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OpenAI has reportedly appointed Barret Zoph to lead its push into enterprise just a week after Zoph rejoined the company.

The five-year-old-startup powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode and raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures.

The seed round values the newly formed startup at $800 million.

General Fusion's merger with an acquisition company will net the company over $300 million. Just last year, the company ran into trouble raising money from other investors.

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.

Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake and selling up to 45.9 million shares.

Research from startup GPTZero points to the impossible problem prestigious conferences face in the age of AI slop.

The medical info database has doubled in valuation since last raise in October, despite encroachment from model makers.

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PraxisPro, founded by a former pharma sales rep, offers small language model AI training specifically designed for medical product sales.

Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million Series D round that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company.

Another hopes to help companies address excess inventory before brands opt to sell items to bulk resellers. Corina Marshall, Another's founder, says items sold through such resellers may be deeply discounted, an outcome brands might not want.

The acquisition will give restaurants on Grubhub access to Claim’s customer acquisition and retention tools, while Grubhub diners can receive rewards.

Humans&, a startup that believes AI should empower people, not replace them, has reportedly raised a $480 million seed round at a $4.48 billion valuation.

Eat App is making India its central focus to market its reservation and dine-in growth suite.

The funding comes as the startup claims it has scaled ARR to $50 million and is targeting $100 million by April 2026.

The combined business will serve more than 4,000 customers globally and surpass $100 million in annual revenue.

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Misaligned agents are just one layer of the AI security challenge that startup Witness AI is trying to solve. It detects employee use of unapproved tools, blocks attacks, and ensures compliance.