Manchester team uses Nvidia Earth-2 for UK pollution forecasts
The University of Manchester and Nvidia said they trained an Earth-2 CorrDiff model on simulated UK pollution data to produce a 2-3 square-kilometer pollution model. The team said training took two days on a single eight-GPU Isamb...
Profound raises $180 million at $1.8 billion valuation
AI marketing startup Profound has raised $180 million in a Series D round at a $1.8 billion valuation, according to a company announcement planned for Tuesday. Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins co-led the financing. The supplied...
AIUC raises $40 million for AI-agent audit service
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, or AIUC, announced a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital, bringing its reported total funding to $55 million. The startup sells AIUC-1, a testing and certification service for A...
OpenAI discusses funding round above $1.2 trillion valuation
OpenAI is holding early talks with investors on a funding round that would value the ChatGPT maker at more than $1.2 trillion ahead of an initial public offering, Bloomberg reported. The discussions are preliminary, and the summar...
Salesforce launches AIforce interface layer for enterprise agents
Salesforce unveiled AIforce, a layer intended to let users and agents access Salesforce data, workflows and business logic from interfaces including Claude and Slack. The company said requests run under existing permissions and bu...
Salesforce and Google Cloud expand agent and infrastructure partnership
Salesforce and Google Cloud expanded their partnership to connect Salesforce's headless architecture with Gemini Enterprise and move Salesforce workloads onto Google Cloud through Hyperforce. Salesforce said its capabilities can n...