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Mistral introduces Shieldstral to provide lightweight policy-aware moderation for AI models
French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI SAS today introduced a lightweight multimodal safety artificial intelligence open-weight model that can classify outputs for AI models that outperforms other large language models up to seven times its size, setting a new standard for moderation. The new model, named Shieldstral, allows developers to write policies in natural language ...
Amazon brings native real-time vector search to DynamoDB to support AI apps at scale
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of vector search to DynamoDB, the company’s high-availability NoSQL key-value and document database designed for high speed and scale. Launched in 2012, the database service has gone through numerous iterations and is positioned today as the go-to database for developers who need predictable performance without operational ...
AWS launches Kiro Crew, an autonomous agentic orchestrator for 24/7 code development
Amazon Web Services Inc. today launched Kiro Crew, an autonomous workspace that keeps artificial intelligence coding agents running all day and all night. The company said it developed Crew to allow developers to start a task, walk away and come back when something is worth administering. It tasks multiple agents and their sub-agents on a ...
HappyRobot raises $150M at $1.2B valuation to bring AI agents to critical enterprise work
HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise operations, said today it raised $150 million, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to $1.2 billion. Existing investors a16z, Base10, Y Combinator joined venture capital firms Koch Disruptive Technologies, Orange, T.Capital, Bankinter, Endeavor Catalyst, Kfund and Wave-X ...
Nvidia open-sources cuFile API, accelerating GPU read/write capability for high-speed storage
As artificial intelligence applications become ever hungrier for faster access to data, Nvidia Corp. today announced it is open-sourcing the application programming interface for its powerful cuFile vertical data storage stack, enabling millisecond data access. The company also announced a large-scale industry initiative with technology leaders to optimize memory and storage with Storage-Next. The initiative ...
LexisNexis opens customer innovation lab driven by AI to change the future of legal work
LexisNexis Legal & Professional, a division of RELX plc, today announced the opening of its Customer Innovation Lab in New York City, which will deliver a new model for how legal artificial intelligence gets built. The company said the shift is designed to bring AI directly into the grasp of legal professionals. Instead of building ...
PolyAI launches new real-time voice conversation model to make AI-driven calls more human
Voice assistant and conversational AI agent developer PolyAI Ltd. today announced the release of Dialog-RSN-1, a voice dialog artificial intelligence model capable of directly perceiving and responding to audio. Voice AI companies have been working to reduce delay and increase accuracy in voice AI agents, enabling them to sound more human on phone calls. In ...
Pangram Labs raises $9M to launch more accurate AI detection for text and images
Pangram Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence research lab that develops AI detection software, today announced it raised $9 million, led by Menlo Ventures, to improve the accuracy of its core text detection and expand into other media, starting with images. Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital and Cadenza also participated in the investment round. The ...
SnapLogic transforms SnapGPT into a high-powered agentic assistant for the entire integration lifecycle
Enterprise data integration and automation firm SnapLogic Inc. today announced a significant update to SnapGPT, the company’s artificial intelligence copilot for enterprise data automation, transforming it into an agentic assistant. Launched in 2023, SnapGPT provides assistance for users building data automation and creating enterprise-ready integrations. The new SnapGPT updates shift it from a copilot to ...
Anthropic and Nvidia come out against blanket bans on open-weight AI models
As the United States government debates new artificial intelligence rules and regulations, Anthropic PBC and Nvidia Corp. are drawing a line against blanket bans on open-weight models, urging regulators to focus instead on specific risks and misuse. An open-weight model is one where the developer releases its trained parameters, the “weights,” which are the numerical ...