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Ema raises $36M to build universal AI employees for enterprises

San Francisco-based Ema, the AI agent startup founded by former Google and Okta employees, today announced it is raising an additional $36 million as part of a Series A fundraising round. The investment takes the company’s total raise to $61 million and was led by Accel and Section 32. The company says it’ll use the cash to further develop its proprietary tech allowing enterprises to…
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Google’s tiny AI model ‘Gemma 2 2B’ challenges tech giants in surprising upset

Google has just unveiled Gemma 2 2B, a compact yet powerful artificial intelligence model that rivals industry leaders despite its significantly smaller size. The new language model, containing just 2.6 billion parameters, demonstrates performance on par with or surpassing much larger counterparts, including OpenAI GPT-3.5 and Mistral AI’s Mixtral 8x7B. Announced on Google’s Developer Blog…
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You can now turn still images into AI videos with Runway Gen-3 Alpha

Despite facing controversy — as many AI model providers have lately — over its data scraping and training practices, the New York City-based startup Runway Gen-3 is plowing ahead with new marquee features for its realistic generative AI video platform. Today, the company announced on its X account and its Discord server that Gen-3 Alpha, the new AI video model it unveiled back in mid June 2024…
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AI wars heat up: OpenAI’s SearchGPT takes on Google’s search dominance

In a surprising announcement today, OpenAI has unveiled SearchGPT, a prototype AI-powered search engine that directly challenges Google’s dominance in the online search market. This bold move signals a significant escalation in the AI search wars and could reshape how users find and interact with information on the web.   We’re testing SearchGPT, a temporary prototype of new AI search…
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