Anthropic, a leading AI company, has announced the general availability of Tool Use for its AI assistant, Claude. This powerful new feature allows Claude to autonomously interact with external data sources, APIs, and tools, revolutionizing the way businesses can leverage AI to automate tasks, personalize recommendations, and streamline data analysis.
Tool Use is now available across the entire…
Companies no longer need to buy a ChatGPT Enterprise license directly from OpenAI. They can now purchase the gen AI service through the multinational professional service consultancy PwC. Until today, businesses could only subscribe to the enterprise option by reaching out…
Kinetix, the generative AI startup creating user-generated emotes (UGE) for video games, has teamed up with Overdare to put generative AI in the hands of gamers.
Overdare is a user-generated content (UGC) platform from South Korean publishing giant Krafton. Today, the…
OpenAI is devouring the media industry
May 30, 2024
Let’s make one thing clear up front: I’m generally pro-generative AI. At least, I am a lot more amenable to it — and use it myself daily in the form of parsing information via ChatGPT and generating images with it and Midjourney — than many of my peers in the journalism industry.
Nonetheless, I am curious and concerned about the recent trend of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and its underlying…
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6B to take on OpenAI
May 29, 2024
Today, Elon Musk’s xAI startup announced a massive $6 billion round of funding. Confirming reports from April, the series B investment comes from the participation of multiple known venture capital firms and investors, including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital…
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI this morning announced it has begun training its new “frontier model” and formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by current board members Bret Taylor (OpenAI board chair and co-founder of customer service startup Sierra AI, former Google Maps…
GitHub Accelerator fuels open source AI revolution, empowering startups to democratize access
May 29, 2024
GitHub has officially launched its 2024 Accelerator program, aiming to support and promote open source projects that are reshaping the technology landscape. The program, designed to provide financial backing, mentorship, and community-building opportunities, is already generating significant buzz among developers and enterprises alike.
Stormy Peters, GitHub’s VP of Communities, emphasized the…
Atropos Health, a healthcare technology company focused on generating personalized real-world evidence, announced today that it has raised $33 million in a Series B funding round. The round included strategic investments from healthcare giants McKesson, Merck, and Cencora…
Anomaly has raised $1.45 million for an AI-driven Layer 3 Web3 gaming platform.
Anomaly unveiled its AI-driven layer 3 gaming platform, which the company said has captivatedTelegram’s users with a novel “play-to-airdrop” mechanism.
The recent funding round valued…
In its Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the explosive growth of generative AI (GenAI) startups using Nvidia’s accelerated computing platform.
“There’s a long line of generative AI startups, some 15,000, 20,000 startups in all different fields from multimedia to digital characters, design to application productivity, digital biology,” said Huang.
