Cerebras Systems, the California-based company that has built a “brain-scale” chip to power AI models with 120 trillion parameters, said today it has raised $250 million funding at a valuation of over $4 billion. Cerebras claims its technology significantly accelerates the time involved in today’s AI work processes at a fraction of the power and space. It also claims its innovations will…
Data Society, a Washington-headquartered organization providing data science training programs and AI/ML solutions to corporations and government agencies, has announced the launch of meldR, a learning experience and communication platform (LXCP).
Targeted at the health care…
Kodiak Robotics to expand autonomous trucking with $125M
November 10, 2021
Kodiak Robotics, a startup developing self-driving truck technologies, today announced that it raised $125 million in an oversubscribed series B round for a total of $165 million to date. The tranche — which includes investments from SIP Global Partners, Lightspeed Venture…
San Francisco-headquartered Standard AI, a startup providing autonomous checkout technology for the retail industry, today announced it has completed the acquisition and hiring of the London-based computer vision startup ThirdEye Labs. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Founded in 2017, Standard enables retailers to set up a cashier-free checkout experience. The company has developed a…
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Inworld AI, a company that aims to develop a platform that enables users to create AI-driven virtual characters which can be used to populate virtual…
AI-driven search engine You.com takes on Google with $20M
November 9, 2021
You.com, which bills itself as the world’s first open search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff with participation from Breyer Capital, Sound Ventures, Day One Ventures, and others. The…
Report: 40% of execs say increasing business process efficiency is top benefit of AI
November 9, 2021
According to a new report from CognitiveScale, 40% of respondents identified increasing business process efficiency as the top benefit to gain from deploying AI, while another 36% of respondents identified improving customer service as the top benefit.
The adoption of artificial intelligence is growing worldwide. The need to boost customer service, employee efficiency, and acceleration of…
Synthesis AI offers API for virtual humans
November 9, 2021
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Synthesis AI, a synthetic data company, has released HumanAPI, a new tool for generating virtual humans from synthetic data. Virtual humans are…
Nvidia today launched Modulus, a framework for developing “physics-grounded” machine learning models in industries that require a high level of physical accuracy. Modulus trains AI systems to use the laws of physics to model the behavior of systems in a range of fields…
Nvidia unveils AI Omniverse Avatars for the virtual world
November 9, 2021
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Nvidia today unveiled Omniverse Avatar, a platform for generating immersive AI-driven avatars. The platform enables users to leverage speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding, and simulation to create avatars that recognize speech and communicate with human users…
