Tokyo-based Sakana AI secures $100M+ in Series A funding led by NEA, Khosla Ventures, Lux Capital, and supported by NVIDIA. Sakana AI will also collaborate with NVIDIA to develop relevant AI technology for Japan and support the local AI community.
Anthropic has launched Claude for Enterprise, a new plan that boosts the capabilities of the known features Artifacts and Projects with a 500K token context window, enhanced security and administrative controls, GitHub integration, and the ability to upload proprietary information.
Root Signals, a Helsinki and Palo Alto-based startup, has secured $2.8M in funding to develop its platform that automates LLM evaluations using LLM-as-a-judge techniques, addressing challenges in LLM performance prediction and helping ensure safe, accurate outputs for various applications.
AI company You.com has secured $50 million in Series B funding to develop and expand its AI Productivity Engine which uses AI Agents to transform workflows across industries and offers collaborative features for teams and enterprises.
Volkswagen is launching its ChatGPT-integrated voice assistant in the US, starting with the 2025 Jetta and 2024 ID.4 models. The AI-powered system enhances conversational experience but requires a subscription, with some models including free trials.
Skillvue, a Milan-based startup founded in 2021, has raised $2.8 million in pre-seed funding to develop an AI-powered platform that supports HR departments in adopting skills-based approaches to recruitment and assessment, addressing the changing skillset requirements in the modern workforce.
IdentifAI, a Milan-based startup, has raised €2.2 million to develop technology that can reliably identify whether a given artifact was created using generative AI, to promote a fair and transparent ecosystem where anyone can distinguish AI-generated content from human-created content.
Codeium achieved unicorn status; Viggle AI closed a Series A; OpenAI is looking to raise $100+ billion; Aleph Alpha launched a family of models focused on transparency and compliance; Atlassian is integrating Rewatch into Loom; Inflection announced data portability and usage caps; and more.
Amazon has entered into a significant agreement with AI robotics company Covariant, licensing their robotic foundation models and acquiring key talent to enhance its warehouse automation capabilities and advance the state of AI-powered robotics.
LAION has released Re-LAION 5B, a revised version of their large-scale image-text dataset, thoroughly cleaned of known links to suspected illegal content through collaboration with child protection organizations, delivering on its commitment to remove illegal content from its datasets.
Google is implementing a multi-faceted approach to safeguard the upcoming U.S. elections by providing authoritative information, combating abuse, enhancing security for high-risk users, and increasing transparency around AI-generated content across its platforms.
Atlassian has acquired Rewatch, an AI-powered asynchronous video solution company, to integrate its features into Loom, enhancing video messaging capabilities with automated recording, transcription, and meeting assistance across various platforms.