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03 Jun

Aporia introduces real-time guardrails for multimodal AI applications – SiliconANGLE

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Machine learning observability startup Aporia Technologies Ltd. today launched Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications, a new service that extends its existing artificial intelligence guardrails solution to include guardrails for vision and audio. Claimed to be a first-of-its-kind solution, Guardrails for Multimodal AI Applications is designed to mitigate issues in video and audio-based AI applications, such as hallucinations, wrong responses, compliance violations and jailbreak attempts. Multimodal AI is an AI system that can simultaneously process and interpret multiple types of data inputs, such as text, images, audio and video. The new service’s release follows OpenAI’s launch of its flagship multimodal GPT-4o model on…

03 Jun

Maven AGI unveils AI platform after securing $20M for global expansion – SiliconANGLE

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Artificial intelligence startup Maven AGI Inc. today launched with $20 million in funding to expand its engineering, marketing and partnership teams. Founded in 2023, Maven AGI debuts with a platform that is designed to transform enterprise customer support through generative AI. The company’s platform is said to reimagine customer service from the ground up by delivering personalized user experiences with accuracy and efficiency. The platform offers native generative AI, AI agents, in-house technology and accuracy to autonomously resolve more than 93% of customer inquiries. In doing so, Maven AGI claims that its platform cuts support costs by 81% and enhances…

03 Jun

Hydrolix raises $35M to expand streaming data lake operations and partner network – SiliconANGLE

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Streaming data lake platform startup Hydrolix Inc. today announced that it has raised $35 million in new funding to fuel product development, expand sales operations and implement a partner program. Founded in 2018, Hydolix offers a streaming data lake platform designed to transform the economics of log data. A streaming data lake platform is a data management architecture that allows for the storage, processing and analysis of data in real-time as it flows into the system, without needing to store it first in a database. Hydrolix’s platform offers a combination of stream processing, decoupled storage, high-density compression and indexed search to…

02 Jun

OpenAI disrupts international influence operations using its AI tools – SiliconANGLE

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OpenAI revealed in a blog post today that it identified and disrupted five covert influence operations in the last three months that were attempting to manipulate public opinion or influence political outcomes. The influence campaigns disrupted by OpenAI are claimed to have come from Russia, China, Iran and, surprisingly, Israel, although the Israeli campaign was linked to a company rather than the government. The campaigns spanned multiple tasks, including generating content in various languages, creating fake social media profiles and conducting research. The key to an influence campaign is to generate content that seeks to manipulate public opinion or political…

20 May

Brazilian data and AI consultancy Indicium raises $40M for US expansion – SiliconANGLE

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Brazilian data and artificial intelligence consultancy startup Indicium today announced that it had raised $40 million in new funding to expand its operations in the U.S. Founded in 2017, Indicium helps enterprises become “data-driven” using modern data stacks such as those provided by Amazon Web Services Inc., Databricks Inc., Google Cloud and Snowflake Inc. The company can support organizations at every stage of their journey, from strategy and execution to training, so they can become data-driven and AI-enabled. Indicium has successfully implemented its framework in more than 120 projects and deployed more than 200 AI and machine learning models in…