Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a pre-seed startup incubator-of-sorts based in Seattle, Washington that bills itself as “an enterprise AI startup studio … for founders, by founders” has secured $11 million for its fifth fund, with a focus on empowering the next generation of AI founders.
The funding round was led by sibling firm, the mighty Seattle giant Madrona Venture Group, and saw…
Marvel Studios has been a global entertainment juggernaut for the last 15 years, turning beloved but sometimes obscure comic book franchises into massive successes in film and TV.
But its latest TV series, Secret Invasion, debuting on the Disney+ streaming service and…
The EU AI Act is near. US AI regulation is coming. Here’s what you need to know | The AI Beat
June 21, 2023
Six months after ChatGPT became an overnight success, The U.S. and the EU are racing to develop rules and draft laws to address both the benefits and risks of generative AI.
These days, the news on AI regulation efforts is piling up so fast that it’s hard to keep track.
Cloud storage provider Dropbox today unveiled a suite of AI-powered products designed to ease knowledge work. The company’s latest offerings, Dropbox Dash and Dropbox AI, aim to boost productivity and streamline workflows, delivering users a more personalized work experience.
According to the company, these products are just the beginning of a series of personalized AI experiences Dropbox…
Every cybersecurity vendor has a different vision of how generative AI will serve its customers, yet they all share a common direction. Generative AI brings a new focus on data accuracy, precision and real-time insights. DevOps, product engineering and product management are…
IBM and Adobe are joining forces to enhance content supply chains using AI technology. IBM announced that it will expand its existing collaboration with Adobe to leverage Adobe Sensei GenAI services and Adobe Firefly, a suite of creative generative AI models (currently in…
Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool
June 20, 2023
Adobe’s stock soared after a strong earnings report last week — where executives touted the success of its “commercially safe” generative AI image generation platform Adobe Firefly. They say Firefly was trained on hundreds of millions of licensed images in the company’s royalty-free Adobe Stock offering, as well as on “openly licensed content and other public domain content without…
Galileo, a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup, announced today the launch of Galileo LLM Studio, a platform to diagnose and fix issues with large language models. The platform aims to help companies deploy natural language processing models into production…
Generative AI is the most transformative trend this year and growing at a faster pace than any AI technologies that have come before it, which has sparked a genuine industry-spanning uproar.
This makes right now a critical time for candid discussions about the strengths and…
Now hear this: Voice cloning AI startup ElevenLabs nabs $19M from a16z and other heavy hitters
June 20, 2023
ElevenLabs, a year-old AI startup from former Google and Palantir employees that is focused on creating new text-to-speech and voice cloning tools, has raised $19 million in a series A round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), former Github CEO Nat Friedman and former Apple AI leader Daniel Gross, with additional participation from Credo Ventures, Concept Ventures and an array of strategic angel…
