Yelp's Spring Product Release improves the service's experience with new AI-powered features
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 secured $5 million to accelerate its AI-powered Earth data analyst
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.
Anthropic has launched the Claude Team Plan and iOS app
Anthropic has announced a Team plan for enterprise Claude users, featuring increased usage, access to all Claude 3 models, and a large context window. The Team plan is $30 monthly per user, with a minimum of 5 users. In parallel, the company launched an iOS mobile app for all users.
The US Department of Commerce is taking action to enforce President Biden’s Executive Order on AI
The US Department of Commerce announced several actions to ensure the AI Executive Order is implemented, including four NIST draft publications on identifying, and mitigating risks associated with generative AI, a program for AI evaluation, and a request for comment on AI's impact on patentability.
The UK government will fund AI training for small and medium-sized businesses
The UK Government has announced it has 6.4M available to fund small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) looking to train their workforce on AI technologies. SMEs can apply until May 31st. Successful applicants will receive an up to 50% reimbursement from their AI training investment.
OpenAI has negotiated a licensing agreement with the Financial Times
The Financial Times has struck a deal with OpenAI. The latter will pay an undisclosed licensing fee to access the FT's archive for training and have ChatGPT provide summaries and links to FT articles. The deal has come through as OpenAI faces increasing legal issues due to data-scraping accusations.
Ceartas has secured $4.5M in seed funding for its AI-powered brand protection services
Ceartas uses AI to detect unauthorized distribution and deep fakes of customers' content across platforms, removing over 1 billion infringing items. With a 99% removal rate, it secures revenue and brand integrity. After raising a $4.5M seed round, Ceartas is expanding from creators to enterprises.
Lamini announces it raised $25 million to accelerate its Enterprise AI platform
Lamini raised $25M to help enterprises build 'Expert AI' deployments: LLMs leveraging proprietary data to unlock domain-specific capabilities. Lamini's solutions include memory tuning, faster time to market and scalability, secure and flexible deployments across environments, and higher initial ROI.
CoreWeave raised $1.1B to continue driving the AI cloud infrastructure of the future
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.
The GitHub Copilot Workspace is now in technical preview
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 upgraded Gemini to expand its global accessibility
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.