Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Two years into the artificial intelligence wave, we thought it would be helpful to speak with an early-stage investor in the sector to get a perspective on what it’s been like to invest in generative AI startups from the get-go. Costanoa’s focus today is applied AI and AI infrastructure, and B2B fintech.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

The launch by SAP of new AI capabilities in its SuccessFactors HCM (human capital management) suite Monday is a case of “better late to the party than never,” according to an analyst with Info-Tech Research Group. This need is only increasing with the prevalence of generative AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Yet another startup hoping to cash in on the generative AI craze has secured an eye-popping tranche of VC funding. Called Fixie , the firm, founded by former engineering heads at Apple and Google, aims to connect text-generating models similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT to an enterprise’s data, systems and workflows.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Of course, it was led by two well-known AI startups — including xAI , which had its second massive haul of cash in just six months. xAI , $5B, artificial intelligence: Generative AI startup xAI raised $5 billion in a funding round valuing it at $50 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 14, 2024

Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) has enabled new possibilities for building intelligent systems. Recent improvements in Generative AI based large language models (LLMs) have enabled their use in a variety of applications surrounding information retrieval.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In fact, we have been at the forefront of embedding AI into our solutions for years. And as part of this, we recently launched SAP Joule , a generative AI assistant that will be embedded throughout the SAP cloud portfolio. However, we at SAP are not entering this race as newcomers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Perplexity is only the latest startup in the generative AI space to attract outsize investor attention. According to a PitchBook report released in March, VCs have steadily increased their positions in generative AI, from $408 million in 2018 to $4.8 billion in 2021 to $4.5 billion in 2022.

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CIO

MARCH 26, 2025

The AI revolution is forcing a modernization of the data center across all industries, says Hardy. New technology became available that allowed organizations to start changing their data infrastructures and practices to accommodate growing needs for large structured and unstructured data sets to power analytics and machine learning.

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CIO

OCTOBER 11, 2023

To overcome these challenges, energy companies are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI large language models (LLM). ResearchandMarkets 1 estimates that the energy and power market spent 3.103 billion USD on AI in 2021. How can AI and generative AI help?

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MAY 14, 2024

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to the emergence of generative AI that can produce human-like novel content such as images, text, and audio. An important aspect of developing effective generative AI application is Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF).

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CIO

MAY 14, 2024

Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The Milford, Conn.-based

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CIO

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 2017-2018, there was recognition across Tractor Supply that we needed to step up our game on the digital front. Youve been a member of the B&G Foods Board since 2018. What opportunities are you seeing with generative AI to help drive continued growth? AI and generative AI have accelerated the journey.

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CIO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But the emergence of generative AI changes everything. He adds, “This is behind the drive to generative AI by the cloud providers. While generative AI is certainly the hottest trend in the cloud market, there are others that CIOs need to be aware of.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

Greg Beltzer has been beta testing key generative AI technologies for the past six months and is eager to capitalize on them when released this spring. My strategy was to put Salesforce at the center,” says Beltzer, who helped launched RBC US’s journey to Microsoft Azure and AWS in 2018 when he joined the company.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Blinkist’s last valuation was $160 million in 2018 , when it raised $18.8 One camp would have you believe that both e-learning and reading (and in particular reading summaries) will be overturned as generative AI grows stronger. “We see generative AI as a big opportunity,” he said.

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CIO

MARCH 20, 2025

In 2018, for every 100 men who received their first promotion to manager in 2018, 79 women were promoted; this year, just 81 women were. As an example, she points to a survey commissioned by AWS that reveals women are eager to upskill in generative AI but many organizations have not provided adequate training.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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CIO

MARCH 30, 2023

The potential for generative AI systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard to transform how businesses work is being realized. Repurposing corporate information assets Companies are drowning in data, with IDC predicting there will be more than a five-fold increase in the data generated by organizations between 2018 and 2025.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

As noted above, ePrivacy also explicitly requires that electronic comms be kept confidential unless the user consents to interception (or unless there’s some national security reason for the surveillance but Zoom training generative AI features doesn’t seem likely to qualify for that).

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CIO

JULY 29, 2024

For instance, “within SAP’s invoice processing, there’s some AI embedded there so we can process and scan some of those invoices in an automated way,” says Wysocki, who expects to leverage AI and generative AI capabilities in its new SaaS ecosystem as those capabilities come online.

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CIO

MAY 30, 2024

Another gen AI application winning over CIOs is its knack for coding, according to Alessio Maffei, ICT manager of Milan-based student and family-focused travel company Inter-studioviaggi. “At At first, I was wary of generative AI,” he says. In this context, generative AI is a very useful support to create content.”

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CIO

JANUARY 1, 2025

Every three years, Koletzki reviews his strategy, and in 2018 decided it was time to move to the cloud. While there are AI components in Fabric, the wider use of AI by AerCap is still under evaluation. Lets be very clear, AI has to be controlled, he says. Generative AI is a probabilistic, not a deterministic system.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2023

Such an approach requires a great deal of data to understand where the sales process stands, and that data infrastructure it turns out is a great source for generative AI. The company was founded in 2018 and has raised almost $50 million with the latest investment.

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CIO

JUNE 15, 2023

Despite headlines warning that artificial intelligence poses a profound risk to society , workers are curious, optimistic, and confident about the arrival of AI in the enterprise, and becoming more so with time, according to a recent survey by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). A lot has happened since that last survey on attitudes to AI in 2018.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

They are also closely watching developments in generative AI services — so concerns raised in the letter look broadly aligned with issues already on the radar of the bloc’s data protection authorities. And be used to pump out unwanted direct marketing or spam.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The new round is bigger than the $6 billion round Elon Musk ’s generative AI startup, xAI , officially announced in May, which up to this point was the largest round raised this year. Pacific Fusion , $900M, energy: Another huge AI-related round. Founded in 2018, the company has raised $1.2 billion, per Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Associating with an app that visible, particularly one that’s in the red-hot generative AI space, is bound to get attention — a fact to which this article is a testament. “There are thousands of Shopify merchants around the world generating more than $10 million a year. In 2020, backers poured $296.4

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As discussed in this post, Layout uses traditional and generative AI methods to improve efficiencies when building a wide variety of document automation solutions such as document search, contextual Q&A, summarization, key-entities extraction, and more. She is focused on building machine learning–based services for AWS customers.

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CIO

APRIL 17, 2024

The retail industry has no shortage of cases on display where generative AI has shown tangible benefits. They had ChatGPT write the script, and other gen AI tools to create a digital person who reads the script, a scalable process with at least one measurable benefit: speed. And software code is a language.”

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CIO

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Banking on hybrid cloud Discovers decision to take a container-based approach as early as 2018 reflects the hybrid approach many consumer financial services have adopted to have maximum control over their workloads. The finserv AI playbook That approach appears to be a common one among the larger financial services players.

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CIO

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This effort includes the traditional stuff like RPA and automation, but also thinking about ways to leverage generative AI for efficiencies, enhancing customer experience and using it to prevent frauds and scams and all of that. It’s been around for a long time, let’s call it 2018, when OpenAI developed GPT.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Just a few short years ago, models like GPT-1 (2018) and GPT-2 (2019) barely registered a blip on anyone’s tech radar. From obscurity to ubiquity, the rise of large language models (LLMs) is a testament to rapid technological advancement.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

It hasn’t entered the hype cycle the way things like crypto and generative AI have. These are very advanced robots and have been open to riders since 2018. While there are already automated single-purpose solutions in these areas, more general purpose robots are going to start to take front stage in the next decade.

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CIO

JUNE 20, 2024

And now, following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in late 2023, we have taken additional steps to expand our partnership to help enterprises become future-ready and be prepared to invest in transformative technologies like Generative AI.”

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

JULY 9, 2024

As such, they are closer to the kinds of questions that business and financial professionals would ask in a generative AI application. of its consolidated revenues during the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively. thousand) Given Context: The Company’s top ten clients accounted for 42.2%, 44.2%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

. “We’re on the verge of a generational change in the way we create content — fueled by AI. That includes the kind of tools like creators are already using in Descript, and emerging stuff like generative AI. The challenge for companies like ours is how to make that technology useful and accessible.”

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CIO

JANUARY 5, 2024

Then in March, the pandemic hit and hotel activity stopped, but it gave us the chance to accelerate the company’s transformation and digitalization process that started in 2018 with a five-year plan. This plan covers from 2018 to 2023. Are you already working with generative AI?

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