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HoundDog.ai raises $3.1M to help companies proactively prevent sensitive data leaks
HoundDog.ai Inc., a startup that has built an artificial intelligence-powered code scanner to prevent sensitive data leaks and automate compliance, said today it has closed on a $3.1 million seed funding round. Today’s round was led by E14, Mozilla and Ex/ante and saw the participation of several angel investors, including Amjad Masad, chief executive of ...
Pinecone launches serverless edition of its vector database on AWS
Vector database startup Pinecone Systems Inc. said today the serverless version of its platform is launching in general availability on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud platform after a successful beta testing phase. Pinecone is the creator of an advanced vector database that can dynamically store, transform and index billions of high-dimensional data points, enabling ...
Generative AI music maker startup Suno raises $125M in funding
Generative artificial intelligence music creation platform Suno Inc. said today it has raised $125 million in funding that will fuel its ambition to create “a future where anyone can make music.” Today’s round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Matrix and Founder Collective. Founded by Harvard Ph.D. Mikey Shulman, Suno has ...
Microsoft’s Copilot is becoming more of a team player
Microsoft Corp. is expanding its family of generative artificial intelligence-powered Copilots, introducing new virtual assistants in its Teams and SharePoint collaboration platforms, and announcing updates to the existing Microsoft Copilot in Azure. Today’s updates, announced at Microsoft Build 2024, are aimed at accelerating the company’s mission to bring its generative AI virtual assistant experience to ...
Microsoft beefs up Azure’s arsenal of generative AI development tools
Microsoft Corp. is trying to make life easier for generative artificial intelligence developers, with a host of updates to its developer tooling today. The software and cloud giant said the updates should help teams build more capable and knowledgeable AI models, including dedicated copilots, that can fulfill a wider range of enterprise-related tasks. The announcements at ...
Stanford HAI says generative AI model transparency is improving, but there’s a long way to go
Researchers from Stanford University today published an update to their Foundation Model Transparency Index, which looks at the transparency of popular generative artificial intelligence models such as OpenAI’s GPT family, Google LLC’s Gemini models and Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama series. The FMTI, which was first published in October, is designed to assess the transparency of ...
IBM pivots to focus on code generation with open-source Granite generative AI models
IBM Corp. today made clear its intention to stay at the forefront of generative artificial intelligence development, announcing a host of updates to its year-old watsonx platform, including a new family of open-source Granite models. It also launched an initiative called InstructLab, which aims to accelerate the contributions of the open-source community to generative AI ...
Zoom delivers earnings beat and lifts its full-year guidance, but investors are unimpressed
Zoom Video Communications Inc. posted fiscal first-quarter profit, earnings and sales that came in just ahead of Wall Street’s expectations, assisted by the rollout of artificial intelligence across more of its products, but the company’s near-term forecast came up light, sending its stock slightly lower in extended trading today. The company reported net income for ...
Google’s Project Gameface lets people control Android devices using gestures and facial expressions
Google LLC is bringing a host of new accessibility upgrades to Android, with the headline feature something known as Project Gameface, which uses artificial intelligence to translate facial expressions and gestures into on-screen actions. Project Gameface was first conceived as a kind of hands-free mouse for gamers, but Google quickly realized that the technology behind ...
Cloud developer tools startup Replit lays off 20% of its workforce amid generative AI push
Developer tooling startup Replit Inc., which has emerged at the forefront of the push toward generative artificial intelligence coding, has announced it’s letting go of 30 of its staff, or just under 20% of its total workforce. The news came via an email from Replit Chief Executive Amjad Masad to the company’s employees, which was posted ...