Ideogram has launched Ideogram 2.0, a cutting-edge text-to-image AI model with superior capabilities in realistic image generation and typography, alongside new offerings including an iOS app, API access, and a searchable database of over 1 billion community-generated images.
Skyfire Systems Inc., founded by former Ripple executives, has raised $8.5 million to develop infrastructure enabling AI agents to make autonomous payments, focusing on secure wallet access, verified identity services, and an open payment protocol.
SleekFlow, a Singapore-based provider of AI-powered customer engagement solutions, has secured $7 million in Series A+ funding to accelerate its global expansion, enhance its AI technology, and develop fully automated sales and support journeys across various communication channels.
OpenAI has announced a licensing agreement with Condé Nast to display content on its products, marking a collaborative approach to address content monetization challenges in the era of generative AI, in contrast to other publishers who have pursued legal action against OpenAI.
Logically, a leading provider of AI solutions to combat harmful online content, has acquired Insikt AI to bolster its research and development capabilities, expand its technology portfolio, and deliver a competitive advantage to customers in tackling a broader range of online threats.
Reliant AI, a new generative AI-powered data analytics provider, has launched its first product Reliant Tabular to help the biopharma industry quickly find scientific evidence and accelerate decision-making, backed by $11.3 million in seed funding from Tola Capital and Inovia Capital.
Grok's image generation capabilities have practically zero guardrails; AI features announced in Made by Google 2024; Sakana AI is working on an AI scientist; MIT published an AI risk database; Snowflake launched its Cortex Analyst; Google's AI Overviews are available in more countries; and more.
Midjourney has launched a comprehensive Web Editor that integrates the Remix, Vary Region, Pan, and Zoom functionalities, allowing users to refine AI-generated images and unleash their creativity.
Google is expanding the availability of its AI Overviews to six new countries, introducing new linking capabilities and user-friendly options while reporting increased engagement and focusing on information quality.
CodeRabbit, an AI-powered code review tool, has raised $16 million in Series A funding to expand its team and enhance its product offerings, building on its initial success in addressing manual code review challenges and gaining traction among developers.
Goodfire, a startup developing an AI observability platform that allows developers to visualize and edit AI model behavior, has raised $7 million in seed funding to advance its mechanistic interpretability-based approach to making AI models more transparent and controllable.
Primate Labs has released Geekbench AI 1.0, a comprehensive cross-platform benchmarking tool that measures AI performance across various devices using realistic workloads, multiple scoring dimensions, and accuracy assessments.