AI Index Ep 17: Announcements from OpenAI’s DevDay; Lidl Invests in startup Aleph Alpha; and Carmax integrates a new AI feature.
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Salesforce announces $20 million in grants to fund training and education programs in schools and non-profits, focusing on generative AI and emerging technologies to prepare students and the workforce for the future.
AI Index Report episode 13: Google prepares to launch its Gemini model; Writer secures funding to advance its LLM platform; and Granica announces Chronicle to better analyze data in cloud storage.
AI Index Report episode 12: Treefera provides AI forest analytics platform for carbon credit verification; EY announces EY.AI model; and Baidu launches Ernie Bot.
AI Index episode 11: Bayer partners with Google to optimize drug discovery and clinical trials with AI; Imbue raises $200 million to build advanced AI agents; and Walmart launches generative AI assistant.
Episode 10: PayPal and VISA use AI to reduce payments errors; ConverSight raises funding to build generative AI for enterprises; and Hugging Face launches secure coding assistant.
AI Index episode 8: Dell announces new offerings with generative AI in its hardware; Thomson Reuters acquires legal AI firm for $650 million; and Lookout launches SAIL to enhance security capabilities.
In Ep. 3 of the Acceleration Economy Minute, Kieron references the work of fellow AE cybersecurity analysts who discuss how and why organizations must expand on their approach to defense.
Verusen, Stockly, FindMine and TotalCtrl are all part of SAP.iO’s startup accelerator; all are expanding with customers, wins, or investments.
Innovation is alive and well: Automation Anywhere, SingleStore, Workspan, and Ecocart all secured major financial backing this week.
In My Metaverse Minute, Ep. 168, Kieron Allen shares his thoughts on current opportunities that Metaverse sports platforms are missing out on.
The funded startups run the gamut from AI for fresh produce and ESG risk management to farm management and a buyer of Shopify merchants.
In Cloud Wars Horizon Minute, Ep. 51, Tom Smith shares highlights from this month’s startup funding roundup, including a Shopify merchant buyer, a retail software firm, and metaverse collaboration tools.
In Ep. 144 of My Metaverse Minute, Kieron discusses asset management company Invesco legitimizing the Metaverse through a recently announced $30 million fund dedicated solely to Metaverse infrastructure.
In this special Cloud Wars Horizon interview, Celonis’ Co-CEO discusses a surge in demand for its execution management software as inflation and supply chains challenge customers.
In Cloud Wars Horizon Minute, Ep. 31, Tom Smith covers supply chain, security, and ML startups that recently received big funding rounds.
As venture funding increases in the cloud data management market, these data startups are collectively receiving $498 million in new investments.
As cloud databases reach over $2.9 billion in funding, these 10 database startups are making major contributions to this market.
As the cloud database market continues to rapidly grow, Cockroach Labs becomes the latest to accelerate development with increased funding.