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Collaborative developer tool Multiplayer launches with IT architecture auto-documentation feature
Multiplayer Software Inc., the developer of a collaborative tool for software design of backend systems, announced today that its platform is now generally available after being in beta test mode since February. In addition to the general availability launch, the new toolset includes a beta observability feature for system architecture. This feature automatically documents technical ...
OpenAI acquires enterprise information retrieval startup Rockset
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, today acquired Rockset Inc., a startup known for a high-speed database of the same name designed for information retrieval. The aim is to provide the artificial intelligence company a platform for its customers to better index and query their data. Rockset’s platform enables users, developers and enterprise businesses to rapidly search capabilities ...
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet to raise bar for model intelligence in coding and visual processing
Anthropic PBC today launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the company’s first release in a forthcoming artificial intelligence large language model family that outperforms both competing models and its Claude 3 Opus model, which was introduced three months ago. The AI research startup said the new model comes out of the box operating at twice the speed ...
Daydream raises $50M to change online shopping using personalized AI discovery
Daydream, a startup founded by e-commerce veterans, today announced it has raised $50 million in seed funding to change how people discover products when shopping online, using artificial intelligence to provide a more personalized experience. The massive opener funding round was co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Index Ventures with participation from Alphabet Inc.’s startup investment ...
Materia launches with $6.3M to provide generative AI assistance for public accounting firms
Materia, a comprehensive artificial intelligence platform built for public accounting firms, today launched with more than $6.3 million in funding to help companies deal with the current accounting labor crisis. The round was led by Spark Capital. Other investors also participating in the round included Haystack Ventures, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Exponential Founders Capital and the ...
CuspAI raises $30M for AI-designed materials discovery and evaluation on demand
Applied artificial intelligence startup CuspAI today announced that it has raised $30 million in a seed round to build a platform for AI-driven material design that will assist with the rapid discovery and evaluation of new structures. Based in Amsterdam and Cambridge, CuspAI was founded by Chief AI Officer Professor Max Welling, a former distinguished scientist ...
Researchers introduce OpenVLA, an open-source generalist AI model for robotics tasks
Researchers from Standford University, University of California Berkeley, Google DeepMind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other labs have released OpenVLA, an open-source visual-language-action artificial intelligence model designed for guiding robots based on prompts. For some time now, researchers have been working toward methods of generalizing a way of having robotics better understand the world using VLAs ...
Niantic launches Studio for web-based immersive 3D and mixed reality creation
Augmented and virtual reality platform developer Niantic Inc., the company behind the popular AR game “Pokemon Go,” today announced the launch of a new visual interface for developers that will help them create 3D and mixed reality games with greater ease. The company announced the new free-to-use software development platform, Niantic Studio, during Augmented World ...
Varjo unveils ‘Teleport,’ a service that lets smartphones turn real-world places into VR scenes
Finland-based virtual reality firm Varjo Technology Oy today unveiled Teleport, a brand-new service that will allow users to create 3D environments for spatial computing applications such as virtual reality using only their smartphones. Until now, virtual and mixed reality experiences were cumbersome and difficult to get into VR. Much of building for VR content has ...
D-Wave announces new hybrid quantum solver for commercial applications supporting 2M variables
Quantum computing systems maker D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced the launch of a new commercial hybrid quantum computing system that can solve problems for practical commercial applications by supporting 2 million variables and constraints, double the number of its previous solutions. The announcement, which took place at the company’s Qubits 2024 user conference, revealed that its new ...