LanceDB is working on a database built with the open-source Lance columnar database format that can handle the demands of multimodal data type storage and retrieval. The company, which already boasts some industry-leading customers, secured $11 million in funding to accelerate product development.
Snowflake has invested in Metaplane, the leading data observability platform, strengthening their premier partnership and ensuring data quality remains a critical focus as Snowflake expands its Data Cloud capabilities for enabling AI applications across the enterprise.
Artisan AI raised $7.3 million to build fully autonomous AI employees and a unified software platform to replace the enterprise SaaS stack. With ambitious goals like achieving Level 5 autonomy where AI can outperform humans, Artisan AI aims to redefine human-AI collaboration in the enterprise.
Ampere and Qualcomm have partnered to offer a powerful AI inferencing server solution that combines Ampere's efficient Arm-based CPUs with Qualcomm's Cloud AI 100 Ultra AI chips, delivering a best-of-breed platform for running large AI models at scale while maximizing performance and efficiency.
Voxel51, the company behind the open-source computer vision tool FiftyOne, has raised $30 million to accelerate its mission of making visual AI a reality. The funding will let Voxel51 scale its team, invest in its open-source community, drive its research, and enhance its products.
Reddit and OpenAI have announced a partnership that will allow OpenAI to integrate Reddit's community content into its AI models like ChatGPT, while also allowing Reddit to leverage OpenAI's AI capabilities to introduce new AI-powered features for its platform and users.
Sony Music Group has prohibited unauthorized use of its content for training or developing AI systems. While SMG supports the responsible artist-led use of AI as a creative tool, the company is committed to safeguarding human artistry and intellectual property rights in the age of AI.
OpenAI recently announced several new data analysis features in GPT-4o: direct uploads from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, interactive charts in a new expandable view, and downloadable custom charts. They will be available for Plus, Team, and Enterprise users starting May 16.
Pythagora AI has raised $4M in seed funding to accelerate the research and development of its AI-powered software development tool which can assist developers by building apps from scratch from ordinary language conversations.
Silo AI has released Viking, a family of open-source LLMs optimized for Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Swedish languages without compromising English language and coding performance.
OpenAI's natively multimodal GPT-4o accepts text, audio, image, and video as input and replies with text, audio, and image combinations. In parallel, OpenAI announced that GPT-4o will be available for free and paid users and other improvements to the ChatGPT experience.
Malted AI raised £6 million in a seed funding round led by Hoxton Ventures, and backed by Creator Fund and angel investors. The startup is developing a knowledge distillation platform to create of domain-specific small language models that can accurately and cost-efficiently tackle a single task.