OpenAI rival Anthropic is releasing a powerful new generative AI model called Claude 3.5 Sonnet. But it’s more an incremental step than a monumental leap forward. Claude 3.5 […]
‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees
Wordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The startup targets in-house legal teams and law […]
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company
Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, has launched a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just a month after leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, who was OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist, […]
Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine
Move over, Perplexity. There’s a new AI-powered search engine in town — and its creators think it can best the many, many other attempts out there. Called Genspark, […]
How gamification sparked the AI era in tech
A look at how the fun side of AI lit the fuse of the latest tech boom.
Amazon says it’ll spend $230 million on generative AI startups
Amazon says that it will commit up to $230 million to startups building generative AI-powered applications. The investment, roughly $80 million of which will fund Amazon’s second AWS […]
Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI raises $640 million
Mistral AI has closed its much rumored Series B funding round with General Catalyst leading the round. The company has secured €600 million (around $640 million at today’s […]
Cognigy lands cash to grow its contact center automation business
Philipp Heltewig, who was CIO at marketing firm Sitecore before it was sold to private equity group EQT in 2016, joined forces with Sascha Poggemann and Benjamin Mayr […]