Captions, an AI-powered video creation app for iOS that launched in 2021 and counted more than three million users to date, today announced a $25 million in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with additional funding provided by Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and SV Angel.
The company has now raised a total $40 million. It was founded by Gaurav Misra, former head of design…
Toyota Research Institute (TRI) unveiled an innovative generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that aims to enhance the creative process of vehicle designers. The tool enables designers to generate design sketches through text prompts, incorporating precise stylistic…
Data engineering startup Prophecy is giving a new turn to data pipeline creation.
Known for its low-code SQL tooling, the California-based company today announced data copilot, a generative AI assistant that can create trusted data pipelines from natural language prompts and…
White House mum on jailed Defense News correspondent
June 22, 2023
Senior White House officials said press freedom would be among the topics discussed this week by President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in private meetings, but would not commit to specifically intervening in the case of Defense News contributor Vivek Raghuvanshi.
Raghuvanshi, a journalist and freelancer to Defense News for more than three decades, was jailed in mid-May by…
WASHINGTON — The House’s proposed version of the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act includes provisions that would push the Air Force to make available more pilot training aircraft — both old and new — and tap the brakes on some future fighter…
Metal, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup focused on enterprise applications, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding led by Swift Ventures with participation from Y Combinator and Chapter One. The funding will be used to expand Metal’s…
Armilla AI debuts AutoAlign, allowing enterprises to fine-tune their AI models to block hallucinations, harm
June 22, 2023
AI is in the air for large enterprises this year. Survey after survey shows that executives and workers alike are feeling more optimistic and more interested in using AI tools than ever before, and some companies are already entrusting large portions of their workforce with them in the more than 6 months since OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene and presented a user-friendly interface for…
Opaque Systems unveils confidential AI and analytics tools ahead of Confidential Computing Summit
June 22, 2023
AI and analytics company Opaque Systems today announced new innovations for its confidential computing platform. The new offerings prioritize the confidentiality of organizational data while using large language models (LLMs).
The company announced that it will showcase…
MosaicML, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in San Francisco, announced today the release of its groundbreaking language model, MPT-30B. The new model, trained at a fraction of the cost of its competitors, promises to revolutionize the field of artificial…
The next wave of cyber threats: Defending your company against cybercriminals empowered by generative AI
June 22, 2023
Presented by Telesign
Personal data is under siege in the digital world, from deepfakes to exploiting human error, vulnerabilities and trust. In this VB Spotlight, security experts will dig into the current landscape, how to get ahead and stay ahead of cybercriminals and more.
Watch free on-demand here.
What’s at stake when corporations don’t put strategies in place to protect their employees…
