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The AI coding assistant Cursor has secured $100 million in Series B funding, reaching a post-money valuation of $2.6 billion. According to Marina Temkin of TechCrunch, the funding round was led by returning investor Thrive Capital, with Andreessen Horowitz also participating. The investment comes just four months after Cursor’s $60 million Series A round. The …
Backflip has developed an AI-powered platform that converts text prompts, sketches, and photos into 3D designs. As reported by Charles Rollet for TechCrunch, the startup has secured $30 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and New Enterprise Associates. The technology aims to simplify computer-aided design, reducing hours of specialized work to minutes. …
Google has released a new artificial intelligence model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental, designed to enhance reasoning capabilities in complex problem-solving tasks. The model, available through Google’s AI Studio platform, is described by the company as being optimized for multimodal understanding, reasoning, and coding across fields including programming, math, and physics. The new model …
Stability AI has released its latest text-to-image generation model, Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large, on Amazon’s Bedrock service. As reported by Sean Michael Kerner for VentureBeat, this marks AWS as the only public cloud service offering Stability AI’s flagship models. The integration allows enterprises to access multiple AI models through a single unified API, meeting the …
Startup Patronus AI has developed a breakthrough AI evaluation model that achieves comparable results to much larger systems while using significantly fewer computational resources. As reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat, the new open-source model named Glider uses only 3.8 billion parameters yet matches or exceeds the performance of GPT-4 on key benchmarks. The model …
Salesforce has introduced Agentforce 2.0, a significant upgrade to its artificial intelligence platform that enables AI agents to perform complex reasoning and autonomous actions in enterprise environments. As reported by Michael Nuñez for VentureBeat, the new system represents a major shift from traditional chatbots to more sophisticated AI assistants. The platform’s core innovation is the …
OpenAI has introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT through a toll-free number (1-800-CHATGPT) and WhatsApp messaging service. According to the company’s official explanation, users in the United States and Canada can now call 1-800-242-8478 to speak with ChatGPT, while international users can access the service via WhatsApp messaging. The service is available without …
Google has introduced FACTS Grounding, a new benchmark system to evaluate how accurately large language models (LLMs) use source material in their responses. The benchmark comprises 1,719 examples across various domains including finance, technology, and medicine. The FACTS team at Google DeepMind and Google Research developed the system, which uses three frontier LLM judges – …
IBM has released a new version of its open-source large language models, Granite 3.1, featuring significant improvements in performance and capabilities. According to reporting by Sean Michael Kerner for VentureBeat, the new models offer extended context length and integrated hallucination detection. The Granite 8B Instruct model reportedly outperforms similar-sized competitors including Meta Llama 3.1 and …
OpenAI has made its advanced o1 artificial intelligence model available to third-party developers through its API. According to an article by Carl Franzen in VentureBeat, this release represents a significant advancement in making sophisticated AI technology accessible to developers. The o1 model, first announced in September 2024, differs from traditional large language models by incorporating …