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What Is Claude AI and Anthropic? ChatGPT’s Rival Explained

Tech.Co

Anthropic largely focuses its work on building large language models (LLM) and the chatbots that subsequently use them. As part of the latter deal, Amazon employees and cloud customers will get early access to the technology. It was first released in March 2023 , powered by the language model Claude 1.3.

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Parallel Systems Picks Up $49.55M For Autonomous Trains

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Culver City-based Parallel Systems, a startup developing autonomous train and transportation technology, said today that it has raised $49.55M in a Series A funding round. The funding was led by Anthos Capital, and also included Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures and Embark Ventures. The company is led by CEO Matt Soule.

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Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global is buying a startup that uses neuroscience to boost app usage

TechCrunch LA

Originally called Dopamine Labs, the company was founded in 2015 to bring some of the same technologies that social media companies like Facebook used to boost engagement to a broader range of applications. “We can use technology to hook people to unhook them from unhealthy behaviors.”

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Gretel.ai Snags $50M For Privacy Efforts

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San Diego-based Gretel.ai, a startup which is developing privacy technology, has raised $50M in a Series B funding, the company said today. Gretel.ai's privacy technology helps generate synthetic data, which preserves privacy, but can help provide data sets for training machine learning and AI models.

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Red 6 Bolsters Advisors With Former Air Force Assistant Secretary

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Santa Monica-based augmented reality, air combat training technology developer Red 6 said on Thursday that it has added Dr. Will Roper, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L).

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A.I. in 2018: IBM Exec on Advances in Training, Trust, Transparency

Xconomy

[ Editor’s note: This is part of a series of posts sharing thoughts from technology leaders about 2018 trends and 2019 forecasts. Today’s artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated they’re capable of handling specific tasks, such as identifying pictures of cats or spotting cancer in CT scans.

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Moonshots Capital Announced First Seed Stage Fund

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Cummings said in the firm's formal announcement that it is looking for great leaders, and often, "the best ones are military-trained or trial-by-fire entrepreneurs who have the ability to motivate others to action, inspire trust, and plan heuristically." READ MORE>>.