EU Parliament and Council representatives recently reached a provisional agreement on the AI Act, a legally binding document intended to mitigate risks inherent to AI systems in vulnerable areas such as healthcare, education, and banking.
The latest MLflow release (2.9.0) introduces several major features and improvements, including the MLflow AI Gateway deprecation and the overhaul of The MLflow tracking docs.
Stability AI announced today the introduction of its three-tiered membership system that ensures access to generative AI remains open and available to everybody. The Stability AI membership simplifies model deployment and standardizes commercial rights across a diverse pool of customers.
The Munich-based startup Floy recently closed a 5.4M EUR seed round to enhance the diagnostic capabilities of radiologists with AI. Floy gives technicians a chance to refine their diagnosis without starting over. The startup offers its solution as a pay-per-use service for patients.
Google launched Gemini, its family of natively multimodal models. Gemini's capabilities for sophisticated multimodal reasoning are admirable; from excelling at competitive programming to detecting patterns in image sequences, it seems there is little that Gemini cannot do.
DeepMind and Google researchers made a groundbreaking discovery of 2.2M new inorganic crystals with the help of GNoME, with 736 of these being experimentally realized. Researchers are also looking into creating an autonomous laboratory to automate and expedite the synthesis of new materials.
PhysicsX is a UK-based startup that focuses on building AI and simulation technologies that address the needs of breakthrough engineering in advanced industries. The company is announcing the closing of its Series A funding round, which raised $32 million.
Together AI recently raised $102.5 million in a Series A round led by Kleiner Perkins. According to the company's announcement, the capital will be put into accelerating Together AI's goal of "creating the fastest cloud platform for generative AI applications."
Italian startup Aptus.AI recently announced the conclusion of its pre-Series A round, in which the company raised 3 million euros. Aptus.AI's product is the Daitomic platform, a RegTech platform that generates machine-readable versions of regulation documents.
Artisan, an AI startup focused on creating human-like digital workers known as Artisans, recently announced it raised $2.3 million in pre-seed funding. The startup looks to build "out-of-the-box AI digital workers that integrate seamlessly with human teams."
Microsoft's 2023 Ignite conference was packed with announcements heavily focused on AI integration at all levels of the company's offerings. Here, we present a selection of announcements concerning hardware for HPC and AI workloads, data science, and generative AI for sales and cybersecurity teams.
Claude 2.1 is now available over API in Anthropic's Console. The model is also powering the claude.ai chat experience. Alongside Claude's newest features, Anthropic also announced a cost-efficiency-increasing price adjustment across its models.