xAI, Elon Musk's AI startup and the company behind X's chatbot Grok, has raised an additional $6B following its $6B Series B fundraiser this May. As part of the negotiations, investors who contributed to fund xAI and Musk's Twitter acquisition had access to up to 25% of xAI's shares.
Microsoft has launched the Copilot Vision preview for a small set of US-based Pro subscribers. Copilot Vision is an AI-powered feature that provides insights based on the contents of Microsoft Edge screens while prioritizing user privacy and control.
Gleamer announced an €18 million investment in OncoView, its latest project. OncoView will support radiologists in interpreting oncology patients' CT scans. As a France 2030 laureate, OncoView will be partly funded by the French government.
PeriWatch, an AI system that tracks mothers' and babies' vital signs in real-time to detect possible anomalies shortly before and after childbirth, has helped the Area 25 hospital in Malawi reduce its stillbirth and neonatal death rate by 82%.
Google DeepMind's Genie 2 is an advanced AI world model that can generate interactive 3D environments from a single image, with capabilities for simulating virtual worlds, object interactions, and character animations. Genie 2 is primarily intended to create training environments for AI agents.
This Tuesday at re:Invent 2024, AWS announced it will expand Amazon Q Developer's capabilities. The AI-powered assistant can now assist developers in generating documentation and automating code reviews and unit test creation. The company also announced a new GitLab integration.
World Labs, led by Fei-Fei Li, unveiled an AI system capable of generating interactive 3D scenes from 2D images. The preview demonstrates the AI system's impressive spatial simulation capabilities, which can recreate physics-consistent environments with interactive elements.
Nebius raised $700 million in private placement financing from investors including Accel and NVIDIA, positioning itself to expand its AI infrastructure services and achieve an annual recurring revenue of $750 million to $1 billion by the end of 2025.
AWS has launched Trainium2 EC2 instances, offering a groundbreaking 30-40% improvement in price performance for AI model training. UltraServers connect 64 chips to deliver unprecedented computational power for large language and foundation models.
This Tuesday at re:Invent 2024, AWS unveiled two new features (in preview) for Amazon Bedrock: Model Distillation and multi-agent collaboration. Both features respond to the increasing demand for faster but accurate models, and more complex AI-powered workflows.
At re:Invent 2024, Amazon announced Automated Reasoning checks, a new feature allowing users to implement AI safety policies that use logic-based algorithmic verifications to prevent hallucinations in generative AI applications. The preview is available in the AWS US West (Oregon) region.
At re:Invent 2024, Amazon launched the Nova AI model family with multimodal capabilities, offering a range of models from text-only to multimodal and generative AI solutions, with features like fine-tuning and model distillation, aimed at enterprise use and AI-powered advertising.