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This Week in AI: August 19–25
Ideogram-2 and Meshy-4 launch; Reliant AI launches AI-powered analytics for the life sciences; Logically acquired Insikt AI; SleekFlow secured $7M in funding: Dropbox acquired Reclaim.ai; BeyondMath secured $8.5 million for the development of its digital wind tunnel; and much more.
Aug 26, 2024
The Weeknd teased an upcoming concert live stream using AI-generated visuals
The Weeknd has released an AI-generated concert teaser trailer, directed by visual artist YZA Voku and created using multiple AI tools, showcasing the artist's embrace of generative AI technology in music promotion despite ongoing controversies surrounding AI's use of copyrighted material.
Aug 25, 2024
Meshy has launched Meshy-4, a model with improved 3D-generation capabilities
Meshy has launched Meshy-4, a major update to their AI-powered 3D model generation platform. Meshy-4 features improved geometry, a new Text to 3D workflow, a retry feature, and model selection options, and aims to enhance the quality and usability of AI-generated 3D assets.
Aug 25, 2024
Meta and Spotify exposed their view on the detrimental effect of EU regulation on open-source AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek authored a joint statement urging the European Union to embrace open-source AI and simplify its regulatory landscape to avoid falling behind in AI innovation and competitiveness.
Aug 25, 2024
With its latest update, Redis aims to solidify its position as a vector database for AI use cases
Redis has unveiled a suite of AI-focused products, including Redis for AI, Redis Copilot, and enhanced vector database capabilities in Redis 8, aimed at simplifying and accelerating the development and deployment of GenAI applications.
Aug 25, 2024
Piramidal raised $6M to build the world's first human brainwaves foundation model
Piramidal, a healthcare AI startup, is developing a groundbreaking foundation model for EEG data that will unlock a series of use cases in medical settings, from assisting in diagnosing neurological conditions to supporting the discovery of biomarkers for drug and treatment development.
Aug 24, 2024
Harmonyze secured $2M to transform franchise operations with AI
AI startup Harmonyze has secured over $2 million in pre-seed funding to expand its AI-powered platform that automates and streamlines franchise operations, potentially transforming the $5 trillion global franchise market by increasing efficiency and profitability.
Aug 24, 2024
BeyondMath secured $8.5 million for the development of its digital wind tunnel
BeyondMath's digital wind tunnel uses machine learning to provide near real-time simulations of complex aerodynamics, significantly accelerating the engineering process and cutting costs. The company boasts F1 as an early adopter and recently raised an $8.5M seed round led by UP.Partners.
Aug 23, 2024
Dropbox has acquired the AI-powered calendar assistant Reclaim.ai
Reclaim.ai, an intelligent scheduling assistant that optimizes users' calendars by automatically managing time blocks for activities and facilitating smart scheduling of recurring meetings, announced its plans to continue developing its product after being acquired by Dropbox.
Aug 23, 2024
Opkey raised $47M to revolutionize ERP testing with AI
AI-powered software testing company Opkey has secured $47 million in funding to enhance and expand its technology that uses artificial intelligence to streamline and improve the risky process of updating crucial business software systems.
Aug 23, 2024
NVIDIA showcased its pruning and distillation techniques with Llama-3.1-Minitron 4B
NVIDIA researchers have developed a breakthrough technique combining structured weight pruning and knowledge distillation to create smaller, more efficient language models, which offer improved performance and significant compute savings while remaining competitive with larger models.
Aug 22, 2024
Ideogram 2.0 is the latest text-to-image model to boast its superior text rendering capability
Ideogram has launched Ideogram 2.0, a cutting-edge text-to-image AI model with superior capabilities in realistic image generation and typography, alongside new offerings including an iOS app, API access, and a searchable database of over 1 billion community-generated images.
Aug 22, 2024