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WilsonAI raises $1.7M in pre-seed funding for ‘AI paralegal’
WilsonAI Co., the provider of an artificial intelligence-powered assistant for in-house legal operations, said today it has raised $1.7 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of what the company calls an AI paralegal that companies can “hire” for their teams. The company was founded in 2024 by Chief Executive Gus Naete, formerly a ...
Spore.Bio raises $23M to cut microbiology testing to minutes from days using AI
Paris-based Spore.Bio, a startup that developed an artificial intelligence-driven method for detecting pathogens, said today it has raised $23 million in early-stage funding to reinvent microbiology testing. The company’s Series A funding round was led by Singular and joined by Point 72, 1st Kind Ventures, Station F and Lord David Prior. Returning investors LocalGlobe, No ...
Nvidia uses AI to release Signs, a sign language teaching platform
To increase accessibility to American Sign Language learning, Nvidia Corp. today announced the launch of a new artificial intelligence-powered platform that offers instruction day and night. The platform is called Signs, a teaching platform developed in partnership with Nvidia, the American Society for Deaf Children and the creative agency Hello Monday. It’s an interactive web ...
Decentralized protocol leaders join forces to launch HumanAIx AI infrastructure alliance
OORT, a decentralized blockchain-based cloud computing platform for artificial intelligence, today announced the launch of HumanAIx, a global alliance for decentralized protocols to build better AI infrastructure. HumanAIx will be an open protocol where partners will connect together, each contributing a critical component – validation, storage, compute and data — to form a decentralized AI ...
Augury raises $75M for AI-driven industrial equipment health and repair process optimization
Israel-based Augury Inc., a provider of internet of things sensors and artificial intelligence to predict machine repairs, today announced it has raised $75 million in a late-stage funding round. Lightrock led the Series F round, with returning investors participating including Insight Venture Partners, Eclipse Ventures, Munich Re Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures and ...
British legaltech startup Luminance raises $75M for contract AI assistant
London-based legal artificial intelligence startup Luminance Technologies Ltd. today announced it has raised $75 million in a Series C funding round led by Point72 Investments. The funding for Luminance comes amid a flurry of investments directed at AI legaltech startups and businesses. New investors Forestay Capital, RPS Ventures and Schroders Capital participated in the round, ...
Elon Musk’s xAI unveils Grok-3 with advanced reasoning capabilities
Elon Musk’s xAI Corp. late Monday night announced the launch of Grok-3, the latest in the company’s family of large language models. The company says the AI model is a significant leap in power over its previous Grok-2 LLM that includes “reasoning models” to mimic human thinking. During a livestream announcement, xAI researchers said that ...
AI-driven critical infrastructure cybersecurity startup Dream raises $100M at $1.1B valuation
Dream, an artificial intelligence startup that provides cybersecurity to governments and critical infrastructure, said today it has raised $100 million in early-stage funding at a $1.1 billion valuation. The round was led by Bain Capital Venture, and other investors participating in the Series B round included Group 11, Tru Arrow, Tau Capital and Aleph. The ...
Legal AI startup Eudia launches with $105M to bring AI agents to legal teams
Eudia, an artificial intelligence startup for in-house corporate legal teams, launched Thursday with up to $105 million in early-stage funding to bring the power of AI agents to the legal industry. The Series A round was led by General Catalyst with participation from Floodgate, Sierra Ventures, Hakluyt Capital, Defy, Everywhere Ventures, B3 Capital, Backbone and ...
SpotDraft raises $54M to help legal teams manage contracts with AI
SpotDraft, which makes an artificial intelligence-powered platform for contract lifecycle management, announced Wednesday it has raised $54 million in a Series B funding led by Vertex Growth and Trident Partners. The company provides a tool for corporate legal teams to manage all aspects of contracting using AI to do the laborious knowledge work. This includes ...