French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text. Called Pixtral 12B, the 12-billion-parameter model is roughly 24GB in size. Parameters roughly correspond to a model’s problem-solving skills, and models with more parameters generally perform better than those with fewer parameters. Built on one of Mistral’s text models, Nemo 12B, […]
LanceDB, which counts Midjourney as a customer, is building databases for multimodal AI
Chang She, previously the VP of engineering at Tubi and a Cloudera veteran, has years of experience building data tooling and infrastructure. But when She began working in the AI space, he quickly ran into problems with traditional data infrastructure — problems that prevented him from bringing AI models into production. “Machine learning engineers and […]
SiMa.ai secures $70M funding to introduce a multimodal GenAI chip
SiMa.ai, a Silicon Valley-based startup producing embedded ML system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, today announced that it has raised a $ 70 million extension funding round as it plans to bring its second-generation chipset, specifically built for multimodal generative AI processing, to market. According to Gartner, the market for AI-supporting chips globally is forecast to more than […]
AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon Go creator
In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve out a space for its augmented reality device that features a form factor starkly different from Apple’s device. Today, Singapore-based Brilliant Labs announced its new product, Frame, a pair of lightweight AR glasses […]