The whale logo of DeepSeek is making a splash across all corners of the internet this week, as the company claims to have delivered an AI rival to the US giants at a fraction of the cost.

SWTD sat down with Anthony Peake, CEO of Intelligent AI , to pick his brains on what the developments mean for the AI sector.

Firstly - are we to trust what DeepSeek is claiming?

There has...

The UK's artificial intelligence sector is attracting an unprecedented £200 million in daily private investment, as new opportunities emerge for growing AI firms in the South West.

According to figures released by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, private sector investment in AI has reached an average of £8.3 million per hour since last summer, with more than £14...

Rocketmakers Labs has released a AI-powered market research tool to bridge the gap between primary and secondary data.

YourRoom allows marketers to quickly and cheaply test early-stage ideas before moving onto more expensive research methods.

The product was named Best AI Innovation and Best AI Solution at the 2024 Global Business Tech Awards earlier this year, while...

Oriole Networks , a member of Torbay's EPIC Centre, has raised an additional $22 million from leading investors to further scale its “super-brain” solution.

The company uses light to train large language models with a fraction of the usual AI energy consumption.

The investment round was led by Plural with all existing investors – UCL Technology Fund, XTX Ventures, Clean...

Nesti, a UK-based sales tech AI startup, celebrates closing its pre-seed funding round early.

Nesti, a platform designed to equip sales development teams to exceed their targets with personalised outbound videos at scale, has secured £250,000 in a competitive pre-seed funding round, led by SFC Capital. This investment will help Nesti maintain its pace of innovation, build out its...

The University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) has modernised its approach to analysing student feedback by implementing Explorance MLY, an advanced AI-powered analytics tool.

This move aims to streamline the process of evaluating qualitative feedback from institutional programme evaluations, the National Student Survey (NSS), and the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES...

Angel Investors Bristol (AIB), a leading angel investment group in the South West of England that launched in Autumn 2024, has announced its third deal in the space of just six months.

AIB’s latest investment is in Big Business Intelligence Limited (trading as distil.ai). distil.ai is an Exeter-based company that uses data science and AI to aggregate numerous and disparate data...

Plymouth Marjon University has adopted Studiosity’s new AI learning technology to give students formative feedback on their written work within minutes, in a further enhancement to its 24/7 study skills service.

Studiosity+ , which launched in February, provides fast, ethical and equitable delivery of academic writing feedback to all students, supporting satisfaction, completion and...

The South West Business Council (SWBC) has announced that the Shadow Minister for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Intellectual Property, Matt Rodda, will deliver the keynote address at their conference: ‘Harnessing the Power of AI: Meeting the Challenges’ on 16th February 2024 at the Great Hall, University of Exeter.

The event, co-sponsored by tech giants Microsoft, specialist law...

Leading innovator in pipeline technology, Exeter-based Klarian , has released details of its transformative AI solution, that has the potential to dramatically reduce carbon emissions associated with critical national infrastructure.

The solution takes a hybrid approach to pipeline condition monitoring and anomaly detection by combining physics-based insights with machine learning...