Enterprise

The Rockset buy fits into OpenAI’s broader recent strategy of investing heavily in its enterprise sales and tech orgs.

OpenAI buys Rockset to bolster its enterprise AI

Mistral is no doubt looking to grow revenue as it faces considerable — and growing — competition in the generative AI space.

Mistral launches new services and SDK to let customers fine-tune its models

Databricks, the analytics and AI giant, has acquired data management company Tabular for an undisclosed sum. (CNBC reports that Databricks paid over $1 billion.) According to Tabular co-founder Ryan Blue,…

Databricks acquires Tabular to build a common data lakehouse standard

When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups, they were surprised to find that the companies they worked at were trying…

Deal Dive: Sagetap looks to bring enterprise software sales into the 21st century

Lamini, a new startup with funding from Andrew Ng, has emerged from stealth with a generative AI platform aimed at enterprises.

Dropbox, Figma CEOs back Lamini, a startup building a generative AI platform for enterprises

All-around, highly generalizable generative AI models were the name of the game once, and they arguably still are. But increasingly, as cloud vendors large and small join the generative AI…

Snowflake releases a flagship generative AI model of its own

Dataplor’s “secret sauce” combines technology and public domain data with a human factor, employing over 100,000 people, called Explorers, to validate all the data via computer.

For Dataplor’s data intelligence tool, it’s all about location, location, location

Google has terminated the employment of 28 staff following a prolonged sit-in protest at the company’s Sunnyvale and New York offices. The employees were protesting against Project Nimbus, a $1.2…

Google fires 28 employees after sit-in protest over controversial Project Nimbus contract with Israel

LinkedIn — the social platform that targets the working world — has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and…

LinkedIn testing Premium Company Page subscription with AI-assisted content creation

Organizations are urged to patch their Palo Alto firewalls after researchers discover evidence of malicious exploitation dating back to late March.

Palo Alto Networks’ firewall bug under attack brings fresh havoc to thousands of companies

NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from Portworx, a cloud-native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit. …

NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud-native environments

Companies can identify qualified suppliers from Diagon’s network of equipment suppliers, system integrators and service providers. Then leverage a toolkit to manage those complex projects.

Diagon puts ex-Tesla supply chain muscle to work for small businesses

IT operations personnel have a lot going on, and when an incident occurs that brings down a key system, time is always going to be against them. Over the years,…

BigPanda launches generative AI tool designed specifically for ITOps

Intel and other tech heavyweights say they’ll work together to build open generative AI tools for businesses, as part of a new Linux Foundation organization.

Intel and others commit to building open generative AI tools for the enterprise

It may seem like a paradox to have virtualized Kubernetes clusters. They are, after all, an abstraction in themselves of virtual machines made popular by VMware in the early 2000s.…

Loft Labs brings power of virtualization to Kubernetes clusters

The Overture Maps Foundation today launched the first beta of its global open map dataset. With this, the foundation, which is backed by the likes of Amazon, Esri, Meta, Microsoft…

Overture Maps Foundation releases the first beta of its open map dataset

The long-term goal with Rivos is to build chips primarily for servers that can handle intensive data analytics and AI workloads, including generative AI workloads.

Apple lawsuit behind it, chip startup Rivos plots its next moves

The Tel Aviv-based company recently announced that it has raised an $8 million seed round led by NFX, with participation from FJ Labs and Gefen Capital.

PVML combines an AI-centric data access and analysis platform with differential privacy

A new report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) found that global investment in AI fell for the second year in a row in 2023.

Investors are growing increasingly weary of AI

Companies that offer role referral bonuses do so with the assumption that their employees know their work culture — and a role’s requirements — best. But what if companies were…

Draftboard lets companies list referral bonuses for anyone

OpenAI is expanding to Japan, with the opening of a new Tokyo office and plans for a GPT-4 model optimized specifically for the Japanese language. The move is significant for…

OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese

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Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next

Not to minimize what Google had on display, but the company failed to give all but a passing nod to its core business — except in the context of generative AI, of course.

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Google goes all in on generative AI at Google Cloud Next

Don’t have time to be in Las Vegas? That’s OK: We’ve summed up the most important parts of this year’s Google Cloud Next.

Google Cloud Next 2024: Everything announced so far

Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks, has laid off 382 employees — 32% of its workforce.

Checkr, the background-screening platform last valued at $5B, cuts 32% of workforce

The company, based out of New York with roots in Israel, says its revenue has increased 5x in the last 3 years, and it expects to turn profitable this year.

Guesty snaps up $130M at $900M valuation to help property managers list on Airbnb and beyond

Google says its Axion instances offer 30% better performance than other Arm-based instances from competitors.

Google announces Axion, its first custom Arm-based data center processor

Google is launching Jetstream, a new engine to run generative AI models, and MaxDiffusion, a collection of reference implementations of various diffusion models.

Google open sources tools to support AI model development

All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las…

New Google Vids product helps create a customized video with an AI assist

Its headlining feature is the amount of context that it can process: 1 million tokens, which is equivalent to around 700,000 words or around 30,000 lines of code.

Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro enters public preview on Vertex AI

Agent can take actions based on the conversation, and even interact with back-end transactional systems to take actions in an automated manner.

With Vertex AI Agent Builder, Google Cloud aims to simplify agent creation