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Sumble emerges from stealth with $38.5M to bring AI-powered context to sales intelligence

techcrunch.com • Oct 22, 2025

The founders of machine learning community Kaggle are trying to upend the crowded sales prospecting market with AI. And they're making headway....

Fyra's Brief

Sumble, a startup founded by Kaggle co-founders, has raised $38.5 million in funding to develop an AI-driven sales platform that provides context to sales teams. The platform uses a knowledge graph and large language models to surface information about companies and their tech stacks.

Why it matters:

Sumble's emergence with $38.5 million in funding is a significant milestone in the AI-driven sales platform space, highlighting the need for contextual information in sales teams.

Funding

Train an LLM on an NVIDIA Blackwell Desktop with Unsloth—and Scale It

developer.nvidia.com • Yesterday

Fine-tuning and reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) require advanced expertise and complex workflows, making them out of reac...

Fyra's Brief

Unsloth, an open source framework, streamlines large language model fine-tuning and reinforcement learning, making it accessible to a wider community of practitioners.

Why it matters:

Unsloth democratizes access to large language model customization with its simplified and accelerated workflow.

Infrastructure

Dispatch: Partying at one of Africa’s largest AI gatherings

www.technologyreview.com • Oct 22, 2025

It’s late August in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, and people are filling a large hall at one of Africa’s biggest gatherings of minds in AI and machine lea...

Fyra's Brief

The Deep Learning Indaba, an annual AI conference in Africa, brings together researchers and experts to present their work and promote community engagement in AI policymaking.

Why it matters:

The Deep Learning Indaba is an important initiative for promoting community engagement in AI policymaking and encouraging the adoption of African-built AI products.

Opinion And Analysis

PokeeResearch-7B: An Open 7B Deep-Research Agent Trained with Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback (RLAIF) and a Robust Reasoning Scaffold

www.marktechpost.com • Oct 23, 2025

Pokee AI has open sourced PokeeResearch-7B, a 7B parameter deep research agent that executes full research loops, decomposes a query, issues search an...