Aleph Alpha has released Pharia-1-LLM-7B, a new open-source foundation model family designed for concise, length-controlled responses, optimized for German, French, and Spanish, and trained on carefully curated data in compliance with EU regulations.
Viggle AI, a Canadian startup revolutionizing character animation through AI, has secured $19 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to scale its text-to-video and image-to-video animation platform, which has already gained viral fame and attracted millions of users.
Inflection AI, the creator of the personal AI assistant Pi, is introducing data portability for all users and message limits for its free tier as the company shifts its focus toward bringing its emotionally intelligent AI-powered assistant to the workplace.
Ideogram-2 and Meshy-4 launch; Reliant AI launches AI-powered analytics for the life sciences; Logically acquired Insikt AI; SleekFlow secured $7M in funding: Dropbox acquired Reclaim.ai; BeyondMath secured $8.5 million for the development of its digital wind tunnel; and much more.
The Weeknd has released an AI-generated concert teaser trailer, directed by visual artist YZA Voku and created using multiple AI tools, showcasing the artist's embrace of generative AI technology in music promotion despite ongoing controversies surrounding AI's use of copyrighted material.
Meshy has launched Meshy-4, a major update to their AI-powered 3D model generation platform. Meshy-4 features improved geometry, a new Text to 3D workflow, a retry feature, and model selection options, and aims to enhance the quality and usability of AI-generated 3D assets.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek authored a joint statement urging the European Union to embrace open-source AI and simplify its regulatory landscape to avoid falling behind in AI innovation and competitiveness.
Redis has unveiled a suite of AI-focused products, including Redis for AI, Redis Copilot, and enhanced vector database capabilities in Redis 8, aimed at simplifying and accelerating the development and deployment of GenAI applications.
Piramidal, a healthcare AI startup, is developing a groundbreaking foundation model for EEG data that will unlock a series of use cases in medical settings, from assisting in diagnosing neurological conditions to supporting the discovery of biomarkers for drug and treatment development.
AI startup Harmonyze has secured over $2 million in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform that automates and streamlines franchise operations, potentially transforming the $5 trillion global franchise market by increasing efficiency and profitability.
BeyondMath's digital wind tunnel uses machine learning to provide near real-time simulations of complex aerodynamics, significantly accelerating the engineering process and cutting costs. The company boasts F1 as an early adopter and recently raised an $8.5M seed round led by UP.Partners.
Reclaim.ai, an intelligent scheduling assistant that optimizes users' calendars by automatically managing time blocks for activities and facilitating smart scheduling of recurring meetings, announced its plans to continue developing its product after being acquired by Dropbox.