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Neurologyca launches research labs to help frontier AI models understand people
Neurologyca, a company working on human-centric artificial intelligence, announced the launch of a research division on Tuesday dedicated to advancing AI models’ ability to understand and adapt to people. The research lab, named Neurologyca Labs, will formalize the scientific development of the company’s Human Context AI platform, which will enable intelligent systems to recognize, interpret and ...
TwelveLabs raises $100M to bring superintelligence to AI video models
TwelveLabs Inc., the developer of generative artificial intelligence foundation models that can understand videos like humans, today announced it has raised $100 million in early funding to expand beyond simple understanding to achieve holistic intelligence. The Series B round was co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures. Amazon, Radical Ventures, Korea Investment Partners, Index Ventures, Quadrille Capital and Red ...
China’s Meituan open-sources massive LongCat-2.0 AI model, saying it was trained on domestic chips
Beijing, China-based Meituan Inc. today debuted its next-generation LongCat-2.0 open-source large language model, stating that the company trained the 1.6-trillion-parameter model on domestic Chinese chips and compute clusters. The larger takeaway for this colossal model isn’t just the open-source release, it’s the domestic hardware throughline. Meituan may initially seem like an unlikely place for AI ...
AWS launches forward-deployed engineering team to speed enterprise agentic AI adoption
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today it’s rolling out a new dedicated organization to bring agentic artificial intelligence systems, built on the same technology, to customers by embedding engineers in enterprise customer operations. Backed by a $1 billion investment, the dedicated Forward Deployed Engineering department will bring what the cloud computing giant calls AWS frontier ...
Queue raises $12.6M to launch ‘fully robotic pharmacy’ kiosk to make picking up meds more convenient
Queue, a company building an autonomous “robotic” pharmacy kiosk that dispenses medication, today announced that it has raised $12.6 million in seed funding led by AlleyCorp. The company is launching today with $18.6 million under its belt, which includes today’s seed round and $6 million in pre-seed funding led by Riot Ventures less than a ...
Build raises $8.5M to accelerate industrial infrastructure development project work
Build Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven startup that automates complex industrial real estate development management projects, today announced it has raised an $8.5 million seed round led by Index Ventures. Pebblebed, Puzzle Ventures and Tiny.vc also participated in the round. A range of industry-focused angels joining the round included OpenAI Group PBC Chief Financial Officer Sarah ...
Chinese robotics outfits AI2 Robotics and X Square Robots each secure funding at $2.8B valuation
Two Chinese general-purpose and embodied artificial intelligence firms, AI2 Robotics and X Square Robots, today announced funding rounds that pushed their respective valuations beyond 50 billion RMB, or about $2.8 billion. These Chinese firms continue to push the envelope in developing the next generation of smart machines. Embodied AI, also known as physical AI, is ...
Runpod raises $100M to build the leading cloud platform for AI developers
Artificial intelligence developer-centric cloud provider Runpod Inc. announced Wednesday that it has raised $100 million in early-stage funding, pushing the valuation of the company to $1 billion. The Series A funding, led by Summit Partners, brings the company’s total funding to $122 million across multiple rounds, including a seed round in May 2024 co-led by Intel ...
TrueFoundry acquires MLOps pioneer Seldon AI to accelerate enterprise agentic AI
TrueFoundry Inc., a startup providing management for artificial intelligence workloads, announced Wednesday that it has acquired open-source, cloud-agnostic enterprise machine learning platform Seldon Technologies Ltd. for an undisclosed price. The company provides the infrastructure needed to run AI models in production without the pain of building it in-house by delivering prepackaged features for deploying and ...
Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment
Salesforce Inc. is launching a new prepackaged artificial intelligence agent for customer service, enabling organizations to build and deploy AI agents quickly. Today Salesforce announced Help Agent, a prebuilt service agent set atop the Agentforce platform. It can be connected to company knowledge, actions and communication channels in minutes – including web, text and voice. ...