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.
WekaIO (WEKA) has reached unicorn status after it closed an oversubscribed two-part $140 million Series E led by Valor Equity Partners, an existing investor, and supported solely by other returning investors. The Series E brought WEKA's post-money valuation to $1.6 billion.
Anthropic has launched its AI assistant Claude across Europe. Starting May 14, individuals and organizations can access Claude at claude.ai, on the iOS app, or via a Claude Team Plan. Additionally, the company made a series of significant updates to its Usage Policy.
Red Hat recently launched Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) and Podman AI Lab. The former is a platform for developing, testing, and deploying generative AI models, while the latter enables developers to build, test, and run containerized AI-powered applications in Podman Desktop.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs recently introduced AlphaFold 3, a model capable of predicting the structure and interactions of all biomolecules. DeepMind also launched AlphaFold Server, a free platform for non-commercial research that leverages AlphaFold 3's potential.
TikTok recently announced the integration of the Content Credentials technology to attach metadata to TikTok AI-generated content (AIGC) and instantly detect and label AIGC from external sources. Additionally, TikTok will launch literacy campaigns on content labeling and harmful AIGC-related topics.
Speculation has arisen about Mistral AI's most recent fundraising effort. Reportedly, the company expects to secure up to $600 million at a $6 billion valuation. Most reports confirm that DST and existing investors General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners are interested in participating.
Wayve successfully raised a $1.05 billion Series C led by SoftBank and backed by NVIDIA and Microsoft, allowing Wayve to leverage Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA Drive Orin, and NVIDIA Thor. Wayve is planning to launch its first product featuring the L2+ AI Drive Assist System shortly.
Stability AI launched Stable Artisan, a chatbot hosted in the Stable Diffusion Discord Server that leverages Stability AI's models to generate images and video from reference and to perform AI-powered editing on generated and reference pictures.
Triomics has raised $15 million from a selection of Silicon Valley investors to refine its fine-tuned language models and develop additional software. Triomics models can efficiently match patients with clinical trials and biomarker-driven treatments and extract structured data from health records.