Elix, Inc. (CEO: Shinya Yuki / Headquarters: Tokyo; hereinafter “Elix”) is pleased to announce that its AI drug discovery platform, Elix Discovery (https://www.elix-inc.com/platform/), has been adopted by Eisai Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo; hereinafter “Eisai”). Traditional drug discovery involves identifying promising compounds from vast numbers of candidates, which leads to long development timelines, high costs, and…
Investment accelerates production of SuperNODE and Gryf, empowering every accelerator to meet the surging demand for AI inferencing. GigaIO, a leading provider of scalable infrastructure specifically designed for AI inferencing, today announced it has raised $21 million in the first tranche of its Series B financing. The round was led by Impact Venture Capital, with…
Pelanor, a leading provider of AI-powered FinOps platform for modern cloud complexity, announced today the availability of Pelanor AI Agent in the new AI Agents and Tools storefront in AWS Marketplace. This enables AWS customers to easily discover, buy, and deploy Pelanor’s autonomous FinOps AI solution using their AWS accounts, accelerating AI agent and agentic…
Seasoned executive brings extensive experience building high-performing partner ecosystems and scaling revenue across SaaS and data-driven businesses. Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX), which harnesses the power of AI and conversational intelligence to drive revenue acceleration and operational excellence, today announced the appointment of Paul Gallagher as Vice President of Channel Sales. In this new role, Gallagher will…
Confident Security builds a provably private AI inference engine for LLM providers, hyperscalers, governments and beyond Confident Security, a new technology enabling provably private AI interactions, today announced its public launch with $4.2M in funding. The round was backed by Decibel, South Park Commons, Ex Ante, and Swyx. As AI systems increasingly handle sensitive data,…
CrowdStrike positioned furthest right for Completeness of Vision and highest for Ability to Execute among all vendors evaluated for third time in a row CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) today announced it has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP)1 for the sixth consecutive time. For the third time in a row,…
Mapxus Technology (Founder and CEO: Dr John Chan, hereinafter “Mapxus”) has entered into a technology partnership with Ricoh Company, Ltd. (President and CEO: Akira Oyama, hereinafter “Ricoh”) to transform the fields of indoor digital mapping and 360-degree panoramic applications. Through this collaboration, users will be able to efficiently create indoor navigation systems and virtual tours…
On July 17, 2025, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Agent, transforming ChatGPT from a conversational assistant into a unified AI agent capable of autonomously executing complex, multi‑step tasks—from web browsing to code execution—on a virtual computer environment. Bridging Previous Capabilities ChatGPT Agent builds on two earlier tools: Operator, enabled limited web interactions—clicking, scrolling, and form‑filling—with a Browser‑based agent. Deep Research, provided…
Vision-language models (VLMs) play a crucial role in today’s intelligent systems by enabling a detailed understanding of visual content. The complexity of multimodal intelligence tasks has grown, ranging from scientific problem-solving to the development of autonomous agents. Current demands on VLMs have far exceeded simple visual content perception, with increasing attention on advanced reasoning. While…
While VLMs are strong at understanding both text and images, they often rely solely on text when reasoning, limiting their ability to solve tasks that require visual thinking, such as spatial puzzles. People naturally visualize solutions rather than describing every detail, but VLMs struggle to do the same. Although some recent models can generate both…