
Artisan brings in $2.3M to create digital workers Paid Members Public
Artisan, an AI startup focused on creating human-like digital workers known as Artisans, recently announced it raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding. The startup looks to build "out-of-the-box AI digital workers that integrate seamlessly with human teams."

Highlights from Microsoft's Ignite conference Paid Members Public
Microsoft's 2023 Ignite conference was packed with announcements heavily focused on AI integration at all levels of the company's offerings. Here, we present a selection of announcements concerning hardware for HPC and AI workloads, data science, and generative AI for sales and cybersecurity teams.

Anthropic's Claude 2.1 is now available via API and chat experience Paid Members Public
Claude 2.1 is now available over API in Anthropic's Console. The model is also powering the claude.ai chat experience. Alongside Claude's newest features, Anthropic also announced a cost-efficiency-increasing price adjustment across its models.

Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion, its open-source foundational model for video generation Paid Members Public
Stability AI announced the release of Stable Video Diffusion, its first foundational model for generative video. The company also plans to launch a series of models that build on and extend this model's capabilities to foster an ecosystem similar to the one growing around its image models.
Osium AI will boost the materials development cycle with Machine Learning Paid Members Public
French startup Osium is looking into materials science research and development as a use case for machine learning. Osium AI's solutions are data-driven tools that optimize the back-and-forth between materials formulation and testing to make it more efficient and sustainable.

Atlas emerges from stealth with $6M to develop its AI worldbuilding platform Paid Members Public
Atlas has finally launched after completing two funding rounds, with $6 million raised. Atlas plans to invest the funds to expand its developer tool suite and launch a self-service 3D AI creator platform so individuals can profit from the proprietary software.

Giskard's collaborative open-source platform helps developers build better AI products Paid Members Public
Giskard is a European startup working on collaborative, open-source software that ensures the quality of AI models. Its framework currently consists of three elements: the ML Testing Library, the AI Quality Hub, and the LLM monitoring tool LLMon.

Continue concluded its first round of funding with $2.1M Paid Members Public
Continue, the open-source coding autopilot, announced it has raised $2.1 million in its first funding round at the end of YCS23. The company plans to use the raised funds to keep working towards their goal of "making building software feel like making music."