Tesla FSD is rapidly improving and seems to be creating level 4 self driving before our eyes. It is something that is difficult for many to believe and accept. AI systems have a history of not working for a long time and then having improvement that seems sudden to human observers. Once an AI gets
Artificial intelligence startup Symbolica, which develops foundation models to compete with ChatGPT creator OpenAI, announced a $31 million series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures on Tuesday. General Catalyst, Abstract Ventures and Buckley Ventures also participated in the round, the company said. Symbolica has created a framework that will enable it to develop alternatives to the transformer deep learning architecture, said Symbolica CEO George Morgan, who formerly worked at Tesla on...
Medulance, an emergency healthcare services startup, has raised $3 million in Series A funding, led by Alkemi Growth Capital.The funding round also saw participation from investors such as Dexter Capital, Boat founder Aman Gupta, and Emcure Pharmaceuticals’ executive director Namita Thapar. The New Delhi-based startup has raised fresh capital after running as a profitable bootstrapped company for six years, it said in the statement.The funds will be used to increase its presence across the...
A family in British Columbia is taking the phrase "rat race" literally. Inspired by a University of Richmond study (previously at Boing Boing) that found teaching rats to drive tiny cars decreased the critter's stress hormones, they gave their two male rescue rats, Kuzko and Kronk, their own wheels and driving lessons. — Read the rest
This effort from Google and Nvidia could be a major game-changer for startups that have been lagging due to the high costs associated with AI technologies and other related barriers.
Qureight, a Cambridge-based health tech company that develops digital infrastructure for complex medical data, has raised $8.5m (£6.8m). The company was founded in response to the limited treatment options for complex heart and lung diseases. According to Qureight, part of the problem is that researchers have to manually extract important information from large volumes of […]
Just over a year after rolling out its AI DJ feature, Spotify on Sunday introduced another AI-powered feature: AI Playlist. Available in beta first to Premium subscribers in the UK and Australia, AI Playlist lets you enter a text prompt to generate a playlist.Spotify offered examples of descriptive text prompts for some inspiration: "an indie folk playlist to give my brain a big warm hug" and "relaxing music to tide me over during allergy season." The possibilities are endless. You could ask for...
Chip startup Rivos said on Tuesday it raised $250 million in a funding round that will enable it to manufacture its first server chip geared for artificial intelligence. Nvidia's combination of chips and CUDA software dominates the market for AI-related computing, and Nvidia gobbled up more than 80% market share of AI chips in 2023. But a host of startups and chip giants have started to launch competing products, such as Intel's Gaudi 3 and Meta's inference chip - both unveiled last week. Rivos...
AN EV driver who travelled around the world in a record-breaking stunt revealed which country was a total nightmare. Lexie Alford hit 27 countries and six continents in the same amount of months in
Investors close to Elon Musk are in talks to help xAI raise $3 billion in a funding round that could value the startup at $18 billion, sources told the Wall Street Journal.
A new startup is looking to create a standardized test for AI performance. A new startup, Vals. ai, is looking to create a standardized test for measuring artificial intelligence and large language models, intending to create a universal way of testing out AI in specific aspects, as reported by Bloomberg.
Peter Davison leads the cast in a new set of adventures in Doctor Who – The Fifth Doctor Adventures: The Dream Team from Big Finish. Available exclusively from the Big Finish website, this new box-set will have the Fifth Doctor solving a murder, dealing with dream crabs and a whole new ordeal for Turlough. The […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor returns for more Doctor...