looking to tackle headaches around data quality and help companies build more powerful artificial intelligence models after closing on a $3.3 million seed funding round. Today’s round was led by Salesforce Ventures, with Amplo, M13 and
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Airtable Inc., creator of a no-code platform for building applications and workflows, is expanding on its investments in artificial intelligence with the launch of new tools that will enable every organization to start taking advantage of AI. The new products
Open-source application development platform and Postgres database service provider Supabase Inc. said today it has closed on an $80 million round of funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to $196 million. Today’s Series C round, which was first
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Salesforce Inc. has returned to Israel to make a second major acquisition, splashing out to acquire a company called Zoomin Software Ltd. that offers tools for processing unstructured data. The deal comes less than three weeks after Salesforce splurged $1.9
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