Freeplay has made its public beta generally available. The suite of collaborative, enterprise-ready tools for building, testing, and optimizing LLM-powered products is planned as a platform for teams to level access to creating LLM-powered products for developers and non-developers alike.
Credal, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is working on a platform that creates co-pilots that help companies connect private data with cloud- or on-premises-hosted LLMs. Credal features strong security and compliance controls that include participation in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
Google and Amazon have launched AI-powered image generation tools for advertisers to create high-quality product images that can help them drive more successful advertising campaigns.
Skylum will upgrade its award-winning photo editing software, Luminar Neo, with three generative AI technologies. These will enable users to remove unwanted items from compositions, expand the boundaries of their pictures, and replace existing objects using prompt-responsive generation.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs published a progress update on AlphaFold, the model capable of predicting protein structures from amino acid chains. AlphaFold is now capable of predicting several structures beyond proteins and medically relevant interactions such as antibody binding.
Treeverse has announced the general availability of lakeFS 1.0. Notably, the update guarantees forward and backward compatibility with all lakeFS versions, preserving compatibility with technologies such as Azure, Databricks, and Apache Iceberg.
German startup ZenML has just announced that it secured an additional $3.7 million in funding as an extension of its seed round. ZenML's core product is an MLOps solution that offers end-to-end coverage of the ML lifecycle. The tool will soon be available as a managed service.
Oxolo recently raised 13M EUR in a Series A round led by DN Capital for their AI-powered video generation platform. Their novel approach lets users automatically create a product video and accompanying text script with the click of a button.
Twelve Labs revealed the culmination of their research into video-to-text: the foundation model Pegasus-1 and its accompanying APIs. Unlike competing strategies, Twelve Labs developed a truly multimodal approach that incorporates visual, auditory, and text information into the dataset.
French VC firm Breega announced the launch of its new "Europe Seed III" fund devoted to supporting promising early-stage European startups. The firm plans to use a third of the fund to invest in UK-based startups and to fund around 30 startups.
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Aindo, a startup specializing in generating synthetic tabular and relational data using neural generative models, raised 6M EUR in a Series A funding round. Aindo plans to grow its team to continue developing synthetic data solutions for the healthcare, financial, and infrastructure sectors.