人工智能初创公司Cohere在5亿美元融资后裁员

币界网Pubblicato 2024-07-23Pubblicato ultima volta 2024-07-23

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CNBC证实,由前谷歌人工智能研究人员创立并得到Nvidia支持的人工智能初创公司Cohere周二裁员约20人。据该公司称,Cohere拥有约400名员工,此前该公司完成了一轮5亿美元的融资,投资者包括AMD、Salesforce、Oracle和Nvidia,对该公司的估值为55亿美元,比去年翻了一番多。据Cohere.com网站称,尽管裁员,但Cohere.com仍在客户运营、合作伙伴关系、收入、销售、产品设计和建模等领域进行招聘。Cohere的商业模式由前谷歌人工智能研究人员创立,并得到Nvidia的支持,其核心是为企业生成人工智能,而不是消费者聊天机器人,自2022年底OpenAI发布ChatGPT以来,消费者聊天机器人一直是科技行业的热门话题。2023年6月,Cohere以22亿美元的估值筹集了2.7亿美元,Salesforce和Oracle参与了这轮融资。公司高管也参加了白宫的人工智能论坛。该公司的一位代表在一份声明中告诉CNBC:“随着我们最近一轮融资的到位,我们对Cohere的未来有了清晰的愿景,这需要一些内部调整。”。“我们将继续积极招聘员工,为公司提供市场上最准确、最安全、最私密的多语言人工智能解决方案。”《财富》杂志首次报道了裁员情况。根据PitchBook的数据,生成人工智能领域在过去一年中呈爆炸式增长,2023年在近700笔交易中投资了创纪录的291亿美元,交易价值比去年同期增长了260%以上。它已成为企业财报电话会议上一季度又一季度最热门的短语,某种形式的技术正在几乎每个行业实现任务自动化,从金融服务和生物医学研究到物流、在线旅游和公用事业Cohere在人工智能军备竞赛中的一些竞争对手为消费者和企业提供产品。例如,OpenAI于去年8月推出了ChatGPT Enterprise,Anthropic于去年7月开放了消费者对其以前仅限业务的Claude聊天机器人的访问。Cohere总裁兼首席运营官Martin Kon在3月份告诉CNBC,通过专注于企业AI,即使在芯片短缺、图形处理单元(GPU)成本上升和AI模型许可费不断变化的情况下,该公司也能够高效运行并控制成本。根据Cohere的网站,目前的客户包括Notion、Oracle和Bamboo HR。Kon过去曾告诉CNBC,许多客户包括银行、金融服务和保险行业的企业。11月,Cohere告诉CNBC,在OpenAI突然临时罢免首席执行官Sam Altman后,客户兴趣有所上升。今年3月,Kon承认,硬件行业不断变化的动态带来了持续的挑战。Kon当时表示,该公司已经储备了两年多的谷歌芯片,这些芯片是在Cohere早期获得的,以帮助其对模型进行预训练。现在,Cohere正朝着使用更多Nvidia的H100 GPU的方向发展,这些GPU为大多数最新的大型语言模型提供动力
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