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Jessica Rajan / The Economic Times: Mumbai-based Neysa, which offers a suite of generative AI tools to help clients manage their AI projects, raised a $20M seed led by Matrix, Nexus, and NTTVC  —  Neysa, a Mumbai-based artificial intelligence (AI)… Read More »Mumbai-based Neysa, which offers a suite of generative AI tools to help clients manage their AI projects, raised a $20M seed led by Matrix, Nexus, and NTTVC (Jessica Rajan/The Economic Times)

Tris Warkentin / Google for Developers Blog: Google introduces two Gemma variants, CodeGemma to help with code completion and RecurrentGemma to provide researchers faster inference at higher batch sizes  —  In February we announced Gemma, our family of lightweight, state-of-the-art… Read More »Google introduces two Gemma variants, CodeGemma to help with code completion and RecurrentGemma to provide researchers faster inference at higher batch sizes (Tris Warkentin/Google for Developers Blog)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Copenhagen-based Reshape, whose AI-powered robotic imaging system helps track visual changes in lab experiments, raised a $20M Series A led by Astanor Ventures  —  Danish startup grabs $20M in funding to bring more engineering to biology … Read More »Copenhagen-based Reshape, whose AI-powered robotic imaging system helps track visual changes in lab experiments, raised a $20M Series A led by Astanor Ventures (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Josh Ye / Reuters: NetEase says it is working with Microsoft to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the partnership in January 2023  —  Chinese video games giant NetEase (9999.HK) said… Read More »NetEase says it is working with Microsoft to bring World of Warcraft and other Blizzard games back to China after a feud ended the partnership in January 2023 (Josh Ye/Reuters)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly usage of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10%  —  The AR/VR device market has… Read More »Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly usage of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10% (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Google partners with Bayer on an AI product that can flag anomalies within images for radiologists and summarize information from a patient’s medical history  —  Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, speaks at a cloud computing… Read More »Google partners with Bayer on an AI product that can flag anomalies within images for radiologists and summarize information from a patient’s medical history (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Sam Sabin / Axios: Alethea, whose ML service monitors online chatter to help companies detect disinformation, raised a $20M Series B by GV, bringing its total raised to $34M  —  – Heading into the 2024 U.S. elections, the funding will… Read More »Alethea, whose ML service monitors online chatter to help companies detect disinformation, raised a $20M Series B by GV, bringing its total raised to $34M (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in the API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling  —  As enterprise developers and astute company leaders know, the application programming interface (API) is… Read More »OpenAI makes GPT-4 Turbo with Vision generally available in the API, and lets Vision requests use JSON mode and function calling (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe now allows bot creators to set a per-message price for their bots and rolls out enhanced analytics dashboard for creators  —  Bot creators now have a new way to make money… Read More »Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe now allows bot creators to set a per-message price for their bots and rolls out enhanced analytics dashboard for creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel says its next-gen Lunar Lake laptop chips will have 100+ TOPS of performance in AI tasks and elements of Microsoft’s Copilot will soon run locally on PCs  —  45 TOPS for next-gen AI PCs? … Read More »Intel says its next-gen Lunar Lake laptop chips will have 100+ TOPS of performance in AI tasks and elements of Microsoft’s Copilot will soon run locally on PCs (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)