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After Davos 2024: From AI hype to reality

January 29, 2024
AI was a major theme at Davos 2024. As reported by Fortune, more than two dozen sessions at the event focused directly on AI, covering everything from AI in education to AI regulation. A who’s who of AI was in attendance, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, AI pioneer Andrew Ng, Meta chief AI scientist Yann LeCun, Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and many others. Whereas…
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AWS rival Wasabi acquires Curio AI to add intelligence to its unlimited cloud storage offering

January 24, 2024
Boston-based Wasabi Technologies, a data storage startup taking on the likes of AWS, GCP and other cloud vendors, today announced it has acquired machine learning platform Curio AI from GrayMeta, the known provider of metadata solutions based in California. While the companies did not disclose the exact financial terms of the deal, Wasabi did note in a press release that the deal will help enable…
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Google Chrome adds new AI features to boost productivity and creativity

January 24, 2024
Google’s popular web browser, Chrome, is getting a makeover with the latest release of Chrome M121, which introduces three new generative AI features that aim to make browsing easier, more efficient and more personalized. The new features, which are available as experimental options for Chrome users in the U.S. on Macs and Windows PCs, leverage Google’s advanced machine learning and AI…
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AI voice startup ElevenLabs lands $80M round, launches marketplace of cloned voices

January 22, 2024
Within just two years of its inception, ElevenLabs, the AI voice startup founded by former Google and Palantir employees, has hit the unicorn status. The company today announced it has raised $80 million in a series B round of funding, growing its valuation ten-fold to $1.1 billion. The investment has been co-led by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and…
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