CoreWeave recently completed a $1.1 billion Series C funding round led by Coatue, with the participation of former lead investor Magnetar, and others. CoreWeave has stated that the new funds will drive the company's growth and global expansion.
GitHub is reimagining the development environment with GitHub Copilot Workspace, a Copilot-native environment. GitHub Copilot Workspace sparks collaborative workflows with Copilot-powered agents throughout the full development process while enabling developers to retain control over every step.
Google recently upgraded the Gemini chatbot service. The mobile app and Google Assistant opt-in are available in over 100 countries and territories in nine major languages. Gemini can also be prompted from the Chrome address bar, and Extensions works for all the languages supported by the models.
Jasper Baur and Gabriel Steinberg founded Safe Pro AI to tackle the challenges associated with demining. Their technology uses a machine learning model to analyze drone imagery to locate over 150 artifact types. Some humanitarian organizations currently leverage the technology to demine Ukraine.
Snowflake Arctic innovates by setting a new baseline for cost-efficient large language model training. It combines a dense transformer with a residual MoE to achieve model quality and cost-effective inference and training in coding, SQL, instruction-following, and answer grounding.
Apple recently released the OpenELM (Open Efficient Language Model) family of models on Hugging Face. Other than the models' size, a key differentiator of the OpenELM models is the approach to non-uniform parameter allocation within each transformer model layer.
Coca-Cola and Microsoft recently expanded their strategic partnership, with the former selecting Microsoft as its preferred and strategic partner. Currently, the partnership focuses on providing Coca-Cola with expanded access to Microsoft's cloud and AI platforms and solutions.
The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) and Microsoft recently announced their collaboration on an AI Innovation Lab. Two major developments leveraging the AI Innovation Lab are the creation of an internal-facing chatbot to boost marketing effectiveness and acceleration of product development.
Vancouver-based Sanctuary AI unveiled the next generation of Phoenix, its general-purpose robot. Sanctuary AI is tackling the artificial general intelligence problem by mimicking human subsystems, and 7th-gen Phoenix is its most sophisticated human behavioral data capture technology to date.
Treefera is an AI-enabled data platform bringing transparency and accuracy to nature-based asset reporting; providing, for instance, an auditable chain of custody for biochar production. The platform offers continuous monitoring, evaluates risks, and ensures process integrity.
The Cohere Toolkit provides open-source, production-ready applications integrating with cloud providers and private environments. It includes building blocks for developing scalable AI apps like knowledge assistants tailored to enterprise data and teams.
Augment raised a $227M Series B round. Its platform empowers developers with AI that understands codebases, supports teams, and protects IP. Augment was built with the belief that the best software development happens when AI empowers, rather than replaces, humans.