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WilsonAI raises $1.7M in pre-seed funding for ‘AI paralegal’

Kyt Dotson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:00:58 +0000

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 […]

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AI search engine startup Genspark reportedly raises $100M at $530M valuation

Maria Deutscher — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:19:49 +0000

Genspark, an artificial intelligence search startup that competes with Google LLC, has reportedly raised $100 million in funding. Reuters today cited sources as saying that the round was led by a group of U.S. and Singapore-based investors. The deal reportedly values Genspark at $530 million, more than twice what it was worth in June. Genspark, […]

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From insights to impact: The role of analytical AI in enterprise strategy

Victor Dabrinze — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:22:38 +0000

Artificial intelligence has become a core element of business strategy across industries. As AI evolves, experts highlight the powerful synergy between high-profile generative AI and established analytical AI, driving industry transformation and boosting operational efficiency. But how do these AI technologies complement each other, and what industries stand to gain the most from their advancement? […]

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DeepSeek didn’t deep-six AI startup funding after all

Robert Hof — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:36:40 +0000

DeepSeek? Who’s that? The Chinese cheap artificial intelligence model maker was supposed to cool investor interest in money-burning AI startups, but that was hardly the case this week. If anything, the AI wars are heating up even more, with a hot new model from Elon Musk’s xAI, the launch of former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer […]

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Google expands availability of Deep Research, an AI tool that wades deep into any topic

Mike Wheatley — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:48:01 +0000

Google LLC said today it’s making its experimental artificial intelligence research tool, called Deep Research, available to Gemini Advanced users via the Google Workspace platform. A relatively new feature that was announced last year, it has the ability to explore complex topics and conduct intensive research about them, answering very specific questions the user might […]

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OpenAI reaches 400M weekly active users, doubles enterprise customer base

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:48:32 +0000

OpenAI today disclosed that ChatGPT and its other products have more than 400 million active weekly users, a 33% increase from December. OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap (pictured) told CNBC that the company’s paying customer base is growing rapidly as well. The ChatGPT developer currently has 2 million paying enterprise users, twice as many […]

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Together AI raises $305M for its AI-optimized public cloud

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:13:08 +0000

Cloud infrastructure startup Together AI Inc. has raised $305 million in new funding at a $3.3 billion valuation. Announced today, the Series B was co-led by General Catalyst and Prosperity7. It also included the participation of more than a dozen other investors. The consortium included Nvidia Corp., Salesforce Ventures and former Cisco Systems Inc. Chief […]

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What to expect during the ‘Oceans of Data: Tackling Climate Research With Data and AI’ event: Join theCUBE Feb. 25

Mark Albertson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:57:32 +0000

Data-driven climate research at leading universities is generally focused on a quest to solve big challenges in the world. Some of these include understanding our global environment, improving health, fostering better use of natural resources, and developing new bio-based products and energy sources. At Oregon State University, a focus on climate research has led the […]

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RingCentral debuts AI phone agent for automating business calls

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:05:46 +0000

RingCentral Inc. today debuted an artificial intelligence agent that companies can embed into their phone systems to automate manual work. The offering is known as the RingCentral AI Receptionist, or AIR for short. NYSE-listed RingCentral is a major provider of communications software, with more than 400,000 customers. Companies use its products to host video meetings, […]

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AI recruiting startup Mercor nabs $100M investment at $2B valuation

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:57:55 +0000

Mercor Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to streamline companies’ recruiting efforts, today announced that it has raised $100 million in funding. The Series B round was led by Felicis. General Catalyst, DST Global, Benchmark and Menlo Ventures chipped in as well. Mercor is now reportedly valued at $2 billion, eight times what it was […]

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Spore.Bio raises $23M to cut microbiology testing to minutes from days using AI

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:50:00 +0000

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 […]

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Box deepens AI-driven content management with Google Cloud Marketplace partnership

Victoria Gayton — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:00:35 +0000

When organizations adopt cloud marketplaces, they’re not just streamlining procurement — they’re reshaping how they innovate, collaborate and scale. For Box Inc., Google LLC’s Google Cloud Marketplace has done just that, opening up new avenues for AI-driven enterprise content management while accelerating deals and deepening customer relationships. The company has expanded integrations across Google Cloud services, […]

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Nvidia uses AI to release Signs, a sign language teaching platform

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:30:05 +0000

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 […]

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IBM Consulting offers enterprises an easier path to agentic AI

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:00:37 +0000

IBM Corp.’s consulting division is stepping up its game in artificial intelligence with the launch today of a new service that can help enterprises automate key business processes with AI agents on their cloud platform of choice. AI Integration Services is an IBM Consulting service that will, in the company’s own words, help customers build […]

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Decentralized protocol leaders join forces to launch HumanAIx AI infrastructure alliance

Kyt Dotson — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 12:00:36 +0000

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 […]

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Baseten grabs $75M to crank up high-performance inference for AI workloads

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:29:11 +0000

BaseTen Labs Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that’s focused on high-performance inference for large language models and other AI applications, said today it has closed on a $75 million Series C funding round led by IVP and Spark Capital. The round, which also saw participation from Greylock, Conviction, South Park Commons, 01 Advisors and Lachy […]

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OpenEvidence raises $75M to become the ChatGPT for doctors

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:20:52 +0000

The healthcare focused chatbot startup OpenEvidence has closed on $75 million in funding from the venture capital firm Sequoia Capital Operations LLC in a round that values it at more than $1 billion. The round, which came to light today via CNBC, brings OpenEvidence’s total amount raised to more than $100 million, with earlier funding […]

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Why AI success starts with data readiness: Insights from Alteryx CEO Andy MacMillan

Victoria Gayton — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:57:36 +0000

The rise of artificial intelligence is driving a foundational shift in how organizations approach AI data readiness and structure their data. Historically, data has been siloed by department or business application, but as AI-driven insights become more sophisticated, organizations must take a more integrated approach. Yet, simply integrating data isn’t enough — organizations must prepare […]

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Google researchers develop AI co-scientist based on Gemini 2.0

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:25:48 +0000

Google LLC today introduced a new artificial intelligence tool designed to help researchers study scientific phenomena more efficiently. The company describes the tool as an AI co-scientist. It’s powered by Gemini 2.0, the latest iteration of Google’s flagship large language model family. The LLMs in the series can process multimodal data and have a tool […]

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Sanas gets $65M in funding to expand its real-time accent translation software

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:40:37 +0000

Sanas.AI Inc., a real-time accent translation startup that helps non-native speakers speak more clearly, said today it has raised $65 million in a Series B round of funding. The round brings Sanas’s total amount raised to north of $100 million. It was led by Quadrille Capital and saw participation from investors such as Insight Partners, […]

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Augury raises $75M for AI-driven industrial equipment health and repair process optimization

Kyt Dotson — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:00:09 +0000

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 […]

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Box adds agentic AI features and makes it easier for customers to track AI spending

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:00:52 +0000

Box Inc., the content management company that helps organizations to manage their files in the cloud, says it’s expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities to more users and adding a new mechanism for tracking AI-related costs, so customers can keep tabs on their spending. The announcement came as the company released yet more AI features into […]

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Sawmills raises $10M to cut down observability data costs with AI

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:30:43 +0000

Telemetry data management startup Sawmills.AI Ltd. says it’s hoping to help enterprises shave millions of dollars off their observability software bills after raising a fair few million itself. Today it announced it’s closing on a “highly oversubscribed” $10 million seed funding round led by Team8, with participation from Mayfield and Alumni Ventures. In addition, Sawmills […]

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Sonar buys AutoCodeRover to enhance its code quality tools with autonomous AI agents

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:00:35 +0000

Code quality testing startup SonarSource SA said today it has acquired AutoCodeRover, the creator of an autonomous artificial intelligence platform for software developers. According to Sonar, the deal will enable its customers to automate tasks such as debugging and issue remediation, so they can spend more time on improving their applications rather than fixing them. […]

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Securiti and Databricks partner to ease AI application development

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:00:02 +0000

Startup Securiti Inc. and Databricks Inc. today announced a partnership focused on helping joint customers develop artificial intelligence applications. The collaboration will see Securiti integrate its Gencore AI tool with two components of Databricks’ popular cloud data platform. The first is the Delta table data format, while the other is the Mosaic AI toolkit for […]

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HP to acquire assets from ‘Ai Pin’ maker Humane in $116M deal

Duncan Riley — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:07:44 +0000

HP Inc. today announced that it will acquire assets from Humane Inc., the maker of an artificial intelligence-powered smart pin, for $116 million. Humane burst onto the AI scene in November 2023 with the launch of a device known as the “Ai Pin” that sold for $699. The device (pictured), which was worn by users […]

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Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati launches Thinking Machines Lab

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:30:15 +0000

Former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati today launched a new artificial intelligence startup, Thinking Machines Lab Inc., that will develop multimodal models. The company is entering the crowded AI market four months after Reuters reported that Murati (pictured) was in talks to raise more than $100 million for a new venture. Thinking Machines Lab […]

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Marketing analytics startup Hightouch reels in $80M at $1.2B valuation

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:01:12 +0000

Marketing software startup Hightouch today announced that it has closed a $80 million funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation. Sapphire Ventures led the Series C investment. It was joined by Bain Capital Ventures, which led Hightouch’s previous $38 million funding round, Y Combinator and several other institutional backers. The raise follows a year in […]

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British legaltech startup Luminance raises $75M for contract AI assistant

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:10:49 +0000

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, […]

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Elon Musk’s xAI unveils Grok-3 with advanced reasoning capabilities

Kyt Dotson — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:20:19 +0000

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 […]

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