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Collective raises $50M funding to launch AI-powered finance platform for freelancers

Collective, an online back-office platform for solopreneurs, announced today that it raised $50 million in funding from a syndicate of investors, including Google’s AI fund, Gradient Ventures, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa, and Better Tomorrow Ventures. The funding will support the launch of Collective’s new AI-driven financial management offering. By…
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Anthropic unveils Claude 2, an AI model that produces longer, safer responses

Anthropic, an AI safety startup based in San Francisco, announced today the release of Claude 2, a more capable version of its AI model Claude that produces longer and safer conversations with humans. The updated model has been trained on additional data to generate responses of up to 4000 tokens, up from around 512 tokens in the last version released just four months ago (Claude 1.3). According…
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Announcing the nominees for VentureBeat’s 5th Annual Women in AI awards

With VentureBeat’s flagship event VB Transform right around the corner, we are excited to announce the nominees for the 5th annual Women in AI Awards. The winners will be announced during lunch on the main stage of Transform on July 12 in San Francisco. The announcement will also be live-streamed on our homepage VentureBeat.com. Transform is a two-day in-person event taking place on July 11 and…
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3 ways businesses can ethically and effectively develop generative AI models

President Biden is meeting with AI experts to examine the dangers of AI. Sam Altman and Elon Musk are publicly voicing their concerns. Consulting giant Accenture became the latest to bet on AI, announcing plans to invest $3 billion in the technology and double its AI-focused staff to 80,000. That’s on top of other consulting firms, with Microsoft, Alphabet and Nvidia joining the fray. Major…
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