Search Results for: OpenAI

October 10, 2024 @ 9:52 am By Michael Wong  |  

American artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI announced its expansion into Singapore, confirming plans to open a regional office later this year. This move underscores Singapore’s prominent role in technology and AI, as well as the increasing demand for advanced AI tools across the Asia Pacific… Read More

July 23, 2024 @ 5:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Relay, the provider of communications compliance solutions for regulated industries, announces its integration between OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise Compliance API and Global Relay’s financial compliance platform. The new compliance capabilities launched by OpenAI in conjunction “with Global Relay’s platform will help customers use OpenAI’s Enterprise… Read More

May 23, 2024 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After years at the forefront of projects and research based on artificial intelligence (AI), BBVA takes a “decisive step” in the use of generative AI in its main markets. On the one hand, it has prioritized “around 100 projects that will be developed with different… Read More

October 1, 2023 @ 11:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

France-based Mistral AI recently revealed its first generative artificial intelligence (AI) model in order to compete with US rivals in AI (which includes Meta Platforms Inc. and Microsoft Corportation-supported OpenAI). The Paris-headquartered firm is introducing a small-scale language model with around 7 billion parameters which… Read More

September 28, 2023 @ 10:59 am By Michael Wong  |  

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is considering selling existing shares at a much higher valuation to investors, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The report said the deal could value OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, at between $80 billion and $90… Read More

September 18, 2023 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trade Ledger announces it will launch a new solution integrating Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service designed exclusively for Business Owners, CFOs and Financial Directors in small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). SMBs often don’t have the resources or in-house expertise “to access and understand information to optimize… Read More

July 5, 2023 @ 10:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

VC activity ticked up in Q1 based on OpenAI’s unconventional corporate investment from Microsoft, according to an update from Pitchbook. Pitchbook has reportedly tracked $22.7 billion in investment during the quarter, “including $12.7 billion from generative AI investments including OpenAI.” If OpenAI’s deal is excluded,… Read More

June 7, 2023 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  Meanwhile, the first and only life insurer entirely denominated in a cryptocurrency has announced ~$19 million in financing across two seed rounds, the first co-led by Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Lachy Groom, previous head of Stripe issuing, and with Gradient Ventures (Google)… Read More

May 19, 2023 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Public, an investing platform that allows members to invest in stocks, treasuries, ETFs, crypto, and alternative assets, announced the rollout of Alpha, a project to enhance your investing experience with artificial intelligence powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Alpha reportedly “reduces the time retail investors spend researching… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 7:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ocrolus, a key player focused on AI-driven document automation for faster and more accurate lending decisions, announced it has integrated GPT embeddings from OpenAI into its set of technologies. The addition of OpenAI GPT embeddings “strengthens Ocrolus’ ability to process semi-structured and unstructured documents, such… Read More

March 16, 2023 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced OpenAI has chosen Stripe to power payments as it “moves to commercialize its groundbreaking ChatGPT and DALL·E generative AI technologies.” Stripe is also “incorporating OpenAI’s new natural language technology, GPT-4, into its products and services.” Peter Welinder,… Read More

March 9, 2023 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex announced it will be launching advanced AI-powered tools for CFOs and their teams, all built “using advanced machine learning and natural language processing technology from OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company.” The new features will “provide relevant insights on corporate spend and answer… Read More

June 13, 2015 @ 3:32 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Glimmering just ahead, summer offers the hope of beach days, picnics, hikes, ice cream until it hurts and, if the petsitter is available, travel. The minor (major) hassles of transportation–airplane delays or cancellations, a sea of brake lights–will be worth it. Certainly. But if one could reduce… Read More

November 3, 2024 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CBInsights has released the latest State of AI Q3’24 Report. CBInsights noted that the quarterly AI (artificial intelligence) deal count surged to reach “highest” level since Q1’22 peak. In Q3’24, CBInsights revealed that the global AI deal count surged “24% QoQ to reach 1,245 —… Read More

October 27, 2024 @ 4:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Security platform Socket recently confirmed a $40 million Series B round. It was led by Abstract Ventures, with participation from Elad Gil, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Bret Taylor (OpenAI), Phil Venables (Google), Scott Johnston (Docker), Christina Cacioppo (Vanta), Ann Mather (Pixar, Alphabet, Netflix, Airbnb), and Tobias… Read More

October 22, 2024 @ 10:09 pm By Michael Wong  |  

DataCrunch, a European provider of artificial intelligence (AI) computing infrastructure, has secured €12 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm byFounders. The investment aims to bolster the company’s infrastructure as it strives to become Europe’s first hyperscaler, enhancing service delivery for… Read More

October 21, 2024 @ 9:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

People have long sought to declutter their homes. A more recent trend is doing the same with their online lives. Yorba helps them do that while offering benefits like money savings, improved online security, and a cleaner email inbox. Yorba has expanded into Canada. The company has linked… Read More

October 21, 2024 @ 8:54 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AI accounting automation platform Numeric has raised a $28 million Series A round. It was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from new investors IVP and Socii Capital, and existing investors Founders Fund, 8VC, Long Journey, Access Industries, Friends & Family Capital, and others. This investment will accelerate engineering hiring and product development. In the past year,… Read More

October 13, 2024 @ 7:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldcoin recently shared a key project update in San Francisco. As explained in a blog post, the Worldcoin initiative has reportedly been created (in 2019) in order to accelerate “humanity” in the age of AI. According to its developers, the project has now grown and… Read More

October 7, 2024 @ 9:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

EXL [NASDAQ: EXLS], a data analytics and digital operations and solutions company, has launched EXL Insurance LLM, an industry-specific large language model. Building on EXL’s recently announced initiative with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the EXL Insurance LLM is an industry-specific LLM created to support critical claims and underwriting-related… Read More