Pushing the boundaries of immersive characters:  Our investment in Inworld.AI

Convergence of voice, gaming, and immersive technologies Humans have long communicated through voice, benefitting from a seamless ability to convey information and emotion through speech. And while translating the characteristics and benefits of voice to enterprise scenarios has been a challenge, there’s no denying that voice as an interface is one of the most promising … Continued

Inworld AI Closes $50M Series A to Populate Video Games and the Metaverse with Interactive AI-Driven Characters

Funding led by Section32 and Intel Capital, alongside participation in the Disney Accelerator, will empower developers to create interactive AI-driven characters for virtual worlds SAN FRANCISCO, AUGUST 23, 2022  – Inworld AI, a developer platform for creating AI-driven virtual characters, founded by conversational AI pioneers Ilya Gelfenbeynn, Michael Ermolenko, and Kylan Gibbs, today announced the … Continued

Anyscale Unveils Ray 2.0 and Anyscale Innovations at Ray Summit 2022; Adds an Additional $99M Funding from Existing Investors Addition, Intel Capital, and Foundation Capital

SAN FRANCISCO – (August 23, 2022) – Anyscale, the company behind Ray, the unified framework for scalable computing, today announced Ray 2.0 and the enterprise-ready capabilities and roadmap for Anyscale’s managed Ray platform at the Ray Summit. This year’s Summit features dozens of organizations scaling their AI initiatives with Ray including Uber, IBM, Meta, Riot … Continued

Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Additional funding brings Series D round to $320M total Trevor Fetter, MBA, senior lecturer on the faculty of Harvard Business School and former longtime Tenet Healthcare chairman and CEO, named to Board Sachin H. Jain, physician executive with government, pharmaceutical, payer and provider experience, joins Board BOSTON, August 10, 2022 – Biofourmis, a Boston-based global … Continued

The Compute Layer for the Modern, Distributed Cloud: Our Investments in Fly.io

It all began with a simple question we asked ourselves: If you were a full-stack developer and could take an existing application, package it in a Docker image, and distribute it as close to your end-users as possible using a wonderful developer experience without any refactoring, why wouldn’t you? This question was prompted by an … Continued

Fly.io Raises $12 Million Series A Funding Led by Intel Capital and $25M Series B Funding Led by Andreessen Horowitz to Revolutionize the Distributed Cloud

Fly.io provides a compatible edge-first cloud and unlocks the ability to collaborate with anyone, anytime and anywhere CHICAGO, IL – July 28, 2022 – Fly.io, an application delivery network company, has raised $12 million in Series A funding led by Intel Capital and $25M in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other participants in … Continued

Caresyntax collaborates with Intel to help address acute staffing shortage in healthcare

Caresyntax plans to enhance its data-driven surgery platform with advanced AI capabilities powered by Intel technology including the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ Toolkit and Intel® Core™ Processors Caresyntax’s technology enhancements will help perioperative leaders to rapidly onboard new clinicians and travel nurses and mitigate acute staffing shortages Other “smart surgery” capabilities, also powered by Intel, … Continued

Quantifi Photonics raises $15M in Series C funding round led by Intel Capital

The latest funding will fast track development of high-density test solutions for datacom and telecom equipment manufacturers, critical to support the ramp to 800G. Auckland, New Zealand, July 21, 2022 – Quantifi Photonics, an emerging leader in high-density photonics test and measurement, announced today that it has secured US $15 million in a fully-subscribed Series … Continued

Same Same (APIs), but different (security level)

Productivity and scalability of confidential data At Intel Capital, we are passionate about building a more efficient future. The ability to utilize data, create robust infrastructure and increase security will get us there – and Opaque hits the heart of all three. Fifteen months ago, we led the seed round for a multi-disciplinary founding team … Continued

Opaque Systems Raises $22 Million in Series A Funding To Bring Scalable, Multi-Party Analytics and AI to Confidential Computing

Founded by the pioneers of the MC2 open source project from UC Berkeley RiseLab, Opaque creates the first collaborative analytics and AI platform for confidential computing BERKELEY, CA – June 28, 2022 – Opaque Systems, the pioneers of collaborative analytics and AI for confidential computing, today announced it has raised $22 million in Series A … Continued