MongoDB recently launched its AI Applications Program (MAAP) to deliver quick building and deployment of secure generative AI apps. MAAP brings together industry leaders in diverse areas, including consultancy, foundation models, cloud infrastructure, AI frameworks, and model hosting providers.
Lithuanian startup HeavyFinance announced this week that it signed 300,000 hectares of Ukrainian farmland to its carbon farming program in collaboration with Ukraine's Agsolco. The partnership plans to enroll 500,000 ha of farmland by the end of 2024 and to issue the first credits in Q3, 2025.
The cloud infrastructure market grew 21% in Q1, 2024 from Q1, 2023, mostly driven by the accelerated adoption of generative AI, which increases demand for computing power. The numbers are still far from previous growth, but the cloud market is poised to double in size in the next four years.
Head coach for the England Women's Cricket team Jon Lewis recently revealed his approach to using AI as a selection tool to provide feedback on tough decisions about squad make-up, team balance, and in-game match-ups.
NVIDIA recently announced the expanded integration of its healthcare and life sciences focuses NIM microservices. Simplified access to NIM will enable healthcare and life sciences companies already using AWS to deploy generative AI solutions faster, and developers to multimodal AI-based workflows.
The ChatRTX update adds new AI model support, including Google's Gemma and the bilingual ChatGLM3, enabling enhanced interaction with local documents. It also adds interaction with images via OpenAI's CLIP, and voice interaction through Whisper speech recognition.
Symbe has raised £1.2 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Concept Ventures, with participation from additional investors. Symbe's AI-powered platform automates the creation of business cases so sales teams can increase the number of deals they close.
Atlassian unveiled Rovo, an AI-powered product surfacing relevant insights across data sources to drive knowledge and action. Rovo leverages 20+ years of teamwork intelligence, and turns it into a solution integrating enterprise information, conversational AI, and virtual agents to empower teams.
AISAP raised $13M in seed funding from Harel Insurance Investments and Shoni Health to accelerate the development of its POCAD software platform. The software assigns an urgency score based on the conditions' severity and scan quality scores to provide enough context for non-specialist operators.
Yelp's Spring Product Release improves the services offered to consumer and business customers. The Yelp Assistant brings conversational AI to the platform, and the new Yelp Fusion AI API enables partners to integrate conversational AI experiences leveraging Yelp's data into their platforms.
Danti recently raised $5M in seed funding to accelerate the development of its AI-powered Earth Data Analyst. The company currently focuses on its government customers, such as the US Space Force, but is looking to expand into industries such as insurance and utilities.