Lakera launched with $10M in funding that it plans to invest in protecting enterprises from some of the best-known LLM exploits, such as prompt injection and hallucinations. Furthermore, as part of their work on AI security, the startup co-founders served as advisors for the EU AI Act.
TitanML is a London-based company that aims to make LLM deployment accessible to enterprise teams of all sizes. Their product, Takeoff, helps ML teams implement best practices that positively impact the cost-effectiveness of their deployments.
The 2023 State of AI Report has just been released, containing an in-depth analysis of the current situation in the field spanning from research and industry to politics and safety. The report also features the team's prediction for the most exciting developments to be seen in the following year.
Join the Data Phoenix webinar in which Dmytro Spodarets and guest Xinyun Chen (Research Scientist at Google DeepMind) will talk about large language models for code generation.
Gradient recently emerged from stealth with $10M raised from Wing VC and other contributors. The startup lets enterprises train and deploy multiple domain-specific models to harness the power of generative AI in a user-friendly and cost-effective manner.
Lemurian Labs is taking a risk by planning to redesign AI computing to make it more effective, sustainable, and affordable for everyone. The company recently secured $9M in seed funding destined to release the software part of its stack.
Canva increased its text-to-image offerings by incorporating DALL-E and Image into its image-generation app collection. These two image generators join the latest version of Canva's Magic Media, powered by Stable Diffusion. The apps are available with restrictions for free and Pro subscribers.
Orquesta had a successful pre-seed funding round, bringing home 800,000 EUR for the development of their innovative no-code platform for LLM integration into collaborative business operations. Orquesta's offerings will be mainly directed at the European market.
Elicit, the AI-powered research assistant born at Ought, is now an independent public benefit corporation. After raising $9M in funding, they plan to keep on developing their service and expand their team.
Nexusflow has secured a $10.6 M seed funding round. This will enable it to deliver AI-powered cybersecurity solutions for enterprises like Nexusflow Copilot, an assistant for enterprise security teams.
Greg Loughnane and Chris Alexiuk will discuss how to use hierarchical embeddings to return relevant context from a large dataset, as measured by context precision and context recall via the RAG ASsessment framework, and also show the impact of fine-tuning the embedding model on retrieval metrics.
Anthropic is leveling up in the generative AI race by partnering with Amazon. The company behind Claude committed to expanding its support of the Amazon Bedrock API, and to primarily using AWS as its cloud provider. Amazon will get a minority stake in Anthropic for up to $4 billion in funding.