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AI startup Artificial Societies simulates the behavior of target audiences to speed up market research
Artificial intelligence audience testing startup Artificial Societies Ltd. today launched its flagship “societal simulator” tool in order to speed up market research. The Artificial Collective Intelligence or AS platform is designed to understand social dynamics and accurately predict trends, so that businesses and creators can test how specific target audiences might respond to new products, ...
Lumana gets $40M to build more intelligent video surveillance systems
Lumana AI Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to automate video surveillance, wants to alter the way businesses monitor the physical world after raising $40 million in an early-stage funding. Today’s Series A round was led by Wing Venture Capital and saw continued backing from Norwest Venture Partners LP and S Capital VC Management Ltd., ...
AI-native clinical documentation startup Ambience Healthcare raises $243M
Ambience Healthcare Inc., a provider of ambient artificial intelligence documentation tools, said today it has closed on $243 million in Series C funding, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $345 million. It’s one of the biggest funding rounds in the healthcare technology industry so far this year. It was led by ...
Exclusive: Matrice.ai teams up with Voltage Park to accelerate no-code computer vision development
Computer vision startup Matrice.ai Inc. said today it has closed on a strategic expansion of its seed funding round, adding to the original investment it first disclosed in May. It didn’t disclose the size of the round, but the cloud infrastructure provider Voltage Park Inc. was named as the lead investor, with Ax3.ai, Plug and ...
FluidCloud gets $8.1M to reverse-engineer cloud environments and unlock true multicloud agility
A startup called FluidCloud emerged today to solve the longstanding problem of cloud infrastructure lock-in, saying it has the tools and the technology to reverse-engineer any computing environment so workloads can be shifted from one cloud to the next. It means business, too – it has just raised $8.1 million in seed funding, with Unusual Ventures ...
StackGen’s AI agents do away with scripts to automate cloud infrastructure design and management
StackGen Inc. today threw down the gauntlet to the infrastructure-as-code industry with the official launch of its Autonomous Infrastructure Platform, which uses artificial intelligence agents to build and manage cloud computing environments automatically at scale. The startup, which rebranded from AppCD earlier this year, is looking to transform the way cloud-based technology infrastructure is designed, ...
Cadence settles with US government over export violation, agreeing to $140.6M penalty
Electronic design automation software firm Cadence Design Systems Inc. said it has agreed to pay a fine of $140.6 million as part of a settlement involving claims it illegally sold its software to Chinese customers from 2015 to 2021, in breach of U.S. export rules. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ...
E2B shares its vision of sandboxed, cloud environments for every AI agent after raising $21M in funding
Agentic cloud infrastructure startup E2B said today it has raised $21 million in early-stage funding to build out an entirely new, open-source infrastructure for running artificial intelligence agents securely in the cloud. The startup, officially known as FoundryLabs Inc., said today’s Series A round was led by Insight Partners and saw participation from Decibel, Sunflower Capital, ...
Huawei launches CloudMatrix 384 server as an alternative to Nvidia’s AI infrastructure stack
China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. threw down the gauntlet to Nvidia Corp. Saturday when it revealed its most powerful artificial intelligence server system to date. The company unveiled the CloudMatrix 384 system at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, where dozens of local companies showed off their latest AI hardware. Reuters reported that Huawei ...
Efficient Computer targets edge workloads with highly efficient Electron E1 chip launch
Low-power computer chip startup Efficient Computer Co. today announced the launch of its new flagship Electron E1 processor, dramatically reducing the energy requirements of general-purpose computing workloads. The Electron E1 processor is available to developers now, alongside the company’s new effcc Compiler, which is a tool that helps to simplify how applications are integrated with the ...