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With so many startups now offering AI bots that can do everything from listening to and transcribing meetings to taking notes and surfacing insights, companies in this space are looking to add additional feature sets. They need to differentiate themselves by offering integration and integration. One such company, Read AI, is trying to do just that by integrating its AI bot with email, Slack, and enterprise tools like Hubspot, Jira, and Confluence. And to accelerate product development, the company announced Monday that it has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round led by Smash Capital. Notably, this new…

We finally have an “official” definition of open source AI. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), the long-standing organization dedicated to defining and “governing” all things open source, today released version 1.0 of the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID). OSAID is the result of several years of collaboration between academia and industry, and aims to provide a standard by which anyone can determine whether AI is open source. Like this reporter, you may be wondering why consensus is important in defining open source AI. OSI Vice President Stefano Maffri said a big motivation is to get policy makers and AI developers…

xAI, owned by Elon Musk, has added image understanding capabilities to its Grok AI model. This will allow paid users of the X social platform to upload an image and ask the AI ​​chatbot questions about it. One of the xAI employees and official Grok handle posted about this update on X. https://twitter.com/grok/status/1850808322074509434 In another post, Musk said Grok can also explain the meaning of jokes through new image understanding capabilities. He added that this feature is in its early stages and will be improved along the way. In August, Musk's AI company released a chatbot modeled after Grok-2 for…

This story has been updated throughout with updated details as the story unfolds. We will continue to do so as litigation and disputes are ongoing. There is a lot of controversy going on in the world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites. The central issue is a dispute between WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and WP Engine, which hosts websites built on WordPress. WordPress technology is open source, free, and powers a huge portion of the internet (approximately 40% of websites). Websites can host their own WordPress instance or use a…

Paris-based startup Filigran is quickly emerging as the next cybersecurity rocket. The company just raised a $35 million Series B round, just months after raising $16 million in a Series A round. Filigran's main product is OpenCTI. OpenCTI is an open-source threat intelligence platform that allows enterprises and public sector organizations to import threat data from multiple sources and enrich that data set with intelligence from providers such as CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, and Sekoia. The open source version of OpenCTI has attracted contributions from 4,300 cybersecurity professionals and has been downloaded millions of times. The European Commission, FBI, and New York…

The popularity of an Instagram video can affect the actual video quality. According to Adam Mosseri (a meta executive who leads Instagram and Threads), more popular videos will be shown in higher quality, and less popular videos will be shown in lower quality. In the video (via The Verge), Mosseri says that Instagram tries to show “the highest quality videos possible,” but that “if something isn't viewed for a long time, a large percentage of the views are “Because I'm here,” he said. At first you will move to lower quality videos. ” This is not entirely new information. Meta…

The phrase “Europe needs to take drastic action to remain competitive” has become a common refrain in political debates. Among a long list of potential reforms, one that has received particular attention is a new EU-wide legal personality for innovative companies. The innovation, known (somewhat vaguely) as the “28th Regime”, is being touted as Europe's answer to Delaware's C-Corp and would further strengthen the regime already in place in the 27 EU member states. Probably. Now supported by a grassroots movement backed by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, it also brings with it the more familiar name of “EU Inc” and…

On this episode of StrictlyVC Download, hosts Connie Loizos and Alex Gove speak with Pranav Singhvi and Hemant Taneja of General Catalyst, one of the largest venture companies on the planet. Is it one of the central themes? It's a product that General Catalyst created about five years ago and is reminiscent of GE Lease. Essentially, the company funds private and public companies that invest heavily in customer acquisition and marketing, in exchange for a cut of the revenue generated from those new customers. They package these deals by predicting how much the company will grow over a few years.…

Meta has released an “open” implementation of its viral podcast generation feature in Google's NotebookLM. The project, called NotebookLlama, unsurprisingly uses Meta's own Llama model for much of its processing. Similar to NotebookLM, it can generate podcast-style digests of uploaded text files before and after. NotebookLlama first creates a transcript from a file (such as a PDF of a news article or blog post). It then adds “further dramatization” and interruptions before feeding the transcript into an open text-to-speech model. Image credit: Meta The results don't seem to be as good as NotebookLM. In the NotebookLlama sample I listened to,…

Mariam Naficy, founder of cosmetics retailer Eve and design marketplace Minted, has a long history of supporting independent artists and helping them sell their products. Her latest venture, Arcade AI, is a new type of marketplace that puts creative control directly in the hands of users. The Generate AI platform, which launched in beta in September, allows customers called “dreamers” to input their ideas into a generator that generates a variety of jewelry design options. You can also upload images. Once a “dream” is selected, it will be assigned to one of Arcade’s artisans who will bring the digital concept…