Neon, a serverless PostgreSQL database company, announced it has successfully raised $46 million in a series B round of funding.
This brings the company’s total funding raised to $104 million. Neon launched its service in 2022. The new funding round was led by Menlo Ventures, and included the participation of Founders Fund, General Catalyst, GGV Capital, Khosla Ventures, Snowflake Ventures and…
McKinsey and Company is no stranger to generative artificial intelligence (gen AI): around half of the global consulting giant’s employees were said to be using the technology as of earlier this summer.
But it’s not the only org to see a rapid uptake of gen AI. Indeed, a…
Quick Charge Podcast: July 31, 2023
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Tesla and other automakers are reportedly in talks with Exxon Mobil to secure lithium from a new source in Arkansas.
There are a few metals that need to be mined more to support the increased demand for batteries, which is primarily driven by the rise of electric vehicles.
Lithium is one of the metals at the top of that list.
The price has been quite volatile, to say the least, and automakers and…
As the brutal heat wave in Texas continues, Electrek spoke with Julia Souder, CEO of the global nonprofit Long Duration Energy Storage Council, about how big battery storage is helping to keep the Texas grid online.
Electrek: How is big battery storage helping to keep the…
The two instruments aboard Euclid, an ESA (European Space Agency) spacecraft with NASA contributions, have captured their first test images. The results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for – and possibly much…
NASA’s Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) recently reached some major milestones in support of the Mars Sample Return program. The Mars Ascent Vehicle would be the first launch of a rocket from the surface of another planet. The team developing MAV conducted successful tests of the first and second stage solid rocket motors needed for the launch.
Mars Sample Return will bring scientifically selected…
Dell Technologies is looking to help customers navigate the generative AI landscape with a new portfolio of solutions announced Monday.
The new Dell Generative AI solutions portfolio expands on an initial announcement the company made in May under the name Project Helix…
In recent years, large diffusion models such as DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion have gained recognition for their capacity to generate high-quality, photorealistic images and their ability to perform various image synthesis and editing tasks.
But concerns are arising about…
Google’s DeepMind has announced Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2), a first-of-its-kind vision-language-action (VLA) model that can enable robots to perform novel tasks without specific training.
Just like how language models learn general ideas and concepts from web-scale data, RT-2 uses text and images from the web to understand different real-world concepts and translate that knowledge into…
