New York-based artificial intelligence company Lightning AI has recently completed a new funding round of $50 million. The investment round includes notable firms such as Cisco Investments, JPMorgan Chase, K5 Global, and technology giant NVIDIA. To date, Lightning AI's total funding has reached $103 million. Led by founder and CEO William Falcon, Lightning AI is known for its deep learning framework, PyTorch Lightning.
Recently, San Francisco-based startup Wordware announced the completion of a $30 million seed funding round led by Spark Capital. This investment is one of the largest initial investments in Y Combinator's history. Wordware aims to simplify the AI development process through its natural language platform, enabling non-programmers to easily build AI agents. The core product of Wordware is a full-stack operating system that allows users to...
NVIDIA's leadership position in the field of artificial intelligence is undeniable. Recently, the company's quarterly financial report revealed that NVIDIA sold $31 billion worth of AI systems in the last quarter. Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of the company, emphasized the importance of AI applications across various industries during a conversation with Wall Street analysts. In this discussion, Huang mentioned Google's NotebookLM tool, stating that he uses this AI tool 'very frequently'.
Recently, Meta AI open-sourced a foundational multimodal language model named SPIRIT LM, which can freely mix text and speech, opening new possibilities for multimodal tasks involving audio and text. SPIRIT LM is based on a pre-trained text language model with 7 billion parameters, which has been continuously trained on text and speech units, expanding into the speech modality. It can understand and generate text like a large text model, while also being capable of understanding and generating speech, and even mixing text and speech to create various forms of expression.