Mistral AI has secured a massive Series B funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from selected top investors. The funding will allow Mistral to expand its computing capacity, grow its team, and strengthen strategies to take on its competitors.
Databricks has open-sourced its Unity Catalog, calling it the industry's first open-source catalog for unified data and AI governance across clouds, data formats, and data platforms. The Unity Catalog enables several groundbreaking features while garnering ecosystem support.
MLCommons released MLPerf Training v4.0 showcasing major performance gains. Remarkably, NVIDIA set new records using software optimizations on its Hopper architecture. MLPerf Training 4.0 introduces novel benchmarks for LoRA-based fine-tuning and graph neural network training.
Google's latest Feature Drop brings Gemini Nano to Pixel 8 and 8a phones as a developer option, enabling enhanced transcription capabilities in the Recorder app. The June Feature Drop also introduces Car Crash Detection on Pixel Watch 2 and delivers smart home control upgrades across Pixel devices.
One year after acquiring Mosaic ML, Databricks is announcing significant updates and enhancements to the platform, which include new building and deployment, evaluation and governance tools to ensure enterprises can efficiently turn state-of-the-art models into compound AI systems.
Apple is introducing Apple Intelligence, a personal AI system that deeply integrates generative AI to provide intelligent writing assistance, custom image/emoji creation, enhanced photo capabilities, and a redesigned Siri experience - all powered by a privacy-protecting architecture.
NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Microsoft are under investigation by US authorities; NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD revealed their product roadmaps at Computex 2024; Storyblok raised $80M; Raspberry Pi launched an AI Kit; CoreWeave will expand into Europe; Stability AI launched a sound effects generator; and much more.
The US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have agreed to investigate Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA over potential violations of antitrust and monopoly laws. The DoJ will review NVIDIA's chipmaking dominance as the FTC scrutinizes Microsoft's investments in AI firms.
Google has upgraded its AI research and writing assistant NotebookLM with the latest Gemini 1.5 Pro language model, added features like Slides and web URL support, and expanded NotebookLM's availability to over 200 countries.
Wix has launched a generative AI feature in its mobile app builder, which empowers users to create fully designed, professional-grade native mobile apps for iOS and Android through a conversational AI chat experience.
Google has launched a new 12-week program called "AI Academy: American Infrastructure" that will provide training, resources, and support to startups using AI to solve challenges across various public infrastructure sectors like agriculture, energy, transportation, and urban development.
The recent paper in Cell details the creation of AMPSphere, a catalog of 863,498 antimicrobial peptide sequences predicted using machine learning methods applied to genomic data. AMPSphere represents a significant advancement in leveraging AI to combat the growing antibiotic resistance crisis.