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Perplexity and Polymarket team up for enhanced search results
Prediction marketplace Polymarket has partnered with AI search engine Perplexity to provide users with AI-generated news summaries and search capabilities for events, while Perplexity gains a new API customer and expands its content offerings.
Aug 12, 2024
Cosine launched Genie, a specialist AI model in software engineering
Cosine has developed Genie, an AI software engineer that achieves state-of-the-art performance on the SWE-Bench benchmark by using a novel approach of training on data that reconstructs human developer reasoning, positioning it as a potential game-changer in automated software development.
Aug 12, 2024
This Week in AI: August 5–11
X got into trouble with regulators again; two mental health-focused startups raised funds; Amazon upgraded Titan, its image generation model; YouTube creators can now brainstorm with Gemini; Anysphere raised $60 million; DeepMind shared some research advances including a table tennis-playing robot.
Aug 12, 2024
AI-powered dictation assistant Silvia can speak Spanglish
A new AI assistant called Silvia, created by engineer Mansidak Singh, can understand and transcribe "Spanglish" and other language mixtures, addressing a common need among bilingual speakers and promising to expand to more language combinations in the future.
Aug 12, 2024
Mental health-focused AI startup clare&me secured €3.7M in funding
Berlin-based startup clare&me has raised €3.7 million in funding to develop its AI-powered mental health support offerings, including a self-help chatbot and a clinical intake assessment tool, utilizing an empathetic language model trained in various therapeutic techniques.
Aug 12, 2024
Bardeen secured $3M in a new strategic investment from Dropbox and HubSpot
AI-powered workflow automation startup Bardeen has secured $3 million in strategic investment from Dropbox and HubSpot, bringing its total funding to $22 million, as it aims to revolutionize business process automation by focusing on repeatability and customizability.
Aug 11, 2024
Mental health support app Feeling Great is launching with $8 million in seed funding
Psychiatrist Dr. David Burns' AI-powered therapy app 'Feeling Great' has launched with $8 million in seed funding, offering interactive courses and an empathetic chatbot based on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to make mental health support more accessible and affordable.
Aug 10, 2024
SoundHound AI has acquired Amelia AI to expand its customer service offerings
SoundHound AI has acquired Amelia for $80 million, combining their expertise in voice and conversational AI to become a leading provider of AI solutions across multiple industries, with expected combined revenue exceeding $150 million in 2025.
Aug 10, 2024
Google DeepMind researchers are working on a 'solidly amateur' table tennis-playing robot
Google DeepMind has developed a table tennis-playing robot that performs at an amateur human level, winning against beginner and some intermediate human opponents, marking a significant milestone in robotics while highlighting areas for impact outside the realm of table tennis.
Aug 10, 2024
Imperial College London and DeepMind are researching embodied agents that learn more efficiently
Researchers from Imperial College London and Google DeepMind have developed DAAG, a novel AI framework that combines language and vision models to enhance embodied agents' learning efficiency and adaptability, addressing the challenge of limited training data in physical environments.
Aug 10, 2024
Anysphere, the startup behind Cursor, raised a $60M Series A
Anysphere, the startup behind AI coding assistant Cursor, has secured $60 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital, reaching a $400 million valuation as it competes in the growing market of AI-powered coding tools.
Aug 9, 2024
The CMA's inquiry into Anthropic and Amazon evolved into a Phase 1 investigation
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority is investigating Amazon's $4 billion investment in Anthropic and their cloud partnership, as part of a broader scrutiny of AI industry collaborations, to determine if it constitutes a merger situation requiring further investigation.
Aug 9, 2024