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Dunia raises $11.5M to accelerate electrochemical materials discovery
A startup called Dunia Innovations GmbH, which is pioneering artificial intelligence-powered materials discovery, has announced its ambitious goal to “change the world” after closing on $11.5 million in funding today. The round was led by Elaia and Redalpine, and saw participation from EIC, Pace Ventures, Kindred Capital, Deep Science Ventures, Anglo American and a number ...
AI startup Tennr raises $37M to automate healthcare document processing
The document intelligence-focused healthcare startup Tennr Inc. today announced it has closed on a $37 million funding round. The Series B investment was led by Lightspeed Ventures and saw participation from a16z and Foundation Capital. It brings Tennr’s total amount raised to more than $61 million, coming just six months after it raised $18 million ...
Runway’s Act-One uses smartphone cameras to replicate facial expression motion capture
Runway AI Inc., the generative artificial intelligence startup that builds tools for AI-generated video creation, has launched a new feature to help creators give their AI video characters more realistic facial expressions. Called Act-One, it makes it possible for existing users to record themselves on something as simple as a smartphone camera, capture their facial ...
Qualcomm and Google to collaborate on more intelligent cars with integrated generative AI
Qualcomm Inc. said today at its annual Snapdragon Summit event in Hawaii that it’s working with Google LLC to create more intelligent automotive experiences for car drivers and their passengers. The partnership will see the two companies integrate various technologies, including Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Digital Chassis and Google’s Android Automotive OS software to accelerate digital transformation ...
UiPath is marrying generative AI with robots to accelerate business automation
UiPath Inc. today announced a preview of its upcoming Agent Builder tool as it outlined its vision to combine its expertise in robotic process automation with generative artificial intelligence models and accelerate enterprise automation to the next level. The new tool was unveiled at UiPath’s annual user conference, UiPath Forward 2024 in Las Vegas. The company ...
Asana’s AI Studio promises to transform work management with smart workflows and task automation
Asana Inc., creator of a popular work management and collaboration software platform, is accelerating its artificial intelligence initiatives with the launch of Asana AI Studio. It’s a no-code tool companies can use to create AI agents that can be embedded into workflows they design and deploy anywhere in the Asana platform. The publicly traded company’s ...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset features world’s fastest mobile CPU
Qualcomm Inc. has just announced its newest flagship smartphone chipset with what it says is the fastest mobile central processing unit ever seen on a mobile device. The company unveiled the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor at its annual Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii today, saying it’s the successor to last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. It’s ...
SAP’s stock rises on fast-growing cloud revenue
Shares of the business software company SAP SE were trading higher late today after it reported third-quarter earnings and sales that came in just ahead of the Street’s estimates and raised its full-year outlook for cloud and software revenue. The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of €1.23 per share on ...
Report: AI search startup Perplexity in talks with investors over $500M funding
Perplexity AI Inc., creator of an artificial intelligence-powered search engine platform, is reportedly discussing yet another huge funding round with investors that could increase its valuation to more than $8 billion. In the last year, Perplexity has already closed on three big funding rounds, and its current valuation stands at $3 billion as of this ...
Meta’s Spirit LM generates more expressive voices that reflect anger, surprise, happiness and other emotions
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Fundamental AI Research team is going head-to-head with OpenAI yet again, unveiling a new open-source multimodal large language model called Spirit LM that can handle both text and speech as inputs and outputs. These are the same capabilities that distinguish OpenAI’s most powerful LLM, GPT-4o, as well as other multimodal models such ...