Foundation Models AI News & Updates – Page 3

2025-03-10 19:13 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

Poolside CEO Claims AGI Pursuit Only Valid for Serious Developers

Poolside co-founder and CEO Jason Warner argued at the HumanX AI conference that most companies should focus on building AI applications rather than foundation models unless they are pursuing intelligence as the "most im...

[Compute Resources] [Foundation Models] [AGI Pursuit] [AI Strategy] [Poolside]

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2025-02-13 00:00 [Research Breakthrough] [SRC↗]

DeepMind Alumnus Launches Latent Labs with $50M to Revolutionize Computational Biology

Latent Labs, founded by former Google DeepMind scientist Simon Kohl, has emerged from stealth with $50 million in funding to build AI foundation models for computational biology. The startup aims to make biology programm...

[Drug Discovery] [Foundation Models] [Computational Biology] [Protein Design] [DeepMind Alumni]

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2025-02-11 10:04 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

AI Investment Soars 62% to $110B in 2024 While Overall Tech Funding Declines

Venture capital funding for AI startups surged to $110 billion in 2024, representing a 62% increase compared to the previous year, even as overall technology funding declined by 12%. The US dominated AI investment with 4...

[Generative AI] [AI Funding] [Venture Capital] [Foundation Models] [Regional Disparity]

Risk: [+0.06% ↑] [-2 days ↑]

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2025-01-29 02:10 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

SoftBank Negotiating $500M Investment in Robotics Foundation Model Developer Skild AI

SoftBank is reportedly negotiating a $500 million investment in Skild AI, a robotics software company building a foundational model for various types of robots, at a $4 billion valuation. The two-year-old company previou...

[Robotics] [Embodied AI] [Foundation Models] [Investment] [Jeff Bezos]

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