As part of a strategic partnership with Perplexity AI, SoftBank is offering its mobile customers a free one-year subscription to Perplexity Pro. Additionally, Perplexity will soon display answers to simple queries in visually appealing cards to keep users within its platform.
Apple announces Apple Intelligence; Microsoft is delaying Recall launch; Meta had to stop model training on European users' data; Robotaxi companies are struggling; Two OpenAI Sora competitors emerged this week; Mistral AI Series B was finally confirmed; and much more.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron-4 340B, an open pipeline of models that allows developers to generate synthetic training data for building custom large language models tailored to various industries without prohibitive data costs.
Brave Software has rolled out an update to its in-browser AI assistant, Leo, enabling it to enhance responses with real-time Brave Search results to provide accurate and up-to-date answers while maintaining robust privacy protections and encouraging users to fact-check sources and explore further.
In two recently published papers, Google researchers presented complementary approaches to fine-tuning LLMs to enable accurate analysis of personal health data and the generation of personalized wellness recommendations, paving the way for AI-powered personal health assistants.
Microsoft decided to delay the broad release of the Recall feature for Copilot+ PCs, initially planned for June 18th, opting instead to first preview it in the Windows Insider Program to gather additional feedback and ensure security and privacy measures meet the company's high standards.
Enveda Biosciences, a company building an advanced search engine for new drugs in the unexplored chemical space, announced a successful $55M Series B2 round to support its platform which helps researchers find multiple molecule candidates for targeted diseases and organs.
Meta has expressed disappointment over the opposition from EU regulators regarding its plans to train LLMs on public European user data. The company argues that its approach complies with laws and regulations, despite concerns over the transparency and legality of its data collection practices.
Luma AI has launched Dream Machine, a transformer model that generates high-quality, physically accurate, and consistent 5-second video shots, offering free (with limitations) and paid tiers for commercial use, capturing users' attention with its availability for public access.
Kling, a new text-to-video generation model developed by Kuaishou Technology, gained significant attention for its impressive capabilities, sparking demand for state-of-the-art video generation tools and potential competition among leading AI companies.
Backed by €228.7M from the German government and €25.7M private investors as part of a major €254.4 million Series A round, Black Semiconductor aims to commercialize its groundbreaking graphene-based chip connectivity technology.
RetailReady, a Y Combinator graduate leveraging AI to help shippers and providers reduce fees for non-compliant shipments to major retailers, recently raised $3.3M in seed funding to grow its team and develop its product, which aims to optimize warehouse packaging compliance processes.