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Exa, an AI research lab, secures $22M in funding to create a search engine designed for AI. Discover how this innovation will transform the search landscape.Article/Blog Structure. Read the full news - https://lnkd.in/dg9WV2UJ #AI #SearchEngine #TechNews #Funding #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Innovation #NVIDIA #YCombinator #TechStartups #FutureOfAI #Exa #AIResearch #techedgeai

Mistral AI Rockets Toward $2 Billion Valuation with Major Funding Bo Mistral AI, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup, is nearing a remarkable $2 billion valuation, poised for a $487 million funding round. Backed by notable investors including Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, and Salesforce Inc., the funding emphasizes strong confidence in Mistral AI's potential. The substantial investments signal the company's significant role in the expanding AI industry, positioning itself as a formidable competitor to OpenAI. This financial backing from industry leaders propels Mistral AI closer to its goal of becoming a dominant force in the AI landscape, showcasing the heightened interest and investments in innovative AI technologies. Arthur Mensch,Timothee Lacroix #MistralAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIStartup #FundingRound #Valuation

Breaking Barriers: SoftBank's Sensational Bet on AI Start-up Graphcore 🚀💼 In a thrilling development, SoftBank stepping up its AI game by acquiring an impressive stake in the illustrious AI chipmaker giants, Graphcore. This move marks an audacious stride in the multinational conglomerate's strategic intent to take a front seat in the AI revolution! 🧠💡 This bold investment scintillates SoftBank's steadfast commitment to nurturing and accelerating businesses that are resetting the parameters for AI potential. With SoftBank's vision, paired with the limitless resources at its disposal, this partnership is poised to amplify the already buzz-worthy trajectory of Graphcore. 🌐🚀 Get ready to witness the power of Graphcore's ground-breaking processors. With the backing of a global tech titan like SoftBank, these exceptional chips are slated to shake up the tech landscape and bring a new era of machine learning capabilities. 💻🔔 The impact of this significant partnership will bring about swift advancements in AI, reshaping the way organizations across the globe leverage machine learning. It's a game-changing move that promises to redefine the horizon of tech and AI! 👏🌟 Is this just the beginning of SoftBank’s recent aggressive global tech acquisition spree? Keep a close watch on this space for more updates! For the full daily episode, be sure to click this link: https://lnkd.in/emEXPn4X. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Graphcore #SoftBank #innovation #machinelearning #AIRevolution 🌍🔮.

I am impressed by #perplexity AI - I have experienced a lower rate of hallucination vs. other LLMs, answers are concise and the ability to find good sources (which are relevant to the query) is fast building my confidence. They are (rightly) obsessed with building a product experience which drives you back time and time again. From a recent finance interview their CEO Aravind said "Our value proposition is that the free product is already so good that you can still use it without having to pay for it, but the paid product is going to be insane" I have been following the company since it founded in August 2022 under the leadership of Aravind Srinivas and it is going from strength to strength. The AI search startup has raised $73.6 million in a funding round led by IVP and including Jeff Bezos, NEA, NVIDIA, Databricks, and Bessemer Venture Partners at a $520 million valuation. This is one to watch. #generativeai Perplexity #dayone #digital https://www.perplexity.ai/

Breaking Barriers: SoftBank's Sensational Bet on AI Start-up Graphcore 🚀💼 In a thrilling development, SoftBank stepping up its AI game by acquiring an impressive stake in the illustrious AI chipmaker giants, Graphcore. This move marks an audacious stride in the multinational conglomerate's strategic intent to take a front seat in the AI revolution! 🧠💡 This bold investment scintillates SoftBank's steadfast commitment to nurturing and accelerating businesses that are resetting the parameters for AI potential. With SoftBank's vision, paired with the limitless resources at its disposal, this partnership is poised to amplify the already buzz-worthy trajectory of Graphcore. 🌐🚀 Get ready to witness the power of Graphcore's ground-breaking processors. With the backing of a global tech titan like SoftBank, these exceptional chips are slated to shake up the tech landscape and bring a new era of machine learning capabilities. 💻🔔 The impact of this significant partnership will bring about swift advancements in AI, reshaping the way organizations across the globe leverage machine learning. It's a game-changing move that promises to redefine the horizon of tech and AI! 👏🌟 Is this just the beginning of SoftBank’s recent aggressive global tech acquisition spree? Keep a close watch on this space for more updates! For the full daily episode, be sure to click this link: https://lnkd.in/eQkQFbYw. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Graphcore #SoftBank #innovation #machinelearning #AIRevolution 🌍🔮.

Implementing generative AI into enterprise environments can be tricky from a data security perspective, especially if you're looking to train your own models, which is likely the next essential step in creating truly innovation AI applications. TitanML is one of several exciting startups founded specifically to help companies develop and run AI models on the company's own hardware. I had a great chat with founders (and old friends) Meryem Arik and Jamie Dborin (PhD) at the Accenture Fintech Innovation Lab last month. Get in touch with them if you want to learn more. #ai #legalinnovation #innovation

Scale AI has raised $1bn at a valuation of about $14bn Scale AI secures $1 billion in latest #funding round, doubling its #valuation to approximately $14 billion. This underscores the growing importance of #data in #AI development, likened to the new oil. Existing investors like Accel, NVIDIA, and Thrive Capital are joined by new backers including Amazon, Meta, Intel Capital, and AMD VENTURES, LLC. Scale AI focuses solely on providing accurately labeled #data rather than building #generativeAI models. The company's #revenues hit around $700 million in 2023, fueled by its pivotal role in supplying labeled data for AI model training. Scale AI CEO, Alexandr Wang, emphasizes the criticality of quality data over sheer quantity for further advancements in AI. The company is actively engaging with both the private sector and the US government, aiming to play a central role in the ongoing tech competition. For more information: https://lnkd.in/dC_zRbzz #ScaleAI #ArtificialIntelligence #DataLabeling #TechInnovation

Contextual AI Raises $80M for Advanced RAG 2.0 Platform - Series A Funding: Contextual AI secured $80 million, led by Greycroft and joined by notable investors, including Nvidia, Snowflake, HSBC, and Bezos Expeditions. - RAG 2.0 Technology: The company’s platform simplifies building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) AI applications, improving data retrieval and response accuracy. - Market Readiness: The platform is set to launch soon, offering both cloud-based and on-premises solutions, with early customers like Qualcomm. Subscribe to our daily newsletter here for more AI news https://lnkd.in/dfgZpH66 #AI #Innovation #Technology #Startups #Entrepreneurship #VentureCapital #Data #BigData #Analytics #Future

It all started with LangChain, and now we have a bunch of companies competing in this space with real customers. Lyzr AI - Focus on Private & Secure GenAI Deployments LangChain - Focus on Opensource GenAI App Development Cohere - Provides APIs for Chat, Summarize Workloads Palantir Technologies - Serving Large Enterprises With AI Builder Platform Scale AI - Serving Startups and Enterprises with Finetuning & RLHF LlamaIndex - RAG Focused Open Source Platform Great to see the enterprise space evolving fast in Generative AI. #enterprise #generativeai

VC investment in AI startups has kept its strong pace, with funding rounds worth an aggregate $1,600M+ recorded in the last two weeks. How are deepfakes and intellectual property infringements starting to be regulated? What are Google, Apple Alibaba.com and other big Tech latest moves? How is AI intertwined in the current geopolitic scene? These and other topics covered in this week's edition of The Artificial Investor: https://shorturl.at/rRXY8 by Seaya's partner Aristotelis Xenofontos