AWS re:Invent 2024 coverage; World Labs previewed its first world model; Google DeepMind previewed Genie 2; Meta released Llama 3.3 70B; xAI raised $6B; Microsoft launched Copilot Vision; Nebius raised $700M; and more.
xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup and the company behind X's chatbot Grok, has raised an additional $6B following its $6B Series B fundraiser this May. As part of the negotiations, investors who contributed to fund xAI and Musk's Twitter acquisition had access to up to 25% of xAI's shares.
Microsoft has launched the Copilot Vision preview for a small set of US-based Pro subscribers. Copilot Vision is an AI-powered feature that provides insights based on the contents of Microsoft Edge screens while prioritizing user privacy and control.
Reddit has started testing Answers, a new AI-powered search feature that enables users to ask questions in plain English about any topic they care about to surface relevant conversation summaries, links to related communities, inline answers written by real redditors, and follow-up questions.
