Voxel51, the company behind the open-source computer vision tool FiftyOne, has raised $30 million to accelerate its mission of making visual AI a reality. The funding will let Voxel51 scale its team, invest in its open-source community, drive its research, and enhance its products.
Reddit and OpenAI have announced a partnership that will allow OpenAI to integrate Reddit's community content into its AI models like ChatGPT, while also allowing Reddit to leverage OpenAI's AI capabilities to introduce new AI-powered features for its platform and users.
Sony Music Group has prohibited unauthorized use of its content for training or developing AI systems. While SMG supports the responsible artist-led use of AI as a creative tool, the company is committed to safeguarding human artistry and intellectual property rights in the age of AI.
OpenAI recently announced several new data analysis features in GPT-4o: direct uploads from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, interactive charts in a new expandable view, and downloadable custom charts. They will be available for Plus, Team, and Enterprise users starting May 16.
Pythagora AI has raised $4M in seed funding to accelerate the research and development of its AI-powered software development tool which can assist developers by building apps from scratch from ordinary language conversations.
Silo AI has released Viking, a family of open-source LLMs optimized for Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Swedish languages without compromising English language and coding performance.
OpenAI's natively multimodal GPT-4o accepts text, audio, image, and video as input and replies with text, audio, and image combinations. In parallel, OpenAI announced that GPT-4o will be available for free and paid users and other improvements to the ChatGPT experience.
Malted AI raised £6 million in a seed funding round led by Hoxton Ventures, and backed by Creator Fund and angel investors. The startup is developing a knowledge distillation platform to create of domain-specific small language models that can accurately and cost-efficiently tackle a single task.
WekaIO (WEKA) has reached unicorn status after it closed an oversubscribed two-part $140 million Series E led by Valor Equity Partners, an existing investor, and supported solely by other returning investors. The Series E brought WEKA's post-money valuation to $1.6 billion.
Anthropic has launched its AI assistant Claude across Europe. Starting May 14, individuals and organizations can access Claude at claude.ai, on the iOS app, or via a Claude Team Plan. Additionally, the company made a series of significant updates to its Usage Policy.
Red Hat recently launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) and Podman AI Lab. The former is a platform for developing, testing, and deploying generative AI models, while the latter enables developers to build, test, and run containerized AI-powered applications in Podman Desktop.