Large companies have become the leading adopters of artificial intelligence technology, giving them an unfair advantage over their smaller competitors. That’s something a startup called Hatz AI Inc. wants to change, which just raised $24 million in early-stage funding to give managed services providers the tools they need to keep AI easy for the smaller … Read more
Fine-tuning models through reinforcement learning is quickly becoming one of the most challenging tasks in AI infrastructure. It combines training, inference and sandbox agent work in a single loop, often with research code entangled in the underlying systems. Google LLC addressed this problem within its Kubernetes engineering group and recently donated the result, OpenRL, to … Read more
Confidential computing is generating new interest as companies weigh where their most sensitive AI workloads can safely run. This shift will give virtual machines a new role alongside containers on Kubernetes, rather than slowly retiring them. The schedule aligns with a milestone for KubeVirt, the open source project that runs VMs in Kubernetes clusters and … Read more
Fractile Ltd., a British startup developing artificial intelligence inference chips, has raised $720 million in funding. Reuters reported Today it was announced that the Series C round was led by Thrive Capital, Founders Fund, Lightspeed and Redpoint. They were joined by about a dozen others, including the UK Sovereign AI Fund, the British Business Bank … Read more
Companies developing AI-native applications are finding that raw GPU capacity is only half the battle. As Kubernetes users move from cloud-native to AI-native stacks, the question is shifting from who has the most accelerators to who can run distributed, secure workloads on a global scale. The first wave of so-called neoclouds provided massive GPU clusters … Read more
IBM Corp. today announced the Quantum Nighthawk r3, its next-generation processor designed to handle larger, more complex calculations at high speed while maintaining quality. The company also announced that in 2027, IBM plans to combine two r3 quantum processors into a single system capable of performing up to 10,000 quantum operations, scaling between them to … Read more
Path Robotics Inc., a startup that today focuses on automating industrial welding processes announced that it has raised $300 million in funding. Georgian led the Serie E round. The company was joined by a consortium that included the venture capital arms of Yamaha Motor Co. and Navier Corp. one of the largest technology companies in … Read more
AI operations are moving out of the slide deck and into the platform itself. Hiring freezes and smaller teams come with increasing workloads. As a result, companies now expect the infrastructure layer to investigate, plan for, and help resolve issues. Kubernetes platforms are among the first places where change is happening. Red Hat Inc. this … Read more
Private market data provider PitchBook Data Inc. opened its platform free to start-ups at the Web Summit in Lisbon today. Anyone who registers must provide their financial information. Some of this information will come to investors through the company’s new deal sourcing service, PitchBook Origin. The launches come at a time when more startups than … Read more
Meta Platforms Inc. today introduced Muse Ember, an entry-level artificial intelligence model that costs significantly less than the competition. Notably, it is the first AI that the company has trained with Muse Wonder. The latter algorithm is the flagship of Facebook’s parent company’s large language models. Meta didn’t specify what part of the workflow it … Read more