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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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ComputersNews

Apple's MacBook Air M1 is back on sale for $750

July 20, 2023
This is a great moment to get a Mac laptop on a budget, particularly if you’re heading back to school. Amazon has the MacBook Air M1 with 256GB of storage on sale for a record low of $750, or $249 off. That’s the same price we saw on Prime Day, and applies regardless of color. Apple MacBook Air M1 (256GB) $750 $999 Save $249 Apple’s entry-level laptop is back down to…
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GamingNews

Xbox Game Pass adds Celeste, Venba in late July wave

July 20, 2023
Missed the GamesBeat Summit excitement? Don’t worry! Tune in now to catch all of the live and virtual sessions here. Xbox announced today which games are coming to Game Pass in the second wave of July. The new games only include one launch day release, but otherwise…
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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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