AI data startup WisdomAI has raised another $50M, led by Kleiner, Nvidia 

WisdomAI is offering AI-driven data analytics that can answer business questions from structured, unstructured, and even “dirty” data, meaning data not cleaned of typos or errors.

Anthropic announces $50 billion data center plan

Anthropic has launched an ambitious new data center partnership with the U.K.-based Fluidstack, committing $50 billion to building facilities across the US.

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product

Marble is different from competitors like Odyssey, Decart, and Google’s Genie because it creates persistent, downloadable 3D environments rather than generating worlds on-the-fly as you explore.

Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup

Yann LeCun, a chief AI scientist at Meta, is planning to leave the company to build his own startup, which will focus on continuing his work on world models.

A former physician has launched Robyn, an empathetic AI companion

Robyn wants to position it self as an empathetic chatbot and not as a companion or a therapy app

6sense founder Amanda Kahlow raises $30 million for new human-replacement AI sales startup 1mind

Amanda Kahlow has quietly been back in sales and marketing tech for about a year with agentic startup 1mind.

SoftBank is back, and the AI hype cycle is eating itself

SoftBank and OpenAI announced a new 50-50 joint venture this week to sell enterprise AI tools in Japan under the brand “Crystal Intelligence.” On paper, it’s a straightforward international expansion deal. But SoftBank’s role as a major investor in OpenAI is raising questions about whether AI’s biggest deals are creating real economic value or just moving money in circles. … Continua a leggere SoftBank is back, and the AI hype cycle is eating itself

Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe

Meta says that since the launch of Vibes, media generation in the Meta AI app has jumped more than tenfold.

Subtle Computing’s voice isolation models help computers understand you in noisy environments

Subtle Computing has raised $6 million in seed funding to build voice-isolation models. The startup plans to announce a hardware device next year.

Inception raises $50 million to build diffusion models for code and text

Diffusion models already power AI image generators, but Inception thinks they can be even more powerful applied in software development.