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Lamini, a Palo Alto-based startup building a platform to help enterprises deploy generative AI tech, has raised $25 million from investors including Stanford computer science professor Andrew Ng. Lamini, co-founded several years ago by Sharon Zhou and Greg Diamos, has an interesting sales pitch. Many generative AI platforms are far too general-purpose, Zhou and Diamos argue, and don't have solutions and infrastructure geared to meet the needs of corporations.
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Biden says Americans have 'right to protest but not the right to cause chaos' on college campuses after another night of mass arrests. Here are the latest updates.
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Anthropic, one of the world's best-funded generative AI startups with $7.6 billion in the bank, is launching a new paid plan aimed at enterprises, including those in highly regulated industries like healthcare, finance and legal, as well as a new iOS app. Team, the enterprise plan, gives customers higher-priority access to Anthropic's Claude 3 family of generative AI models plus additional admin and user management controls. "Anthropic introduced the Team plan now in response to growing demand from enterprise customers who want to deploy Claude's advanced AI capabilities across their organizations," Scott White, product lead at Anthropic, told TechCrunch.
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