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Israeli artificial intelligence company aiOla has recently made a major breakthrough in speech recognition technology and launched an open source speech recognition model called Whisper Medusa. The processing speed of this new model is 50% faster than OpenAI's Whisper model, which has attracted widespread attention in the industry. The core innovation of Whisper Medusa lies in its improved architecture design. aiOla modified the original architecture of Whisper and introduced a multi-head attention mechanism. This mechanism allows the model to use multiple &…

Recently, it was reported that the US Department of Justice is investigating Nvidia's acquisition of Israeli artificial intelligence startup Run:ai, suspecting that it may have violated antitrust regulations. This news has attracted widespread attention. In April this year, Nvidia announced the acquisition, but the price was not disclosed. According to TechCrunch's report, the acquisition price was estimated to be about US$700 million. The US Department of Justice has asked market participants about the competitive impact of the transaction. Source Note: The image is generated by AI, and the image is authorized by Midjourney. At present, the scope of the investigation is unclear. But…

Israeli artificial intelligence startup CytoReason recently announced that it has completed $80 million in financing, with investors including industry giants such as Nvidia, Pfizer, OurCrowd and Thermo Fisher Scientific. The company plans to use the funds to accelerate the development of its AI platform for disease modeling and drug discovery. CytoReason was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv. The AI platform developed by the company can extract insights from human disease data, create computational disease models for predictive therapies, and assist pharmaceutical researchers in making data-driven decisions. Its core technology is in the fine…

Apex, an Israeli AI security company, announced that it has completed a $7 million seed round of financing, which was co-led by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, with participation from several angel investors, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, generative AI capabilities have greatly improved across industries around the world. However, the rapid adoption of AI technology has brought a series of security challenges to enterprises, such as data breaches or AI-driven cyberattacks. Apex…