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Anthropic just launched a new platform that lets everyone in your company collaborate on AI -- not just the tech team
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 23:05
Anthropic launches upgraded Console with team prompt collaboration tools and Claude 3.7 Sonnet's extended thinking controls.
Peer raises $10.5M for metaverse engine, launches 3D personal planets
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 20:00
Peer announced today it's raised new funding to build its AI-powered metaverse engine and launched its "personal planets" feature.
A standard, open framework for building AI agents is coming from Cisco, LangChain and Galileo
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 19:41
The collective, called AGNTCY, aims to create a standard way for AI agents from different platforms and frameworks to talk to each other.
Meta is targeting 'hundreds of millions' of businesses in agentic AI deployment
CNBC - 6 Mar 2025 18:58
Meta expects a market of hundreds of millions of small businesses where gen AI will directly interact with customers, says head of AI for Business, Clara Shih.
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf just challenged Anthropic CEO's vision for AI's future -- and the $130 billion industry is taking notice
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 18:45
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf challenges Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "compressed 21st century" vision, arguing AI systems are building "yes-men on servers" rather than the revolutionary thinkers needed for scienti...
Welevel raises $5.7M to revolutionize procedural game development
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 16:15
Indie game development studio Welevel today announced that it raised $5.7 million in funding to transform procedural game development.
Auto Legends adds $1M to its funding round in Coinbase Ventures deal
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 16:00
Auto Legends, a social drag racing Web3 game, has added $1 million in a strategic investment from Coinbase Ventures' Base Ecosystem Fund.
Female founders in the U.S. VC ecosystem: the good and the bad | Pitchbook
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 07:01
Women founders and investors raised $38.8 billion in funding in the U.S. in 2024, up 27% from the year before, according to PitchBook.
Alibaba's new open source model QwQ-32B matches DeepSeek-R1 with way smaller compute requirements
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 01:06
While DeepSeek-R1 operates with 671 billion parameters, QwQ-32B achieves comparable performance with a much smaller footprint.
SimilarWeb data: This obscure AI startup grew 8,658% while OpenAI crawled at 9%
Venture Beat - 6 Mar 2025 00:09
SimilarWeb data reveals dramatic AI market upheaval with Deepseek (8,658% growth) and Lovable (928% growth) dominating.