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Cleanlab emerges with $5 million to automate data curation for LLMs and the modern AI stack

July 20, 2023
Cleanlab, a startup that provides a data curation solution for large language models (LLMs) used in enterprise AI, announced today that it has secured $5 million in seed funding. The investment round was led by Bain Capital Ventures, marking a significant vote of confidence in Cleanlab’s mission to eliminate the “dirty data problem” plaguing the machine learning space. The startup, founded…
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PlusMusic.ai uses AI to create in-game soundtracks

July 20, 2023
PlusMusic.ai, a first-of-its-kind adaptive audio AI platform, is using AI to streamline the process of creating and integrating music into games. The company is aiming to revolutionize the future of in-game soundtrack creation and music as downloadable content (DLC) revenue…
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Reimagining the data center for the age of generative AI

July 20, 2023
This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series here: The future of the data center: Handling greater and greater demands. Today, any conversation about artificial intelligence is bound to include the rise of ChatGPT, the ubiquitous chatbot built on OpenAI’s GPT series of large language models (LLMs). But how can you feed the demands of this kind of generative AI technology in…
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AI21 Labs debuts Contextual Answers, a plug-and-play AI engine for enterprise data

July 20, 2023
AI21 Labs, the Tel Aviv-based NLP major behind the Wordtune editor, has announced the launch of a plug-and-play generative AI engine to help enterprises drive value from their data assets. Dubbed Contextual Answers, the offering comes as a dedicated API that can be directly embedded into digital assets to implement large language model (LLM) technology on select organizational data. It can enable…
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The new open-source AI full-stack platform challenging OpenAI (and supporting LLaMA 2)

July 19, 2023
Yesterday’s release of Meta’s LLaMA 2, under a commercial license, was undoubtedly an open-source AI mic drop. But startup Together, known for creating the RedPajama dataset in April, which replicated the LLaMA dataset, had its own big news over the past couple of days: It has released a new full-stack platform and cloud service for developers at startups and enterprises to build open-source…
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