AI & Robotics

AI, particularly generative AI and large language models (LLMs), has made tremendous technical strides and is reaching the inflection point of widespread industry adoption. With McKinsey reporting that AI high-performers are already going “all in on artificial intelligence,” companies know they must embrace the latest AI technologies or be left behind.  However, the field of AI safety is…

London-based Recraft, a startup offering brands an AI-powered graphic design generator, today announced it has raised $12 million in a series A round of funding. The investment has been co-led by Khosla Ventures and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, with participation from RTP Global, Abstract VC, Basis Set Ventures, Elad Gil and other angels. Founded by Anna Veronika Dorogush, who created CatBoost…

AI video is still in its early days but the tech is advancing fast. Case in point, New York City-based Runway, a generative AI startup enabling individuals and enterprises to produce videos in different styles, today updated its Gen-2 foundation model with a new tool, Muti Motion Brush, which allows creators to add multiple directions and types of motion to their AI video creations. The advance…

A new artificial intelligence system developed by Google DeepMind, one of the world’s leading AI labs, can solve complex geometry problems at a level comparable to a human gold medalist in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), a prestigious competition for high-school students. The system, called AlphaGeometry, combines two different approaches: a neural language model that generates…