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AI-powered writing assistant Writer nabs $21M

Writer, which bills itself as an AI writing assistant for marketing teams, today announced that it raised $21 million. (Writer’s total now stands at $25 million.) Insight Partners led the series A round with participation from Gradient Ventures, which Writer CEO May Habib says will be put toward customer acquisition initiatives and headcount growth. Writer’s growth comes as marketers…
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OpenAI rival Cohere launches language model API

Cohere, a startup creating large language models to rival those from OpenAI and AI2Labs, today announced the general availability of its commercial platform for app and service development. Through an API, customers can access models fine-tuned for a range of natural language applications, in some cases at a fraction of the cost of rival offerings. The pandemic has accelerated the world’s…
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AI tool offers cure for scattered medical data

A patient in the ER, ICU, and other care environments is often connected to monitoring equipment such as cardiac monitors or ventilators, which capture a range of medical data points: heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation levels, body temperature, and more. Studying these numbers over time can yield vital information about the body’s physiological patterns indicating imminent…
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AI tech drives transformation of F1 racing

A short history of data in F1 Until the 1980s, cars were all mechanical. Computers were too large and slow to be useful on race cars, so the driver was the only source of “data” for the racing engineer. As amazing as drivers are at “feeling” the car, it’s tough for any driver to recall objective measurements about how the car performed in a session when they are busy focusing on…
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