Published on: 2025-05-21 11:58:41
In Brief Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug discovery platform that was spun out of Google’s DeepMind in 2021, has raised external capital for the first time. The $600 million round was led by Thrive Capital, with participation from GV, and existing investor Google’s parent Alphabet, it said. The funding will accelerate further development of Isomorphic’s AI drug design engine and support the company’s goal of bringing its discovered drugs to clinical trials. Isomorphic Labs was founded by DeepMind
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 02:13:16
Noam Brown, who leads AI reasoning research at OpenAI, says “reasoning” AI models like OpenAI’s o1 could’ve arrived 20 years earlier had researchers “known [the right] approach” and algorithms. “There were various reasons why this research direction was neglected,” Brown said during a panel at Nvidia’s GTC conference in San Jose on Wednesday. “I noticed over the course of my research that, OK, there’s something missing. Humans spend a lot of time thinking before they act in a tough situation. M
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 06:11:31
Flower Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup, on Tuesday launched a preview of its distributed cloud platform for serving AI models, called Flower Intelligence. Mozilla is already using it to power the upcoming Assist summarization add-on for its Thunderbird email client. What makes Flower Intelligence unique, Flower Labs said in a post on X, is that it can drive on-device AI mobile, PC, and web apps that automatically hand off to a private cloud when needed (with a user’s permission). Apps defau
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 10:20:59
Cortical Labs would like to sell you a brain in a box. It’ll cost about $35,000, and you can teach it to do all kinds of nifty things. If that’s out of your price range, you can sign up for its ‘Wetware-as-a-Service’ and rent bio-computer processing power from a rack of living tissues welded to machines. It’ll be in the cloud. Cortical Labs has been working on this computer for six years and detailed many of its features in New Atlas. The computer is called the CL1, and the company is already t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 14:45:07
Australian startup Cortical Labs has launched what it's calling the "world’s first code deployable biological computer." The shoe box-sized device, dubbed CL1, is a notable departure from a conventional computer, and uses human brain cells to run fluid neural networks. In 2022, Cortical Labs made a big splash after teaching human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game "Pong." The CL1, however, is a fundamentally different approach, as New Atlas reports. It makes use of hundred
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 08:14:36
Many new science orgs are looking to pursue research that has the positive aspects of both “applied” research and “basic” research. To me, this is a very reasonable approach. After all, the “applied vs. basic research” distinction has always been a rather arbitrary one. Some research projects feel like they are squarely in one bucket or the other, but it’s not always that clear. Applied research is meant to be research with immediate applications in mind. But, of course, applied research could
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Many new science orgs are looking to pursue research that has the positive aspects of both “applied” research and “basic” research. To me, this is a very reasonable approach. After all, the “applied vs. basic research” distinction has always been a rather arbitrary one. Some research projects feel like they are squarely in one bucket or the other, but it’s not always that clear. Applied research is meant to be research with immediate applications in mind. But, of course, applied research could
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 05:17:00
In brief: An unconventional form of artificial intelligence is taking shape in a nondescript laboratory in Melbourne, Australia. Cortical Labs has unveiled CL1 – an AI computer that fuses real human brain cells with silicon hardware. Remarkably, it's been launched commercially as the "world's first commercialized biological computer." At first glance, the CL1 looks like a rather unconventional PC with a small, horizontal form factor. But that's where the similarity ends. Inside, the CL1 houses
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 09:56:35
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More ElevenLabs, the highly-valued AI voice cloning and generation startup from former Palantir alumni, today launched Scribe v1, a new speech-to-text model that reportedly achieves the highest accuracy across multiple languages. Users can try it here on the ElevenLabs site. According to the company’s benchmarks, it outperforms Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash, OpenAI’s Whisper v3
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 16:45:45
Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks on its own Reader app, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round last month, started inviting authors to try out their publishing program through their app on a trial basis last year, TechCrunch previously spotted. That program is newly open to all authors as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-15 07:15:20
One of the big advantages of electric vehicles is their greater freedom when it comes to packaging. Batteries go where it makes the most sense in terms of stability and safety. Electric motors are compact and don't need much cooling compared to a combustion engine, and there's no exhaust to worry about. Putting the motors close to the wheels makes sense—in the wheel itself if possible—and it seems that a startup called Donut Labs may have solved some of the problems hub-mounted motors have face
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 22:47:09
GibberLink Warning: This went viral, be careful as there are a lot of scam projects trying to capitalize on this. We have nothing to do with them. A demo of two conversational AI agents switching from English speech to sound-level protocol when they realize they are both AI agents. Click the image below to watch a demo video on youtube: Authors Anton Pidkuiko: threads, linkedin, github Boris Starkov: linkedin, github based on ggwave library by Georgi Gerganov and conversational AI by Elev
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Acid Labs has raised $8 million in funding for its instantly playable Web3 games on social messaging platforms. The company’s mission is to build viral instant games where people already connect. The studio already has a breakout hit in Boinkers.io, which has 11.5 million monthly players on Telegram. The company says that shows the massive potential of chat-integrated gaming. A16z Speedrun and NFX led the round, with participation from Fusion VC, and top gaming executives. Jonn Weinberg is the
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