OpenAI has begun building out its robotics team.

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🤖 AI STARTUPS RAISING MILLIONS

AI-powered modernizing government hiring platform raises $2.2M

• Holly, a NYC-based provider of an AI-powered platform modernizing government hiring, raised $2.2M in Pre-Seed funding.

• The round was led by J2 Ventures with participation from Roble Ventures, Gaingels, and angel investors.

AI-driven intelligence and law enforcement solution raises undisclosed amount

• Metis Intelligence, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of NextGen AI-driven intelligence and law enforcement solutions, raised an undisclosed amount in pivotal funding.

• The round was led by Tau Capital.

AI-driven chain visibility and security solution platform raises $55M

• Overhaul, an Austin-based startup offering AI-driven supply chain visibility and security solutions to track goods, combat theft, and optimize costs, has raised $55 million.

• A round led by Springcoast Partners with Edison Partners and Americo, bringing its total funding to $150 million.

AI healthcare startup raises $141M

• Hippocratic AI, a healthcare-focused AI startup based in the U.S. creating non-diagnostic patient-facing agents for tasks like pre-operative procedures and remote monitoring, has raised $141 million in a Series B.

• Led by Kleiner Perkins, valuing it at $1.64 billion.

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Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450

• NovaSky, a UC Berkeley research team, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a competitive open-source reasoning AI model, trained for less than $450, demonstrating the feasibility of affordable, high-level reasoning capabilities.

• Sky-T1 outperforms earlier versions of OpenAI’s o1 on math and coding challenges, but falls short in advanced scientific domains like physics, biology, and chemistry, compared to o1’s latest release.

• The team plans to continue improving the model's efficiency and accuracy, aiming to develop advanced, open-source reasoning AI models with stronger performance in the future.

Microsoft accuses group of developing tool to abuse its AI service in new lawsuit

• Microsoft filed a lawsuit against 10 unnamed defendants accused of stealing customer credentials to bypass security in its Azure OpenAI Service.

• The company claims the defendants used custom software to generate harmful content through stolen API keys from U.S.-based customers.

• Microsoft is seeking damages and has implemented additional security measures to counteract these activities.

OpenAI has begun building out its robotics team.

• OpenAI revived its robotics department, planning to develop robots with a custom sensor suite and AI models.

• The company’s robotics team will focus on creating adaptive, versatile robots for real-world, dynamic settings with human-like intelligence.

• OpenAI's robotics effort shows ambition for full-scale production, with job listings hinting at humanoid robots and high-volume mechanical system design.

Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’

• Google is integrating its AI Studio and Gemini API teams into Google DeepMind to speed up AI development.

• This reorganization aims to enhance collaboration, improve APIs, and increase open-source initiatives.

• Google CEO Sundar Pichai emphasized focusing on scaling Gemini in 2025, aiming to strengthen its AI leadership.

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