Maria Deutscher

Maria Deutscher is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE covering all things enterprise and fresh. Her work takes her from the bowels of the corporate network up to the great free ranges of the open-source ecosystem and back on a daily basis, with the occasional pit stop in the world of end-users. She is especially passionate about cloud computing and data analytics, although she also has a soft spot for stories that diverge from the beaten track to provide a more unique perspective on the complexities of the industry.

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Microsoft Copilot to receive new coding and multimodal search capabilities

AI - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. is updating Microsoft Copilot, its collection of conversational search services, with new features that will enable users to find information and perform data science tasks more easily. The company announced the update this morning. Some of the new capabilities are available today, while others are set to roll out in the near future.  ...

AssemblyAI raises $50M for its cloud-based AI speech models

AI - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

AssemblyAI Inc., a startup that develops artificial intelligence models optimized to process audio files, has secured $50 million in late-stage funding to support its growth efforts.  The company announced the Series C investment today. Lead investor Accel was joined by Insight Partners, Salesforce Inc. co-Chief Executive Keith Block, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman and a ...

Extropic raises $14.1M to build ‘physics-based computing’ hardware for generative AI

EMERGING TECH - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Extropic, a hardware startup led by former members of Alphabet Inc.’s quantum computing research team, today announced that it has raised $14.1 million in seed funding.  Kindred Ventures led the investment. It was joined by HOF Capital, Julian Capital, Marque VC, OSS Capital, Valor Equity Partners and Weekend Fund. Extropic says the round also saw ...

AI-powered text generation startup Rohirrim nabs $15M in fresh funding

AI - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Startup Rohirrim Inc. today announced that it has raised $15 million to expand the adoption of its artificial intelligence-powered text generation platform. Rohirrim received the investment, a Series A round, from Insight Partners and returning backer General Purpose Venture Capital. The cash infusion comes less than a year after the company’s launch from stealth mode.  ...

Broadcom to let go 1,800+ VMware employees amid push for increased profitability

CLOUD - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Broadcom Inc. is letting go more than 1,800 VMware employees amid an effort to boost the virtualization giant’s earnings significantly. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the job cuts on Thursday, citing regulatory filings. Some 1,267 of the employees who will be let go work at VMware’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California. An additional 600 affected ...

Google reportedly asks UK’s CMA to take antitrust action against Microsoft

POLICY - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Google LLC has reportedly asked U.K. antitrust officials to take action against Microsoft Corp. over the way the company licenses its software to public cloud users. Reuters reported the move today. Google is said to have made the request in a letter sent to the U.K.’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority. The news ...

Apple to become largest customer of new $2B chip packaging facility in Arizona

INFRA - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. today announced that it will become the first and largest customer of a $2 billion chip packaging facility Amkor Technology Inc. is building in Arizona. The facility will process chips that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. plans to make for Apple at a nearby fab complex. Last December, TSMC estimated that the complex will ...

Kognitos reels in $20M for its natural language task automation platform

AI - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Task automation startup Kognitos Inc. today announced that it has closed a $20 million Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Existing backers Clear Ventures, Engineering Capital and Wipro Ventures chipped in as well. The new investment brings Kognitos’ total outside funding to $30 million. Many enterprises use RPA, or robotic process automation, tools ...

AWS releases new cloud application monitoring features

CLOUD - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced a new application management tool, myApplications, that will help customers find ways of operating their cloud workloads more cost-efficiently. The tool also lends itself to other use cases. According to AWS, administrators can leverage myApplications to track workloads’ hardware usage and scan them for potential cybersecurity weak points. Additionally, ...

Amazon Bedrock receives new AI evaluation tool and more foundation models

CLOUD - BY MARIA DEUTSCHER - 3 YEARS AGO

Amazon Web Services Inc. is rolling out a new tool that will enable developers to compare the foundation models in its Amazon Bedrock Service more easily. The tool was announced today at AWS re:Invent 2023. It’s rolling out to Bedrock alongside three new foundation models: Anthropic PBC’s Claude 2.1, the open-source Llama 2 model from ...