For enterprise data teams, GenAI expectations are sky-high, and a new survey finds that management often leads the charge. A quarter of executives (25 percent) say their leaders will greenlight any project “with AI as a core component,” while the largest group (44 percent) are a bit more ….
Together AI Cloud Raises $305M Series B
February 20, 2025 by
SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, 2025 — AI acceleration cloud complany Together AI announced a $305 million Series B investment led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7. The round saw participation from institutional and strategic investors including Salesforce Ventures, DAMAC Capital, NVIDIA, Kleiner Perkins, March Capital, Emergence Capital, Lux Capital, SE Ventures, Greycroft, Coatue, Definition, Cadenza […]
British Business Investments Commits £10M to Twin Path Ventures for UK AI
February 20, 2025 by
20th February 2025, London — Twin Path Ventures, a UK pre-seed investor in AI-first startups, has received support from British Business Investments for its strategy to invest in UK-based tech founders building and launching AI-powered solutions. British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank has committed £10 million alongside Twin Path Ventures […]
Generative Imaging AI Will Use Game Engines and Synthetic Data to Train Models
February 19, 2025 by
Imagine an AI capable of transforming a single photograph into a living, breathing scene. Change the lighting, the weather, or even the camera angle with just a few clicks. This is not a distant dream; it is the future of generative imaging AI — and its foundation ….
SambaNova Reports Fastest DeepSeek-R1 671B with High Efficiency
February 18, 2025 by
Palo Alto, CA – Generative AI company SambaNova announced last week that DeepSeek-R1 671B is running today on SambaNova Cloud at 198 tokens per second (t/s), “achieving speeds and efficiency that no other platform can match,” the company said. DeepSeek-R1 has reduced AI training costs by 10X, but its widespread adoption has been hindered by […]
Sama Launches Agentic Capture for Multi-Modal Agentic AI
February 18, 2025 by
SAN FRANCISCO, February 18, 2025 – Sama, developer of enterprise AI solutions with agile data labeling for model development and supervised fine-tuning, today announced the launch of Agentic Capture, a feedback framework for multi-modal agentic AI. Built on Sama’s configurable capture platform, this new framework is capable of managing the types of multi-modal, complex use cases […]
News Bytes Podcast 20250217: Arm Selling Its Own Chips to Meta?, Big xAI, Big Power, Big… Pollution?, TSMC in Intel Fab Takeover?, Europe’s Big AI Investment
February 17, 2025 by
A happy mid-winter day to you! The HPC-AI world produced its usual extraordinary onslaught of news this past week, here’s a quick (7:27) jaunt through recent developments: Arm to sell its own server CPU – with Meta as first customer?, Big AI, Big Power … Big Pollution?
Massachusetts Launches Flagship AI Models Innovation Challenge, $2M in Funding
February 13, 2025 by
The Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s (MassTech) Innovation Institute announced the launch of the Massachusetts (MA) AI Models Innovation Challenge, a flagship initiative under the newly established Massachusetts AI (Artificial Intelligence) Hub.
Digihost to Develop HPC and AI-Tier Data Centers
February 11, 2025 by
MIAMI, Feb. 11, 2025 — Digihost Technology Inc. announced the formation of US Data Centers, Inc. (USDC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company dedicated to development of high-performance computing- and artificial intelligence-focused data centers. With the launch, Digihost said it is creating a dedicated platform focused on delivering AI and HPC solutions, ensuring purpose-built infrastructure […]
MLCommons Releases AILuminate LLM v1.1 with French Language Capabilities
February 11, 2025 by
Paris – February 11, 2025: MLCommons, in partnership with the AI Verify Foundation, today released v1.1 of AILuminate, incorporating new French language capabilities into its first-of-its-kind AI safety benchmark. The new update – which was announced at the Paris AI Action Summit – marks the next step towards a global standard for AI safety and comes as […]
