Glean aims to help employees surface info across sprawling enterprise systems
Glean, a startup developing a platform to help surface files and other important data across disparate enterprise systems, has raised $100 million in...
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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform
Heartex, a data labeling firm, has raised $25 million in a venture funding round, bringing its total raised to $30 million.
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ZMO.ai secures $8M led by Hillhouse to create AI generated fashion models
With breakthroughs in machine learning, it’s no longer uncommon to see algorithmically generated bodies that can move and talk authentically...
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Tractian, which uses AI to monitor industrial equipment, raises $15M
Tractian, which uses AI to monitor and predict the status of industrial equipment, has raised $15M in a venture funding round.
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Virtual product placement ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video and Peacock
Announced at this month’s NewFronts, Amazon and Peacock demonstrated new ad formats that use similar virtual product placement (VPP) tools, a...
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AI-powered construction management platform Buildots lands $60M
Buildots, a startup developing a construction management platform powered in part by AI and computer vision, has raised $60 million in venture...
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To win insurtech 2.0, focus on underwriting before growth
Focusing on customer experience on the front end leads to rapid growth indeed, but failing to focus on underwriting on the back end can lead to a...
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DOJ warns that misuse of algorithmic hiring tools could violate accessibility laws
AI tools for the hiring process have become a hot category, but the Department of Justice warns that careless use of these processes could lead to...
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Inflection AI, led by LinkedIn and DeepMind co-founders, raises $225M to transform computer-human interactions
Inflection AI, the startup co-founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and founding DeepMind member Mustafa Suleyman, has raised $225 million in...
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DeepMind’s new AI can perform over 600 tasks, from playing games to controlling robots
Alphabet-backed research lab DeepMind created an AI system, Gato, that can perform hundreds of tasks ranging from controlling a robot to analyzing...
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Synergies raises $12M to give factory managers an AI analytics assistant
There’s no lack of startups around the world trying to make industrial activities more efficient with artificial intelligence. Some invent...
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Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully-managed PostgreSQL database service
Google today announced the launch of AlloyDB, a new fully-managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service that the company claims to be twice as fast...
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Google details its latest language model and AI Test Kitchen, a showcase for AI research
During its first keynote at Google I/O 2022, Google detailed its latest language model, LaMDA 2, and an app called AI Test Kitchen.
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Slack’s former head of machine learning wants to put AI in reach of every company
Adam Oliner, co-founder and CEO of Graft used to run machine learning at Slack, where he helped build the company’s internal artificial...
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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models
Predibase, a startup developing a low-code platform for building, training, and deploying AI systems, has raised $16.25M in venture funding to fuel...
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Arrikto expands it MLOps platform with Kubeflow as a Service
Arrikto’s mission is to enable data scientists to build and deploy their machine learning models faster. The company, which raised a $10...
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The market for synthetic data is bigger than you think
To understand what's happening, but also what's coming if synthetic data does get more broadly adopted, we talked to various CEOs and VCs...
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OtterTune, which taps AI to optimize databases, raises $12M
A startup using AI and machine learning to optimize database performance, OtterTune has raised $12 million in a venture funding round led by Intel...
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Daily Crunch: PayPal Ventures leads $50M Series B for Egyptian fintech Paymob
Hello friends and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.
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Brightseed’s first AI-detected ‘phytonutrient’ comes to market alongside a $68M A round
Who knows what secrets await in the hearts of plants? Brightseed has found a couple of them, anyway, using an AI-based analysis method and will be...
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Hugging Face reaches $2 billion valuation to build the GitHub of machine learning
Hugging Face 🤗 has closed a new round of funding. It’s a $100 million Series C round with a big valuation. Following today’s funding round,...
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Perceptron: AI bias can arise from annotation instructions
Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to...
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All the tech that got our attention at F1 Miami Grand Prix
All eyes are on Miami this weekend as the international glitterati arrives for the city’s inaugural Formula One Grand Prix. The European racing...
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ESPN+ debuts ‘McEnroe vs. McEnroe’, the first-ever tennis match between a real person and their virtual avatar
Premiering on May 7 at 10 PM ET on ESPN+, Michelob Ultra, in collaboration with tech and production company Unit 9, presents “McEnroe vs....
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Ava sets the example for universal live captioning and raises $10M to keep building
Ava's tools provide instant captions for any voice the user hears, whether that's in a video call, on a Tiktok video or out with friends.
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Make human services more accessible without losing the ‘human’ touch
Utilizing AI and automation tools to enhance the delivery of human services can make exclusive services available to more people. For this to happen,...
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Edge Delta rakes in $63M for its distributed approach to data observability
Databases are growing at an exponential rate these days, and so when it comes to real-time data observability, organizations are often fighting a...
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Perceptron: AI mixes concrete, designs molecules, and thinks with space lasers
Welcome to Perceptron, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup of AI news and research from around the world. Machine learning is a key technology in...
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