Insilico Medicine, the Hong Kong and New York-based biotech startup that has raised over $400 million to connect biology, chemistry, and clinical trial analysis using next-generation AI systems, announced a new paper today that highlights the journey of what it claims is the first AI-generated and AI-discovered drug — which has now reached Phase II clinical trials.
The paper, in Nature…
AI has emerged as a focal point of discourse and, at times, vigorous debate. The underlying concerns are not unfounded. Its infusion into nearly every sphere of work and lifestyle has touched the core of human existence. The technology, while propelling a surge of…
The tech world got its popcorn out last night after OpenAI dropped a new blog post that responded to the lawsuit Elon Musk filed last week against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman. Musk’s claims include breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and…
Today, Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, announced a new foundation model called Inflection-2.5.
Built on the work done so far, Inflection-2.5 outperforms the company’s original Inflection-1 significantly and nearly matches OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, especially across STEM subjects. It now powers the…
When it comes to business automation, Zapier is undoubtedly one of the most well recognized names, counting more than 2.2 million lifetime customers, according to its website, thanks to its ability to set up workflows across more than 6,000 third-party workplace…
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OpenAI responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit by planning to dismiss his claims. A series of redacted emails depict Musk's initial acceptance of OpenAI forming a for-profit entity for AGI funding. The conflict arose when Musk proposed merging OpenAI into…
Salesforce is continuing its generative AI push with the availability today of the company’s Einstein 1 Studio, timed to coincide with the company’s TrailblazerDX developer conference.
Einstein 1 Studio provides a set of tools that can enable developers to customize the Salesforce Einstein Copilot gen AI assistant, which became available as a beta release last week. The Einstein 1 Studio was…
Generative AI has created a profound and positive shift inside of Citi toward data-driven decision making, but for now the nation’s top-three bank has decided against an external facing chatbot because the risks are still too high.
Those remarks, from Citi’s Promiti…
Today, Boston-based Metaplane, a startup looking to improve and rectify data quality issues for enterprises, announced it has raised $13.8 million in a series A round of funding. Venture Capital firm Felicis led the investment with participation from Khosla Ventures…
AI video startup Haiper emerges from stealth, plans to build AGI with full perceptual abilities
March 6, 2024
As OpenAI continues to drive virality with the content produced by Sora, its yet-to-launch AI video platform, competitors are going all in to push the bar with their respective offerings. Just a few days ago, Pika Labs introduced lip-sync to its product. And now, an entirely new AI video startup “Haiper” has emerged from stealth with $13.8 million in seed funding from Octopus Ventures.
Founded…
