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Altrove secured €3.7M to accelerate essential materials' discovery and production
Altrove, a startup founded in 2024, has raised €3.7 million to develop sustainable alternatives to rare earth elements using AI-driven material recipe optimization and characterization, differentiating itself by focusing on creating and testing materials rather than just predicting them.
Jul 5, 2024
Meta showcased its research into 3D asset generation
Meta has developed a fast, high-quality 3D asset generation pipeline called Meta 3D Gen, combining text-to-3D mesh and texture generation models, which outperforms alternatives and is likely intended to support content creation for Meta's virtual reality platform.
Jul 4, 2024
Unethical scraping accusations against Perplexity AI keep piling up
Perplexity AI has been facing accusations of plagiarism and unethical web crawling practices, including ignoring the Robots Exclusion Protocol, as investigations reveal issues with its content sourcing and summarization methods.
Jul 4, 2024
Figma pauses the 'Make Design' feature just a week after its launch
Figma's AI-powered 'Make Designs' feature, launched at their Config Conference, was temporarily disabled after generating layouts resembling Apple's Weather app, prompting concerns about its training data and output quality.
Jul 4, 2024
Phaidra, whose technology keeps data centers power-efficient, raised $12M in new funding
Phaidra, a company founded by former DeepMind and Trane Technologies experts, has developed an AI-based autonomous control system that uses reinforcement learning to improve energy efficiency in data centers, addressing the growing concern over AI's environmental impact.
Jul 3, 2024
Anthropic launches an initiative to fund third-party AI evaluations
Anthropic has launched an initiative to fund third-party evaluations of advanced AI models, focusing on safety assessments, capability metrics, and evaluation infrastructure to enhance transparency and safety across the AI industry.
Jul 3, 2024
Meta modifies its media labeling strategy after real photos were tagged as 'Made with AI'
Meta has renamed its "Made with AI" label to "AI Info" after facing issues where labeled real photos gave the impression that they were AI-generated. The new AI Info label encourages users to click for additional context so users can receive accurate information about AI usage in the labeled images.
Jul 3, 2024
Vaire Computing has secured $4.5M to pioneer reversible computing
Vaire Computing, a startup founded by Rodolfo Rosini and Hannah Earley, has raised $4 million to develop reversible computing technology, which aims to drastically reduce energy consumption and heat generation in computer processors by allowing computations to run in both directions.
Jul 3, 2024
The European Commission found Meta's subscription model non-compliant with the DMA
The European Commission has deemed Meta's "pay or consent" model non-compliant with the Digital Markets Act. Meta could be forced to introduce an equivalent alternative to its targeted ads-based services or risk paying a hefty penalty.
Jul 2, 2024
This Week in AI: June 24–30
Adept and Stability AI announced leadership changes; OpenAI bought the collaboration platform Multi; Synthesia upgraded its platform; the RIAA is suing Suno and Udio; Google released Gemma 2; and much more.
Jul 1, 2024
Adept announced it will undergo substantial restructuring and refocus its business strategy
Adept, an AI company focused on developing autonomous agents for software-based workflows, announced a strategic shift to focus solely on agentic AI solutions, and a change in leadership that will drive the company forward as its product-based vision helps businesses solve real-life problems.
Jul 1, 2024
The LLM Compiler is Meta's most recent hit
Meta's new LLM Compiler, an open-source AI model suite, revolutionizes code optimization and compiler design by demonstrating impressive capabilities in understanding and manipulating complex code structures, potentially transforming software development practices.
Jul 1, 2024