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Chinese artificial intelligence startup Zhipu AI unveiled a free AI agent on Monday, joining a wave of similar launches in China's increasingly competitive AI market.

Zenoti has hired several new execs over the past year, including Chief Financial Officer Sean Blitchok; Chief Customer Officer Steve Hudek; and Senior VP of Marketing Doug Sechrist. In 2023 it added Neal Singh, former chief operating officer at Icertis, as president and COO.

The deal will bring flagship model Claude, to thousands of corporate customers, including Comcast, Conde Nast and Block.

Synopsys , which makes software used to design semiconductors, on Wednesday introduced a technology it said will pave the way toward computers taking over many of the tasks in creating new computer chips.

HR technology company Phenom's new AI agents were designed in consideration of how roles can be different across various organizations.

Zoom's AI Companion is getting an "agentic" upgrade at the end of this month, allowing it to identify and perform tasks on users' behalf. Workspace users will be able to access the feature within a new Tasks tab in Workspace, where they can have Zoom's AI schedule follow-up meetings, generate documents from meetings, and create video clips.

Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France's most promising tech

Arize helps companies test and evaluate AI products as they are building them and observe them for errors once they are live.