Google's Gemini is around the corner

Hello folks, here’s what we have today;

 Our picks 

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Google’s Gemini might come sooner than expected. The scoop from The Information says that some companies are getting early access to a large version of Gemini. It is reported to have lesser hallucinations, better coding power, and other features such as chart analysis.

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Anthropic partners with Boston Consulting Group. Anthropic will provide access to Claude 2 to a) the internal teams of BCG and b) enterprise customers of BCG. That’s a big customer base with multiple use cases: market research, fraud detection, report generation, business analysis and more.

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Databricks has raised $500M in its series I with a valuation of $43B. It’s previous valuation was $38B when it raised $1.5B in August 2021. Nvidia, a16z, and Tiger Global are part of this funding round.

psss: a bunch of funding-related news today in the news section.

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