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Each week, Quartz rounds up product launches, updates, and funding news from artificial intelligence-targeted startups and companies.
Here’s what’s going on this week in the ever-evolving AI industry.
Workera, an AI-powered platform conventional by businesses to measure staff’ abilities, launched Sage, which it says is “the sphere’s first ever AI mentor for the undertaking.”
With Sage, individuals and organizations can regain tailored responses based on their wishes, goals, and skill levels. For example, learners can utilize the AI mentor for guidance and encouragement, while managers can utilize Sage to analyze talent and regain recommendations for improving crew pattern.
The Allen Institute for AI launched a family of state-of-the-art multimodal models called Molmo. The Molmo family includes its “most start and extremely effective multimodal model today, and probably the most productive model,” Ai2 said.
Molmo can “understand” a vast range of images, from recognizing everyday objects to reading complicated charts and menus. The models can also “point to what they come across” on screens, such as the visual and interactive features real-world customers come across.
According to Ai2, Molmo is “creative” and can “brainstorm” designs, and even advise jokes and reports.
Molmo’s training, fine-tuning, and diversified data is available as start models.
“Multimodal AI models are typically trained on billions of images. We have instead targeted on using extremely excessive quality data but at a scale that is 1000 times smaller,” Ani Kembhavi, senior director of research at Ai2, said in a statement. “This has produced models that are as extremely effective as the appropriate proprietary systems, but with fewer hallucinations and mighty faster to train, making our model far extra accessible to the community.”
Boston Dynamics (HYMTF) announced updates to its Save robot and Orbit, the software conventional to manage the robot rapidly.
Among Save’s new capabilities are acoustic vibration sensing, allowing its operators to detect bearing failures early and avoid a breakdown, and visual semantic context that improves the way it “sees.”
Harmonic, an AI company developing mathematical superintelligence, announced that it raised a $75 million Sequence A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. Index Ventures also had “significant participation” in the round, which ended in a $325 million post-cash valuation.
The company was founded in 2023 by Robinhood (HOOD) chief executive Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim.
Mathematical Superintelligence, or MSI, is “AI with mathematical capabilities superior to that of humans,” according to Harmonic. MSI can clear up the limitations of diversified AI systems, the company says, by using formal verification to eliminate hallucinations, and overcoming data walls with synthetic data.
Harmonic has a state-of-the-art mathematics model called Aristotle, which it says scored 90% on the leading formal mathematics benchmark, MiniF2F.
“We imagine that mathematical superintelligence is the next frontier in AI,” Tenev said in a statement. “We’re exasperated to partner with Sequoia, Index, and many diversified great investors to accelerate the advent of AI models that are accurate and reality-seeking.”
