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Latest AI Industry Innovations: OpenAI, Cohere, Speak, and More

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This week marked significant progress in the AI sector. OpenAI unveiled Canvas, a refined interface for ChatGPT, enhancing collaborative writing and coding on both web and Windows platforms. This interface features the new GPT-4o model, enabling Python code execution and customizable attributes, which were once exclusive to beta users. Cohere released Command R7B, the latest model in its R series designed for enterprises. This model is lauded for its strong reasoning skills and efficiency on low-end hardware, accessible via Cohere and Hugging Face. Language learning AI platform Speak secured $78 million in Series C funding, elevating its valuation to $1 billion. The round, led by Accel and supported by the OpenAI Startup Fund, will aid in its global expansion goals for 2025. Ayar Labs raised $155 million in Series D funding, pushing its valuation over $1 billion. Their cutting-edge optical I/O technology aims to boost AI infrastructure chip efficiency. Gentrace received $8 million in Series A funding to advance its AI testing and monitoring platform. Their new tool, Experiments, assists teams in testing large language models and predicting potential errors.

This week in the AI industry, several notable developments occurred. OpenAI launched "canvas, " an interface for collaborating with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects, available to web and Windows users. Integrated into OpenAI's GPT-4o model, canvas allows running Python code for improvements and offers compatibility with custom GPTs. Cohere introduced Command R7B, the final and most compact model in its R series of large language models, designed to perform efficiently on minimal hardware. Command R7B is available on the Cohere Platform and HuggingFace, offering state-of-the-art performance in reasoning and agentic tasks. Speak, an AI language learning startup, announced a $78 million Series C funding round, doubling its valuation to $1 billion.

This investment supports its mission to enhance spoken fluency globally. Ayar Labs secured $155 million in Series D funding to scale its optical I/O technology, aimed at improving data transfer between AI chips. The funding round involved prominent investors like AMD Ventures and Intel Capital. Gentrace, a platform for AI testing collaboration, raised $8 million in Series A funding. Their new tool, Experiments, enables teams to collaboratively test and preview large language models before deployment. These developments highlight ongoing innovation and investment in advancing AI technology and infrastructure.


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