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[News] Instagram plans to launch more AI-powered features for creators next year AI-powered video editing features are coming to Instagram. These tools will be based on Meta's recently previewed Movie Gen model suite. According to the announcement, the upcoming features will enable creators to make edits like changing their outfits or modifying the background of the video. https://dataphoenix.info/instagram-plans-to-launch-more-ai-powered-features-for-creators-next-year/

[News] Carbon, a startup specializing in retrieval augmented generation, is now owned by Perplexity Perplexity has acquired Carbon, a startup specializing in connecting LLMs with external data sources. The deal will allow Perplexity to integrate Carbon's technology into its products, enabling Perplexity to connect to users' apps to deliver a more personalized experience. https://dataphoenix.info/carbon-a-startup-specializing-in-retrieval-augmented-generation-is-now-owned-by-perplexity/

[News] Anysphere reportedly secured $100M from Thrive Capital In a remarkably short time, Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding assistant Cursor, has managed to raise a $60M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $100M Series B led by Thrive. The latter round places the startup at an estimated $2.6B valuation. https://dataphoenix.info/anysphere-reportedly-secured-100m-from-thrive-capital/

[News] Decart has announced a second funding round just two months after emerging from stealth AI startup Decart has raised $53 million in total funding as it pivots from its profitable AI infrastructure business to developing real-time video generation and world models. Decart recently previewed Oasis, its foundation model capable of generating "playable" Minecraft-like worlds. https://dataphoenix.info/decart-has-announced-a-second-funding-round-just-two-months-after-emerging-from-stealth/

[News] GitHub celebrates reaching 150M developers with a Copilot free tier GitHub has launched a free version of its AI coding assistant Copilot with limited monthly completions and chat messages, aiming to expand access to AI programming tools as part of its mission to reach one billion developers worldwide. https://dataphoenix.info/github-celebrates-reaching-150m-developers-with-a-copilot-free-tier/

[News] Grammarly acquires Coda to transform its AI assistant into a productivity platform Grammarly has acquired Coda to create an AI-powered productivity platform that combines Grammarly's writing assistance technology with Coda's document and workflow tools, with Coda's co-founder Shishir Mehrotra taking over as CEO of the combined company. https://dataphoenix.info/grammarly-acquires-coda-to-transform-its-ai-assistant-into-a-productivity-platform/

[News] YouTube partners with CAA to launch AI likeness protection tools YouTube has partnered with Creative Artists Agency to develop and test new AI tools that will help celebrities and creators identify and manage AI-generated content featuring their likeness on the platform. https://dataphoenix.info/youtube-partners-with-caa-to-launch-ai-likeness-protection-tools/

[News] AI search monitoring platform Otterly.AI emerges from stealth with 1000+ customers Otterly.AI, the first AI search monitoring platform, has launched from stealth with over 1,000 users, helping brands track and optimize their visibility across major AI search engines like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews as traditional search traffic faces disruption from AI adoption. https://dataphoenix.info/ai-search-monitoring-platform-otterly-ai-emerges-from-stealth-with-1000-customers/

[News] Writer's Palmyra Creative aims to add depth, variety, and originality to its outputs Writer has launched Palmyra Creative, a new AI model designed to produce more creative and engaging outputs. According to Writer, Palmyra Creative can be combined with the company's specialized models to bring creative writing to domains such as finance and healthcare. https://dataphoenix.info/writers-palmyra-creative-aims-to-add-depth-variety-and-originality-to-its-outputs-2/

[News] Databricks has closed a massive $10B Series J funding round Databricks has secured a massive $10 billion Series J funding round led by Thrive Capital, valuing the company at $62 billion, as it experiences rapid growth driven by AI demand. Databricks expects to cross $3 billion in revenue run rate and achieve positive free cash flow this quarter. https://dataphoenix.info/databricks-has-closed-a-massive-10b-series-j-funding-round/

[News] In addition to al of its other talents, Gemini 2.0 Flash also has a "thinking mode" Google recently announced the release of an early version of its first 'reasoning' model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. The model features text and image understanding and text outputs, and is now available via the Gemini API and in the Google AI Studio. https://dataphoenix.info/in-addition-to-al-of-its-other-talents-gemini-2-0-flash-also-has-a-thinking-mode/

[News] YouTube's new setting lets creators opt their content into third-party AI model training YouTube has launched a new setting that opts creators out of third party model training and enables them to choose whether they want all, some or no third-parties to train models using their content. https://dataphoenix.info/youtubes-new-setting-lets-creators-opt-their-content-into-third-party-ai-model-training/

[News] Google DeepMind's Veo 2 is here to steal the spotlight from OpenAI's Sora Google DeepMind recently unveiled Veo 2, a video generation model capable of outputting consistent and realistic minutes-long video clips in up to 4K resolution. Veo 2 is currently available through Google Labs' Video FX. https://dataphoenix.info/google-deepminds-veo-2-is-here-to-steal-the-spotlight-from-openais-sora/

[News] Less than three weeks left to apply to Mistralship—Mistral AI's startup program Mistral AI recently started receiving applications for its startup program, Mistralship. Ten selected applicants will benefit from La Plateforme credits, one-on-one support, and early access to models and products in the first six-month cohort. Applications close on January 5, 2025. https://dataphoenix.info/less-than-three-weeks-left-to-apply-to-mistralship-mistral-ais-startup-program-2/

[News] Weekly AI Highlights Review: December 10–17 Google's advances in agentic AI and the Gemini 2.0 Flash launch; two startups working on transformer-based models alternatives closed funding rounds; Claude 3.5 Haiku is generally available; Reddit introduced its conversational AI; and more. https://dataphoenix.info/weekly-ai-highlights-review-december-10-17/

[News] Meta showcased Video Seal, a model that embeds edit-resistant watermarking into videos Meta has released an open-source neural watermarking model called Video Seal that embeds a robust, imperceptible watermark and optional message to address limitations of existing video watermarking solutions and support responsible AI development. https://dataphoenix.info/meta-showcased-video-seal-a-model-that-embeds-edit-resistant-watermarking-into-videos/

[News] Poland-based Vivid Mind has raised $200K to detect dementia using a voice-based test Vivid Mind, a startup that has developed an AI-assisted voice test capable of detecting early-stage dementia with 90% accuracy, has raised $200,000 in pre-seed funding to continue testing and obtain regulatory approvals for its innovative diagnostic tool. https://dataphoenix.info/poland-based-vivid-mind-has-raised-200k-to-detect-dementia-using-a-voice-based-test/

[News] Claude 3.5 Haiku is now generally available for Claude users Anthropic has confirmed the new version of its smallest model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, is now available in the Claude web experience and mobile apps. First announced in October, Claude 3.5 Haiku is intended to deliver Claude 3 Opus' performance at Claude 3 Haiku's speed. https://dataphoenix.info/claude-3-5-haiku-is-now-generally-available/

[News] The redesigned NotebookLM lets users interact with its AI hosts and has a paid tier Google is expanding NotebookLM with a paid tier. The company also announced it will use the experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash to power NotebookLM, and that users can enjoy two new features: a redesigned workspace and the capability to interact with the hosts in an AI Overview. https://dataphoenix.info/the-redesigned-notebooklm-lets-users-interact-with-its-ai-hosts-and-has-a-paid-tier/

[News] Cartesia's $27M seed round will enable it to build better alternatives to transformer-based models Cartesia, having raised $27 million in seed funding, is developing innovative AI architectures that enable more efficient, long-memory, and multi-modal intelligence with their breakthrough State Space Model (SSM) technology, exemplified by their hyper-realistic Sonic voice generation model. https://dataphoenix.info/cartesias-27m-seed-round-will-enable-it-to-build-better-alternatives-to-transformer-based-models/