Tel Aviv, Israel-based large language model (LLM) leader AI21 Labs confirmed with VentureBeat that it has has closed $155 million in series C funding to accelerate the growth of its text-based generative AI services for enterprises. The company is now valued at $1.4 billion.
Investors in the round include Walden Catalyst, Pitango, SCB10X, b2venture, Samsung Next and Amnon Shashua with…
Niantic rolls out GenAI tools for 8th Wall developers
August 31, 2023
Niantic announced this week that it is introducing new generative AI developer tools to its 8th Wall platform. More specifically, it’s adding GenAI modules to 8th Wall that make it easier for developers to streamline their processes. Devs can use these tools to incorporate…
Confirm raises $6.2 million to bring generative AI and network analysis to performance reviews
August 31, 2023
Does anybody like hearing the phrase, “It’s performance review season, again”?
In most organizations where this author has ever worked (and he has worked at many), neither managers nor employees particularly relished the process of giving and receiving performance…
Ready Player Me, a provider of cross-platform avatar platforms, is introducing Copilot, a new tool fueled by OpenAI’s GPT-4 and OpenCopilot.
Designed to assist developers in seamlessly integrating the avatar platform into their applications and games, Copilot leverages machine learning and extensive training on technical documentation and support tickets.
The advent of AI tools like GitHub…
Database vendor Couchbase today announced the launch of Capella IQ, a new AI-powered tool aimed at enhancing developer productivity when building applications on the Couchbase Capella database-as-a-service (DBaaS) cloud platform.
Couchbase was originally developed as an…
Arize AI wants to improve enterprise LLMs with ‘Prompt Playground,’ new data analysis tools
August 31, 2023
We all know enterprises are racing at varying speeds to analyze and reap the benefits of generative AI — ideally in a smart, secure and cost-effective way. Survey after survey over the last year has shown this to be true.
But once an organization identifies a large…
Back in May, IBM doubled down on its AI efforts with the announcement at the company’s annual Think conference of its new Watsonx product platform, which provides a foundational model library that can be used to fine-tune pretrained models for enterprise application development.
Now, the company is serving up what it hopes is a generative AI ace: For the first time, it is offering AI-generated…
Typeface teams with GrowthLoop and Google Cloud to launch unified ‘GenAI Marketing Solution’
August 31, 2023
AI company Typeface has partnered with marketing player GrowthLoop and Google Cloud with the goal of transforming marketing for organizations of all sizes. The companies today announced a unified “GenAI Marketing Solution” that brings together the best of their…
Call of Duty has long had problems with toxic chat on its voice channels, and Activision announced it is doing something about in a collaboration with Modulate.
Activision said it considered this to be a significant step forward in its ongoing battle against toxic and…
Sprig, a five-year-old startup focused on creating smart, contextually aware in-app surveys for enterprises, earned a big vote of confidence last year, securing $30 million in funding from prominent venture capital firms including a16z and Accel.
Today, the company is announcing where some of those funds went: A new feature Sprig calls AI Analysis for Surveys, which, as the name suggests, uses…
