DataStax, a leading provider of data management solutions for enterprises, announced today its acquisition of Langflow, an innovative startup that has developed an open-source platform for building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.
The acquisition marks a significant milestone in DataStax’s mission to empower businesses with cutting-edge AI capabilities and accelerate the…
S&P Global, a leading provider of financial intelligence, quietly announced on Wednesday the launch of S&P AI Benchmarks by Kensho. This innovative solution aims to set a new standard for evaluating the performance of large language models (LLMs) in complex financial…
As demand for AI continues to grow, so too is interest and demand in database technologies that help to support AI efforts.
One such vendor is Aerospike which is seeing new demand for its real time NoSQL database platform. To support that demand and help the company expand…
Hailo takes on Nvidia with energy-efficient gen AI accelerator for edge devices and $120M in funding
April 4, 2024
Even as Nvidia continues to mint money from its massive range of generative AI-focused hardware and software offerings, smaller players competing in the same space are not ready to cave in. Case in point: Hailo, an Israel-based startup that just launched a new energy-efficient gen AI accelerator for edge devices.
Officially dubbed Hailo-10, the processor is designed to deploy gen AI applications…
Codium announces Codiumate, a new AI agent that seeks to be Devin for enterprise software development
April 4, 2024
One of the most well-read VentureBeat articles in recent weeks has been our coverage of Devin, an AI “software engineer” from startup Cognition that can autonomously write code, even full applications, given natural language instructions from a user.
It makes sense, as…
Lil Snack has raised $3.1 million for snackable games on a platform that entices players to come back every day.
That’s a pretty hefty funding amount for a company that until recently had just two people: cofounders Eric Berman and Travis Chen.
Fortunately for Lil Snack…
Resemble AI is launching Rapid Voice Cloning, a new feature of its platform that significantly expedites the process of generating voice clones. The company works in the elusive AI voice category focused on enterprise users.
Available today, Rapid Voice Cloning can duplicate voices from relatively short datasets and produce an output in just about a minute. The move, Resemble says, marks a…
Read AI, a leader in AI-powered meeting summaries, today announced a $21 million Series A financing round led by Goodwater Capital, with participation from existing investor Madrona Venture Group. The funds will be used to accelerate the company’s mission of building the…
Cloudflare makes it simple to deploy AI apps with Hugging Face, launches Workers AI to public
April 3, 2024
Cloudflare is now letting more developers bring their AI applications from Hugging Face onto its platform. In addition, the company has made its serverless GPU-powered inference, known as Workers AI, generally available.
The Cloudflare-Hugging Face integration was announced…
Seattle-based OctoAI has a new offering called OctoStack, designed to help those in the enterprise deploy private generative AI models. Companies can use this “turn-key production platform” in a virtual private cloud or on-premises and will have access to highly optimized inference, model customization and asset management. In doing so, OctoAI wants to give companies the freedom to build and…
