The robotaxi industry is facing challenges as Waymo issued its second voluntary recall due to a collision involving one of its vehicles, and GM injected $850 million into Cruise to sustain operations after the company had to ground its entire fleet following an accident involving a pedestrian.
As NVIDIA's market cap crosses $3T and major tech giants develop their AI chips to reduce reliance on NVIDIA, South Korean fabless AI chip startups Rebellions and Sapeon are merging to better compete against global rivals in the rapidly growing AI hardware market.
Benchling, a leading provider of R&D cloud software for the biotech industry, has partnered with Sanofi to transition over 1,500 scientists to Benchling's digital R&D Cloud platform, enabling Sanofi to aggregate complex data, accelerate research processes, and harness AI across the R&D lifecycle.
Mistral AI has secured a massive Series B funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from selected top investors. The funding will allow Mistral to expand its computing capacity, grow its team, and strengthen strategies to take on its competitors.
Databricks has open-sourced its Unity Catalog, calling it the industry's first open-source catalog for unified data and AI governance across clouds, data formats, and data platforms. The Unity Catalog enables several groundbreaking features while garnering ecosystem support.
MLCommons released MLPerf Training v4.0 showcasing major performance gains. Remarkably, NVIDIA set new records using software optimizations on its Hopper architecture. MLPerf Training 4.0 introduces novel benchmarks for LoRA-based fine-tuning and graph neural network training.
Google's latest Feature Drop brings Gemini Nano to Pixel 8 and 8a phones as a developer option, enabling enhanced transcription capabilities in the Recorder app. The June Feature Drop also introduces Car Crash Detection on Pixel Watch 2 and delivers smart home control upgrades across Pixel devices.
One year after acquiring Mosaic ML, Databricks is announcing significant updates and enhancements to the platform, which include new building and deployment, evaluation and governance tools to ensure enterprises can efficiently turn state-of-the-art models into compound AI systems.
Apple is introducing Apple Intelligence, a personal AI system that deeply integrates generative AI to provide intelligent writing assistance, custom image/emoji creation, enhanced photo capabilities, and a redesigned Siri experience - all powered by a privacy-protecting architecture.
NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Microsoft are under investigation by US authorities; NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD revealed their product roadmaps at Computex 2024; Storyblok raised $80M; Raspberry Pi launched an AI Kit; CoreWeave will expand into Europe; Stability AI launched a sound effects generator; and much more.
The US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have agreed to investigate Microsoft, OpenAI, and NVIDIA over potential violations of antitrust and monopoly laws. The DoJ will review NVIDIA's chipmaking dominance as the FTC scrutinizes Microsoft's investments in AI firms.
Google has upgraded its AI research and writing assistant NotebookLM with the latest Gemini 1.5 Pro language model, added features like Slides and web URL support, and expanded NotebookLM's availability to over 200 countries.