Spanish AI startup Multiverse Computing released two ultra-small AI models called SuperFly (94M parameters) and ChickBrain (3.2B parameters) that can run offline on devices from smartphones to IoT appliances while matching or exceeding the performance of their larger parent models.
Firecrawl, an open-source web crawling platform used by 350,000 developers, raised $14.5 million in Series A funding to improve AI's access to web data while building a marketplace that pays content creators when their work is used to train AI systems.
DeepMind's Genie 3 preview; ElevenLabs' Eleven Music launch; Ukraine launches a sovereignty-preserving AI Factory, NVIDIA's new resources for robotics applications; Datumo raises a Series B to become a contender in the training data market; and much more.
Spanish AI startup Multiverse Computing released two ultra-small AI models called SuperFly (94M parameters) and ChickBrain (3.2B parameters) that can run offline on devices from smartphones to IoT appliances while matching or exceeding the performance of their larger parent models.
Estonian medtech startup Better Medicine raised a pre-seed €1M round to expand the EU rollout of its CE-certified AI kidney cancer detection tool and prepare for U.S. market entry. Better Medicine aims to address critical radiologist shortages with its AI-powered lesion detection solutions.
Ai2 released MolmoAct, the first open-source Action Reasoning Model that can "think" in 3D space for robotics applications, achieving state-of-the-art performance while being trained more efficiently than competing models from major tech companies.
OpenAI's very busy week, from its funding round to its model launches; Clay's $100M Series C; Lovable's new unicorn status; Latent Labs' new no-code web interface; Google DeepMind's Aeneas; FuriosaAI's new partnership with LG AI Research; and more
Apple reportedly considering third-party AI technologies to power the new Siri; Clio acquired vLex; Tech companies score two victories in copyright infringement rulings; Synthflow AI's Series A; Abridge's Series E; Harvey's $300M Series E; and more.
Meta's controversial partial acquisition of Scale AI, Microsoft's Sora-powered video generator, Moments Lab's Series B, Anysphere's third funding round, Multiverse Computing's Series B, a deep learning-assisted painting restoration technique, and more.
