• AI news and Funding updates 15 January 2025

  • Jan 15 2025
  • Length: 7 mins
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AI news and Funding updates 15 January 2025

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  • AI news and funding updates from the last 24 hours(15th Jan 2025):



    🏻 Policy and Regulation


    ✅ Executive Order on AI: President Biden signed an order allowing federal land leases for AI data centers, boosting national security and clean energy while mandating American-made semiconductors.



    🏻 AI News


    ✅ Microsoft AutoGen v0.4: Introduced a multi-agent AI framework with asynchronous architecture, debugging tools, and cross-language support.


    ✅ Google NotebookLM Update: Resolved AI host politeness issues in "Interactive Mode" with "friendliness tuning."


    ✅ Google Titans Architecture: Unveiled a new AI architecture combining short✅ and long-term memory, outperforming Transformers and RNNs.


    ✅ Sundar Pichai's Cricket Bid: Google CEO leads a $97M bid for a London-based cricket team in The Hundred league.


    ✅ OpenAI Board Update: Added Adebayo Ogunlesi to its board, part of a major restructuring post-2023 leadership changes.


    ✅ OpenAI o1 Model Quirk: Observed multilingual reasoning even when prompted in English, raising transparency concerns.


    ✅ ChatGPT Tasks Beta: Introduced scheduled reminders and recurring requests for Plus, Team, and Pro users.


    ✅ Apple Joins UALink Consortium: Invests in AI accelerator chip connectivity for data centers.


    ✅ Meta Llama 3 Goals: Internally aimed to outperform GPT-4 and Claude, focusing on open AI models.


    ✅ Meta Apology in India: VP apologized for Zuckerberg's incorrect election-related statement on a podcast.


    ✅ Amazon Alexa Rebranding: Plans to reposition Alexa as an advanced AI agent with expanded capabilities.


    ✅ Soket AI Realtime Speech API: Launched a multilingual API with voice cloning and low latency.


    ✅ India's Sovereign LLM: IT Minister discusses developing a large language model for Indian languages.


    ✅ Bhashini at Maha Kumbh: AI chatbot "Kumbh Sah‘AI’yak" offers real-time assistance in 11 languages.



    🏻 AI Funding Rounds


    ✅ Anysphere Series B: Raised $105M for its AI-powered coding tool, reaching a $2.5B valuation.


    ✅ Nvidia Invests in MetAI: Taiwanese startup accelerates digital twin creation for robotics and industry.


    ✅ Synthesia Series D: Raised $180M to enhance AI video tech, now valued at $2.1B.


    ✅ Arva AI Seed Round: Raised $3M to improve KYB verification with generative AI.


    ✅ Applied Digital Investment: Secured up to $5B from Macquarie for AI-focused data centers.


    ✅ AWS Mexico Expansion: $5B investment over 15 years, including a new server region to boost GDP by $10B.


    ✅ Thoras Seed Round: Raised $5M for its AI-powered cloud reliability and cost optimization platform.


    ✅ SEEQC Quantum Chips: Raised $30M to integrate quantum computing functions into scalable chips.


    ✅ Telstra-Accenture JV: Launched a $700M venture to enhance AI integration in Telstra's operations.


    ✅ OrbitAID Aerospace: Secured $1.5M for space refueling tech, advancing India's space sector.


    ✅ Sarla Aviation Series A1: Raised $10M to develop the Shunya electric flying taxi and expand in India.

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