AI & Robotics

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Among the 100 updates announced at Microsoft’s developer event Build this week, an area that stood out above the noise was artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, Microsoft’s growing push into higher-level services for applied AI and business scenarios. Microsoft has been gradually embedding business logic into…

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. OpenAI today launched the OpenAI Startup Fund, a $100 million fund to — in the words of OpenAI — “help AI companies have a profound, positive impact on the world.” The fund is managed by OpenAI, with investment from Microsoft and other partners, and OpenAI says that companies selected for it will get early access to…

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Sentieo, a financial and corporate research platform provider, today announced it has raised $20 million in a series B round led by Ten Coves Capital. Sentieo says it will use the funds to expand its market reach as it grows its workforce. Investors and corporations were already looking for opportunities to gain a…

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Fireflies, an AI voice assistant that joins videoconferencing meetings to take notes, today announced that it raised $14 million in series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Canaan Partners and angel backers. It plans to use the proceeds to expand its platform and acquire new customers, as well as to…