Read AI, a leader in AI-powered meeting summaries, today announced a $21 million Series A financing round led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from existing investor Madrona Venture Group. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s mission of building the future of work, where every interaction is enhanced by artificial intelligence.
Along with the funding, Read AI unveiled a new…
Cloudflare makes it simple to deploy AI apps with Hugging Face, launches Workers AI to public
April 3, 2024
Cloudflare is now letting more developers bring their AI applications from Hugging Face onto its platform. In addition, the company has made its serverless GPU-powered inference, known as Workers AI, generally available.
The Cloudflare-Hugging Face integration was announced…
Seattle-based OctoAI has a new offering called OctoStack, designed to help those in the enterprise deploy private generative AI models. Companies can use this “turn-key production platform” in a virtual private cloud or on-premises and will have access to highly…
Not content to disrupt merely text generation, imagery, and video with its various AI models, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is also getting into the last major form of legacy digital media: audio. Specifically, voice cloning.
The company today is announcing its newest AI model, “Voice Engine,” which it says has been in development since 2022 and currently powers OpenAI’s text-to-speech API and the…
As a 20-year veteran of writing code and as a CEO of a company that serves software developers, I had a reflexively skeptical reaction to early predictions that generative AI would eventually make most software development skills obsolete.
While I’m still somewhat…
MineOS, an enterprise data privacy and governance platform, announced this week the launch of a new AI Asset Discovery and Risk Assessment module designed to peer inside the “black box” of artificial intelligence and give companies the visibility they need to govern…
Insider threats are among the most devastating types of cyberattacks, targeting a company’s most strategically important systems and assets. As enterprises rush out new internal and customer-facing AI chatbots, they’re also creating new attack vectors and risks.
How porous AI chatbots are is reflected in the recently published research, ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against…
As the demand for generative AI continues to grow, concerns about its safe and reliable deployment have become more prominent than ever. Enterprises want to ensure that the large language model (LLM) applications being developed for internal or external use deliver outputs…
AI21 Labs juices up gen AI transformers with Jamba
March 29, 2024
Ever since the groundbreaking research paper “Attention is All You Need” debuted in 2017, the concept of transformers has dominated the generative AI landscape.
Transformers however are not the only path forward with generative AI. A new approach from AI21 Labs dubbed…
AI risk management startup ValidMind raises $8.1M to help banks comply with regulations
March 28, 2024
ValidMind, a startup focused on AI and model risk management for financial institutions, announced today that it has raised $8.1 million in seed funding. The round was led by Point72 Ventures, with participation from several other venture capital firms.
The new capital comes as banks face growing pressure to expand their use of AI, while ensuring these technologies comply with regulations.
