Lelapa AI announces the launch of Inkuba LM 0.4B, the first African language model (LLM) capable of understanding and responding in five African languages: IsiZulu, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, and IsiXhosa.
Trail, a Munich-based technology startup building the copilot for AI governance, announced the successful closure of a €1.45 million pre-seed round. The funding round is led by early-stage investor NP-Hard Ventures with participation from Mozilla Ventures, CapitalT, Common Magic, and various business angels.
Australian AI entrepreneur Jeremy Howard has capped an US$8 million ($12.2 million) angel investment round for his latest startup, Answer.AI.
Founded by Brisbane-based Howard and The Lean Startup author Eric Ries, Answer.AI is a research and development lab that hopes to do for AI what Thomas Edison’s invention lab did for electricity.
(MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2024) – Today, Mozilla Ventures is announcing an investment in Holistic AI, a leading AI governance platform. Holistic AI enables enterprises to fully and safely embrace AI’s potential in their businesses, with a key focus on transparency, accountability, and safety. As the global leader in Responsible AI, Holistic AI empowers enterprises like… Continue reading Mozilla Ventures Invests in Leading AI Governance Platform Holistic AI
Flower, in partnership with the CaMLSys lab at the University of Cambridge, has trained for the first time a 1.3 billion parameter LLM using a novel formulation of federated learning methods. The resulting LLM and companion methodology, that we call FlowerLLM, beats the previous record set by Google DeepMind by more than a factor of three and paves the way towards an era of increasingly democratic participation within foundation models.
A profile of Themis AI cofounder Elaheh Ahmadi. Themis AI is proudly backed by Mozilla Ventures, and enables trustworthy AI in high risk scenarios, rare events and anywhere imbalances and biases can be found within training data by a technology developed by top MIT alumni and professors.
