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Knapsack announces $10M raise destined to expand its AI-native product engine
Knapsack raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand its Intelligent Product Engine, which claims to compress product development cycles from months to days through AI-driven, centralized design and code infrastructure.
OpenAI Launches Interactive Apps Inside ChatGPT
OpenAI announced interactive apps from major companies like Spotify, Canva, and Zillow that integrate directly into ChatGPT conversations, along with a new Apps SDK for developers to build similar applications.
Firecrawl raises $14.5M Series A to power AI's web data infrastructure
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.
AI Highlights Review: August 8– 22
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.
Multiverse debuts tiny AI models that run offline without compromising performance
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.
Data Phoenix Digest
AI Highlights Review: July 23 – August 8
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
AI Highlights Review: June 27 – July 7
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.
AI Highlights Review: June 9-23
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.