Seedrs and Microsoft will hold a four-week AI accelerator program for startups at the seed to Series A funding levels. The program offers specialized webinars, insights, and resources. Six finalists will be selected to pitch their businesses to leading VCs in the UK at Microsoft’s Reactor Space.
GovDash recently completed a successful $10 million Series A funding round led by Northzone, with the participation of existing investor Y Combinator. The company plans to invest the funding into expanding its system of records platform for government contractors.
Adobe doesn't want to get caught unprepared in the AI-powered video generation and editing race. The company recently shared its plans to launch the Firefly Video Model, add AI-powered features to Premiere Pro, and integrate third-party video generation solutions to power said tools.
OpenAI is expanding its global presence by setting up a new Tokyo-based office. To kickstart this new stage, the company is granting access for local Japanese businesses to a custom Japanese-optimized GPT-4 version.
After recently announcing the official retirement of its hydraulic humanoid robot Atlas, Boston Dynamics has announced a fully electric, new-generation Atlas. Initial real-world Atlas testing will happen in partnership with Hyundai before the robot is available to a select group of early customers.
Meta has released the first two models of the Meta Llama 3 family: an 8B and a 70B model in pre-trained and instruction fine-tuned variants. The company claims this is the first step in an ambitious plan spanning everything from multilingualism and multimodality to edge computing and smart devices.
Stable Diffusion 3 and Stable Diffusion 3 Turbo are now available on the Stability AI Developer Platform API. An enterprise-grade API solution featuring these models is also available as part of Fireworks AI's distributed inference service.
Google Cloud Next '24 took place last week and featured an opening keynote delivered by CEO Thomas Kurian. The keynote was brimming with announcements covering everything from its AI Hypercomputer to the newly Gemini-infused Workspace, as Google revamped every layer in its AI stack.
PVML launched after completing a successful seed funding round; AMD and Intel announced edge-optimized devices; Intel took a shot at NVIDIA's H100 with the Gaudi 3 announcement; The next generation of Llama models will be available very soon; Forbes released its sixth annual AI 50; and more.
xAI recently announced the preview availability of Grok-1.5V, its first multimodal foundation model. Grok-1.5V features competitive performance in visual information processing tasks and is the first model diving into real-world spatial understanding.
Forbes has released its sixth annual AI 50 list. Carefully curated from a pool of around 1,900 submissions, the list recognizes the top contenders in what has become a very competitive industry.
Cohere's newest foundation model is Rerank 3, which specializes in retrieval-augmented generation capabilities. Rerank 3 boasts a 4K context length window, multi-aspect and semi-structured data search, multilanguage support, improved latency, and a lower cost.