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Amazon buys Bee AI wearable
OpenAI inks $30B/year Oracle cloud deal
Reka AI hits unicorn with $110M round
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NEWS UPDATES
Amazon buys Bee AI wearable
Amazon bought Bee, a lapel-sized recorder that transcribes every word you say, then pipes the text into Alexa and enterprise apps. The device already integrates with Slack and Salesforce for instant meeting notes. Amazon plans to bundle it with AWS voice services and Echo devices later this year.
Hands-free capture plus auto-sync could kill manual note-taking across sales, service, and ops. Pilot two executives for a week; if accuracy holds, you’ll free hours now spent writing call summaries.
OpenAI inks $30B/year Oracle cloud deal
OpenAI signed a long-term contract that locks up huge blocks of Oracle’s GPU racks and 100% renewable power. The deal nearly doubles Oracle Cloud’s AI revenue overnight and signals OpenAI’s demand will outstrip Azure alone. Oracle gains model-training prestige; OpenAI hedges against single-vendor risk.
For procurement, this is a flashing yellow light: GPU supply will tighten. Secure multi-year capacity or consider lower-spec inferencing models before pricing rises again.
Reka AI hits unicorn with $110M round
Reka, which builds multimodal foundation models for enterprise search, raised $110 million at a $1 billion valuation. Snowflake will embed Reka embeddings into its AI Data Cloud, while Nvidia supplies H200 chips to train the next model. Reka says its newest small model beats Llama-3-8B on retrieval tasks at half the cost.
That tie-up means turnkey GenAI inside Snowflake dashboards. Data teams should test Reka embeddings on internal documents; faster, cheaper semantic search could offset pricey vector-database licenses.
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STRATEGIC AI DECISION
OpenAI’s $30 B Oracle deal tells CIOs to lock down what first?
MARKET
💰 Funding
Scrunch AI raised $15M to sharpen AI search quality.
Franzy secured $2.2M seed for a franchise-resale marketplace.
💼 Who’s Hiring in AI
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