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OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to make its latest large language models accessible in Google Cloud. The LLMs will be available through the Alphabet Inc.’s unit Model Garden service. It provides access to more than 200 neural networks from Google, its …
Nvidia debuts new AI reference architectures, development tools
Nvidia Corp. today debuted a set of technologies that will make it easier for customers to build data centers and robots using its chips. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang detailed the offerings at the company’s annual GTC Berlin event. The first addition …
Critical PHP vulnerabilities send organizations scrambling to secure their systems
The maintainers of the PHP programming language today released patches for two critical vulnerabilities that affect up to 70% of the world’s websites. Several cybersecurity agencies including the National Security Agency are urging organizations to shut down affected systems while they implement …
Arda Industries raises $232M to make production lines more adaptable
Arda Industries Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence software for factories, launched today with $232 million in funding. Accel, Altimeter, Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures led the investment. They were joined by XYZ Venture Capital, 8VC, SVAngel and Felicis. Arda is …
Otter.ai raises $320M in funding for its AI meeting assistant
Otter.ai Inc., the developer of a popular artificial intelligence meeting assistant, today announced that it has raised $320 million in funding. The capital came entirely from General Catalyst’s Customer Value Fund. The investment vehicle provides startups with financing for sales and marketing …
Salesforce to acquire marketing automation provider Braze for $5.66B
Salesforce Inc. today announced plans to acquire Braze Inc. for $5.66 billion in cash. The deal values the marketing software provider at $47.5 per share, which is about 58% higher than its last closing price. The steep premium is a reflection of …
Amazon introduces toolkit for running PyTorch workloads on AWS Trainium chips
Amazon.com Inc. today introduced TorchNeuron, an open-source toolkit that enables developers to run PyTorch workloads on its AWS Trainium chips. PyTorch is the industry’s most popular artificial intelligence development framework. Until now, running AI projects powered by the tool on Trainium-based Amazon …
AI startup doubleAI debuts Maxwell ‘code execution model’
Startup doubleAI today debuted Maxwell, a model that can optimize software code and generate mathematical proofs. Tel Aviv-based doubleAI, officially AA-I Technologies Ltd., is led by Chief Executive Officer Amnon Shashua, who earlier co-founded auto chip supplier Mobileye Global Inc. The company …
Elon Musk, Anthropic pledge to give away billions of dollars in shares
SpaceX Corp. Chief Executive Elon Musk today pledged to gift a single share of the spaceflight company to every child in America. “This will be the first of many,” Musk wrote in the brief X post that revealed the move today. The …
Microsoft reveals cutting-edge MAI-Base-2 model with 2T parameters
Microsoft Corp. has developed a new large language model that it says is significantly more efficient than leading open-source alternatives. The company’s artificial intelligence research group detailed the algorithm on Thursday. MAI-Base-2 is not a full-fledged LLM but rather a base model, …