DataCrunch, a Nordic AI computing provider, has secured $13 million in seed funding to expand its renewable energy-powered infrastructure and become Europe's first green AI-focused hyperscaler.
Two AI voice startups closed funding rounds, Manifest is using AI to combat the loneliness epidemic, Galileo raised $45M in Series B funding, the creators of Outlines started dottxt, Google upgraded its Shopping and NotebookLM products, Mistral launched two tiny models, and more.
Meta FAIR has released several new open-source AI models and research tools, including an improved SAM 2.1 for image segmentation and Spirit LM for seamless speech-text integration, along with tools for LLM acceleration, cryptography, materials discovery, and cross-lingual processing.
X has updated its Terms and Privacy Policy, suggesting the platform is considering licensing user content to third parties, including for AI model training. The platform also updated its Terms of Service, committing anyone accepting them to paying liquidated damages if caught scraping X's content.
Google DeepMind researchers developed the Habermas Machine (HM), an AI system designed to mediate group discussions by generating consensus statements. The research team found strong endorsement of the AI-generated statements and a shift in the groups' opinion to the majority view after the process.
Google recently announced that it no longer considers NotebookLM an 'Experimental' product, as it introduced controls that enable users to customize the Audio Overviews based on their Notebooks. The company also announced an upcoming NotebookLM Business product.
dottxt, founded by the creators of the popular Outlines library, has raised $11.9 million to date to develop advanced structured generation solutions for large language models, aiming to ensure more reliable and predictable AI outputs.
Lightmatter secured $400 million in Series D funding to accelerate the deployment of its Passage product. Passage uses photonics technology to overcome chip interconnection bottlenecks in AI and HPC workloads, potentially revolutionizing data center performance and efficiency.
LatticeFlow launched COMPL-AI, an open-source framework for EU AI Act compliance, offering technical interpretations and evaluations of major AI models while addressing the gap between regulatory requirements and practical implementation.
Manifest, an AI-powered wellness app designed to combat loneliness among young adults by offering empathetic responses, personalized affirmations, and bite-sized meditation sessions, has emerged from stealth with $3.4 million in funding as it scales operations to meet growing demand.
London-based startup Neuphonic has developed an ultra-low latency text-to-speech engine for more natural conversational AI. Neuphonic has also secured €3.5 million in pre-seed funding to advance its technology and expand language support.
Mistral AI has launched two new compact models, Ministral 3B and 8B, which outperform comparably sized models, feature long context windows, and offer competitive pricing for several edge and on-device applications ranging from on-device translation and offline assistants to robotics.