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Ready Robotics uses Nvidia Omniverse for Toyota industrial robotics

Toyota partnered with Ready Robotics to simulate and program industrial robotics using Nvidia’s Omniverse platform. The “sim-to-real” robotic programming aims to advance industrial robotics, using both Ready Robotics’ Ready ForgeOS and Nvidia Isaac Sim on the Omniverse platform. Toyota will use the tech for its aluminum hot forging production lines. The tech is the latest expression of…
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DataStax makes it easier to build generative AI RAG apps with new data API

DataStax is looking to make it easier for developers to build generative AI retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications with a new data API out today. DataStax is one of the leading commercial vendors behind the open source Apache Cassandra database, which is the foundation of its AstraDB cloud database-as-a-service.  Like many other database vendors, DataStax has added vector database…
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Tokyo startup Sakana AI lands $30M to forge new path with compact AI models

Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence startup co-founded by two notable ex-Google engineers, announced today that it has raised $30 million in seed funding from high-profile technology investors. The young company, founded just last year, aims to take a different approach to AI by developing smaller, more efficient models inspired by nature.  The seed round was led by Lux Capital…
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New Deloitte gen AI report: Business leaders concerned about societal impact, tech talent

Generative AI is moving so quickly that consulting leader Deloitte has published the first edition of a new quarterly survey exploring gen AI’s impact on the enterprise. The State of Generative AI in the Enterprise: Now Decides Next surveyed 2,800 respondents from director to C-suite level across six industries and sixteen countries. One key survey finding showed that, while optimistic about the…
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