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27 Oct

Data science and AI development platform Zerve raises $7.6M – SiliconANGLE

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Ireland-based Zerve AI Ltd., a data science and artificial intelligence development platform, said today it has raised $7.6 million in a seed round to help data scientists and engineers collaborate faster. The round was led by Paladin Capital Group, with participation from existing investor Elkstone and angels, including Rob Hickey, former executive vice president of DataRobot. Zerve previously raised $3.8 million in pre-seed funding in October last year led by Elkstone. Zerve provides a visual collaboration platform for data teams that simplifies the building, managing and deployment of data and AI workflows. Teams can set up code blocks that pull in…

27 Sep

Tabnine introduces AI agents that generate and validate code from Jira issues – SiliconANGLE

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Tabnine Ltd., the maker of an artificial intelligence code completion tool for developers, today announced the general availability of two AI agents that integrate with Atlassian Corp.’s Jira, which can generate and validate code from issues. Jira issues are a primary source for developers to receive communication about updates needed for code and are often provided in natural language. Issues represent individual work items passed between collaborators with information about the various work to be done. An issue could be a story, a bug, a task or a subtask necessary for doing the developer’s job. For example, a project manager could generate…

27 Sep

Nurix AI raises $27.5M to scale development of custom enterprise AI agents – SiliconANGLE

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Bengaluru, India-based Nurix AI, the developer of custom artificial intelligence agents for enterprise customers, today announced it has raised $27.5 million in early-stage funding. The seed-Series A funding was co-led by General Catalyst and Accel with participation from Merkai Labs. Founded in early 2024, Nurix builds custom AI agents that can execute complex actions on behalf of employees and customers using a company’s tools and systems. Its platform can access enterprise data allowing for real-time responses and uses proprietary voice technology that helps enhance both customer and employee experiences. “AI is at the inflection point with the promise of completely…

27 Sep

Linux Foundation to host AWS’ OpenSearch search and analytics engine – SiliconANGLE

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The Linux Foundation today announced the launch of the OpenSearch Software Foundation, a community-driven initiative that will support the search software, which is used by developers around the world to build search, analytics, observability and vector database applications. Originally hosted by Amazon Web Services Inc., OpenSearch was founded in 2021 as a community-driven initiative, Carl Meadows, director of product for OpenSearch at AWS, told SiliconANGLE in an interview. It was forked from AWS’ Elasticsearch distributed search and and analytics engine service but released under the open-source Apache license. The company is now transferring the project to The Linux Foundation to…

27 Sep

Google Labs adds video and audio input to AI-powered note-taking assistant NotebookLM – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTGoogle Labs adds video and audio input to AI-powered note-taking assistant NotebookLM, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Google LLC today rolled out new features for its artificial intelligence note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM, including the ability to upload videos from YouTube URLs and audio files directly, in addition to text, PDFs, Google Docs and web pages. NotebookLM is an experimental tool from Google Labs that uses the company’s powerful Gemini 1.5 large language model’s multimodal capabilities to enhance note-taking, organize ideas and extract insights from source materials. It allows users to upload multiple sources including numerous documents, now including audio and video. Sources are limited to 500,000 words. Currently, NotebookLM is limited to a maximum of 50…

27 Sep

Open-source data orchestration platform Kestra raises $8M – SiliconANGLE

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Kestra, the maker of a unified open-source data workflow orchestration platform, today announced it has raised $8 million in seed funding to drive the company’s continued expansion across North America and continue its vision to bridge what the company calls the “orchestration gap.” Alven led the round, and ISAI and Axeleo Capital joined alongside notable leaders from across the tech industry. They include Datadog Inc. Chief Executive Olivier Pomel, Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue and Talend S.A. co-founder Bertrand Diard. This fundraising follows the company’s $3 million pre-seed round raised in October 2023. Kestra, a company that took its name from the…

27 Sep

DeepOpinion raises €11 million to assist enterprise businesses with AI agents – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTDeepOpinion raises €11 million to assist enterprise businesses with AI agents, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

DeepOpinion, an Innusbruk, Australia-based company specializing in building artificial intelligence agents to automate business tasks, said today it has raised €11 million, or $12.2 million, in early-stage funding. Co-led by led by Red River West and Alpha Intelligence Capital, the Series A round was also joined by the company’s existing investors Lunar Ventures and Stride VC. DeepOpinion uses its technology to automate back-office business tasks with generative AI large language models and create customizable solutions to improve their knowledge work performance. Its models validate unstructured data from numerous industries such as financial services, insurance, telecommunications and manufacturing to make short work…

27 Sep

Study: Even as larger AI models improve, answering more questions leads to more wrong answers – SiliconANGLE

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A recent study published by Nature says newer, bigger versions of the three major artificial intelligence chatbots may be more likely to generate wrong answers than claim that they don’t know. Although more refined and bigger large language models that use more data and more complex reasoning and fine-tuning proved to be better at giving more accurate responses, they also had another problem: They answered more questions overall. “They are answering almost everything these days,” José Hernández-Orallo at the Valencian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Spain said about the phenomenon. “And that means more correct, but also more incorrect…

29 Aug

Dropbox acquires AI-powered calendar app Reclaim.ai – SiliconANGLE

stp2y0 CommentsChat-GPTDropbox acquires AI-powered calendar app Reclaim.ai, Kyt Dotson, SiliconANGLE

Reclaim.ai Inc., a Portland-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to coordinate schedules with its calendar app, announced Tuesday that it was acquired by file-sharing giant Dropbox Inc. Founded in 2019, Reclaim’s calendaring tool assists with finding the best times for recurring routines, schedules tasks, tracks time and will even buffer breaks for travel and rest between meetings for entire teams and organizations. Reclaim Founders Henry Shapiro and Patrick Lightbody said in an announcement on X that today the app is used by 320,000 users across more than 43,000 companies, including notable companies such as PagerDuty, Zapier and GitHub. Although Dropbox…

28 Aug

Nvidia to present AI and data center performance innovations at Hot Chips conference – SiliconANGLE

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Nvidia Corp. today revealed details about what it will discuss during the Hot Chip 2024 semiconductor technology conference in Cupertino, California, on Monday, which includes advancements to its Blackwell platform, research on liquid cooling for data centers and AI agents for chip design. “Nvidia Blackwell is a platform, the GPU is just the beginning,” said Dave Salvator, director of accelerated computing products at Nvidia. It comprises multiple different Nvidia chips including the Blackwell graphics processing unit, the Grace central processing unit, the Bluefield data processing unit, the ConnextX network interface card, the NVLink Switch, the Spectrum Ethernet switch and the Quantum…