Speak, an AI-powered English learning platform specializing in helping its users achieve spoken English fluency, recently secured $78M in Series C funding at a valuation of $1 billion.
Google unveiled Gemini 2.0 Flash, a multimodal AI model with native tool use and multimodal input and output capabilities to be available in early 2025. An experimental model version without multimodal outputs is now available through the API and on the Gemini desktop and web apps.
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.
xAI launched Aurora, a new model with image generation and understanding capabilities. According to xAI, Aurora was designed to deliver photorealistic renderings and remarkable instruction-following. X users can now try Aurora's capabilities, regardless of their subscription status.
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.
Meta launched Llama 3.3 70B, a highly performant and cost-effective open-source AI model that approaches the capabilities of larger models, signaling the company's continued commitment to accessible AI technology and setting the stage for Llama 4's release in 2025.
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.
Gleamer announced an €18 million investment in OncoView, its latest project. OncoView will support radiologists in interpreting oncology patients' CT scans. As a France 2030 laureate, OncoView will be partly funded by the French government.
PeriWatch, an AI system that tracks mothers' and babies' vital signs in real-time to detect possible anomalies shortly before and after childbirth, has helped the Area 25 hospital in Malawi reduce its stillbirth and neonatal death rate by 82%.
Google DeepMind's Genie 2 is an advanced AI world model that can generate interactive 3D environments from a single image, with capabilities for simulating virtual worlds, object interactions, and character animations. Genie 2 is primarily intended to create training environments for AI agents.
This Tuesday at re:Invent 2024, AWS announced it will expand Amazon Q Developer's capabilities. The AI-powered assistant can now assist developers in generating documentation and automating code reviews and unit test creation. The company also announced a new GitLab integration.