Snowflake launches Cortex Analyst, a service enabling natural language queries for structured data. Built on Meta and Mistral models, it offers high text-to-SQL accuracy, security features, and easy integration. Already used by Bayer, it aims to democratize data analytics for business users.
xAI launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini on 𝕏. Grok-2 performed well on benchmarks, competing with top models. Notably, these models can now integrate real-time 𝕏 data, raising concerns about misinformation generation.
MIT researchers have launched the AI Risk Repository, a comprehensive database of over 700 unique AI-related risks, designed to help organizations, policymakers, and researchers better understand, assess, and mitigate the evolving challenges in artificial intelligence deployment and development.
EliseAI, a leading conversational AI platform for the housing industry, has raised $75 million in Series D funding, achieving unicorn status with a valuation of over $1 billion, as it continues to revolutionize property management and expands into healthcare automation.
Clearly, a London-based AI-powered climate intelligence platform, has raised $4.3 million in seed funding to enhance its technology that provides real-time, trip-level emission insights for fleet operators, aiming to revolutionize supply chain decarbonization efforts globally.
Profound, a new startup, has launched a platform to help brands optimize their presence in AI-powered search results, securing $3.5 million in seed funding to develop this technology that tracks and analyzes how companies appear in AI chatbot responses.
Encord, a leading multimodal AI data development platform, has secured $30 million in Series B funding to enhance its product offerings and continue revolutionizing how AI teams manage, curate, and leverage high-quality data for model development.
Sakana AI has developed "The AI Scientist," a groundbreaking system that aims to automate the scientific research process in machine learning, from idea generation to paper writing and peer review, thus exploring how AI can impact the scientific progress.
Google has announced Gemini as the default assistant for Pixel 9 devices, introduced Gemini Live for voice conversations, expanded Gemini's integration across Android devices, and unveiled new accessibility features, marking a shift towards AI-powered capabilities across its product ecosystem.
Ragie, a new AI company founded by industry veterans, has launched a RAG-as-a-Service platform with $5.5M in funding, offering developers a streamlined solution for building AI applications connected to their data sources.
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.
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.