AI Funding and Innovation Update: Salesforce Leads $106M for Together AI; Theft Charges for Ex-Google Engineer; Adaptive AI Exits Stealth with $20M; Tavus Gets $18M for AI Video Tech; Ready Player One Author Building Open Metaverse
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Together AI raises $106M in funding led by Salesforce to develop open-source models and productionize them for enterprises.
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Former Google engineer Linwei Ding charged with stealing AI trade secrets, allegedly working with two China-based AI startups.
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Adaptive AI emerges from stealth with $20M in seed funding to enable large language models to continuously learn from employee and customer interactions.
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Tavus Developer Platform raises $18M for its Replica API to create lifelike videos from text using its Phoenix model.
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Ready Player One author Ernest Cline working on "Open" metaverse experience for PC and consoles, focused on interoperability and digital ownership.