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Glean, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to help companies search their own knowledge base, has raised $200 million in its latest funding round, signaling strong investor interest in startups that see popular demand for their AI-powered products.The funding, co-led by existing investors Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed Venture Partners, valued Glean at $2.2 billion, up from the $1 billion it was valued at when it last raised in May 2022.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering…

A lot has changed at HTC in the decade since a small team broke off to form its mixed reality division. In fact, it’s a fundamentally different business in several meaningful ways. For one thing, you can’t call HTC a phone company any longer. Contrary to popular perception, the Taiwanese corporation does still produce handsets — primarily mid-range devices for the Asia market. These days, the mixed reality business comprises the “vast majority” of HTC’s global business, says Dan O’Brien. We sat down with the Vive…

Google said on Wednesday that some of its artificial intelligence tools that it offers to businesses will be powered by the company's "Gemini" AI models and available at a lower-priced plan as it looks to compete with Microsoft-backed OpenAI.The Alphabet unit in August last year introduced "Duet AI in Workspace", a set of AI assistants that could write in Google Docs, draft emails in Gmail and generate custom visuals in Google Slides, among other capabilities, at a monthly price of $30 per user for companies.Elevate Your…

Generative AI such as OpenAI's ChatGPT has been the focus of controversy because of the way that the program is trained on vast data sets compromising multiple hundreds of gigabytes worth of data.The data sets are the subject of multiple lawsuits by parties including The New York Times, alleging infringement of copyright. OpenAI has said it will indemnify enterprise users of its software against suits. In addition to infringement issues, creators of Gen AI are dealing with questions of where authoritative answers will…

For years, we’ve been hearing about virtual and augmented reality use cases in business around manufacturing, field service and product design, but for the most part, the notion has failed to take hold in a big way. The question now is whether the Apple Vision Pro (AVP), released last week with much ballyhoo, will move the needle at all when it comes to shifting these kinds of devices into the enterprise mainstream. While most people use terms like “augmented reality,” “virtual reality” or even “metaverse” (thanks,…

In a move to enhance collaboration and connectivity options for enterprises in India, Tata Communications has…

June Wan/ZDNETWe've heard the Apple Vision ProVision Pro's enterprise device management suggests Apple sees the enterprise sector as a significant market for the Vision Pro. Making the Vision Pro manageable for IT departments alongside other Apple devices simplifies the deployment, security, and management within business organizations, which could encourage more enterprises to adopt Apple's technologies. Also: My 5 biggest takeaways from iFixit's Apple Vision Pro teardownApple has always sold the Vision Pro as a…

The Galaxy S24 might be one of the best smartphones for business customers, as it employs new AI features like Chat Assist, Summarize, Auto-Format, Interpreter, AI Live Translation, and others, all of which can help potentially help the workflow of enterprise users. It only makes sense for Samsung to release an official Enterprise Edition Galaxy S24. As of this writing, the Enterprise Edition treatment is available for customers in Germany exclusively for the base Galaxy S24 model with 128GB of storage in Onyx Black. The…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETThe standard version of ChatGPT has proven to be a very capable tool with the ability to do tasks such as coding, writing, and explaining complex topics. Naturally, companies wanted to leverage the technology for their own use cases to optimize their business operations. As a result, OpenAI introduced two options for businesses: ChatGPT Enterprise and ChatGPT Team. Also: ChatGPT vs ChatGPT Plus: Is it worth the subscription fee?ChatGPT for Enterprise launched in August 2023, nine months after the…

Last year, I met with the head of sustainability at a large software vendor. He was touting his company’s commitment to becoming carbon net-zero by 2030 – balancing its responsibility for the production of greenhouse gases with an equal commitment to the removal of such gases (mainly carbon dioxide, or CO2) from the atmosphere. Many companies – both software vendors as well as a broad spectrum of organizations across industries – have a similar promise. There are two sides to this commitment: reduction of the amount of…