What does ‘open source AI’ mean, anyway?
The Open Source Initiative is trying to address the debate stirring around the notion of "open-source AI." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
22 junho, 2024
Tesla makes Musk best-paid CEO of all time and Fisker bites the dust
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Elon Musk just convinced Tesla shareholders to approve his $56 billion pay package, making him the...
21 junho, 2024
Dot’s AI really, really wants to get to know you
Dot is a new AI companion and chatbot that thrives on getting to know your innermost thoughts and feelings. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
21 junho, 2024
E-fuels startup Aether Fuels is raising $34.3 million, per filing
The e-fuels startup is working on producing fuel for aviation and maritime shipping using carbon dioxide and other waste carbon streams. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
21 junho, 2024
OpenAI buys Rockset to bolster its enterprise AI
OpenAI has acquired a company, Rockset, building tools to drive real-time search and data analytics. In a post on its official blog, OpenAI said that it would integrate Rockset’s technology to “power [its] infrastructure across products.” Members of Rockset’s team will join OpenAI, and Rockset’s...
21 junho, 2024
OpenAI buys Rockset to bolster its enterprise AI
OpenAI has acquired a company, Rockset, building tools to drive real-time search and data analytics. In a post on its official blog, OpenAI said that it would integrate Rockset’s technology to “power [its] infrastructure across products.” Members of Rockset’s team will join OpenAI, and Rockset’s...
21 junho, 2024
Khosla-backed Marble, built by former Headway founders, offers affordable group therapy for teens
Rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts are surging among U.S. teens. A recent report from the Center of Disease Control found that nearly one in three girls have seriously considered suicide, and a significant number, 13% have actually attempted it. Psychologists have various theories...
21 junho, 2024
A new startup from Figure’s founder is licensing NASA tech in a bid to curb school shootings
Cover says what sets it apart is the underlying technology it employs, which has been exclusively licensed from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
21 junho, 2024
Meta is tagging real photos as ‘Made with AI,’ say photographers
Photographers say the social media giant is applying a ‘Made with AI’ label to photos they took, causing confusion for users. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
21 junho, 2024
My Memories Are Just Meta’s Training Data Now
Meta’s plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram users to train algorithms suggest our digital histories are being repackaged to teach AI about—and how to mimic—humanity....
21 junho, 2024
Kevin Hartz’s A* raises its second oversubscribed fund in three years
Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $81.8 billion total. While emerging managers are feeling the fundraising market’s frost the most, some emerging VCs like A* have enough name recognition, and...
21 junho, 2024
Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something....
21 junho, 2024
Zepto, a 10-minute delivery app, raises $665 million at $3.6 billion valuation
Zepto has more than doubled its valuation to $3.6 billion from $1.4 billion in less than a year in a new funding round of $665 million as the Mumbai-based startup intensifies the quick commerce competition in the world’s second largest internet market. Zepto sells and...
21 junho, 2024
Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation
Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
21 junho, 2024
Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation
Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
21 junho, 2024
Brex’s compliance head has left the fintech startup to join Andreessen Horowitz as a partner
Ali Rathod-Papier has stepped down from her role as global head of compliance at corporate card expense management startup Brex to join venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as a partner and compliance officer, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Rathod-Papier and a16z declined to comment on the...
20 junho, 2024
Poolside is raising $400M+ at a $2B valuation to build a supercharged coding co-pilot
Paris has quickly established itself as a major European center for AI startups, and now another big deal is in the works. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
20 junho, 2024
Influencer shopping app LTK gets an automatic direct message tool
LTK (formerly LiketoKnow.it and RewardStyle), the influencer shopping app with 40 million monthly users, announced on Thursday the launch of a free direct message tool for creators to instantly share pre-set responses with followers. The new tool, called LTK DM, is integrated into the posts...
20 junho, 2024
Labor shortages are still fueling growth at automation firms like GrayMatter
GrayMatter self-reports that its systems currently produce “a 2~4x improvement in production line productivity [and a] 30% or more reduction in consumable waste.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
20 junho, 2024
PayPal Ventures leads $20M round into Gynger, which offers companies ‘buy now, pay later’ for technology purchases
Gynger, a platform that lends capital to companies for technology purchases, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by PayPal Ventures, it told TechCrunch exclusively. The financing brings the New York-based startup’s total venture capital raised to $31.7 million and included participation...
20 junho, 2024
Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class
Claude 3.5 Sonnet can analyze both text and images as well as generate text, and it's Anthropic's best-performing model yet — at least on paper. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
20 junho, 2024
Pocket FM partners with ElevenLabs to convert scripts into audio content quickly
Lightspeed Ventures-backed audio platform Pocket FM just announced that it has partnered with voice cloning company ElevenLabs to quickly convert text content, such as script, into audio series using AI. Pocket FM, which raised $103 million in Series D funding in March, told TechCrunch at...
20 junho, 2024
We’re Still Waiting for the Next Big Leap in AI
Anthropic’s latest Claude AI model pulls ahead of rivals from OpenAI and Google. But advances in machine intelligence have lately been more incremental than revolutionary....
20 junho, 2024
Roots introduces a screen time app for tracking ‘digital dopamine’
As the U.S. Surgeon General is calling for a warning label on social media sites, similar to those found on tobacco products, one startup is launching a set of new tools that put the power to fight app addiction into users’ own hands. Designed for...
20 junho, 2024
Materia looks to make accountants more efficient with AI
The U.S. is facing an accountant shortage. Fewer first-time candidates took the CPA exam in 2022 than in 2006, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. One possible reason people aren’t as interested in the field is the large amount of drudge work...
20 junho, 2024
Materia looks to make accountants more efficient with AI
The U.S. is facing an accountant shortage. Fewer first-time candidates took the CPA exam in 2022 than in 2006, according to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. One possible reason people aren’t as interested in the field is the large amount of drudge work...
20 junho, 2024
Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia
Christopher O’Donnell has hobbies. He likes music and playing guitar, but above all, he loves building software. Which is why three years after leaving HubSpot, he built Day.ai, a CRM for the age AI. Unlike modern CRMs, which are essentially giant spreadsheets that somebody needs...
20 junho, 2024
Daydream rakes in $50M seed funding to build an AI-powered search engine suited for e-commerce
For retailers, e-commerce is a bit of a puzzle at the moment. Online shopping trends are expected to stay strong this year, so companies can’t afford to curtail their e-commerce budgets, but at the same time, e-commerce is more fragmented than ever before. There is...
20 junho, 2024
Amazon extends generative AI-powered product listings to Europe
Amazon is bringing its generative AI listing smarts to more sellers, revealing today that those in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. can now access tools designed to improve product listings by generating product descriptions, titles, and associated details. Additionally, sellers can also “enrich”...
20 junho, 2024
Kenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspension
Worldcoin — the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning and other operations in Kenya after a year-long government probe over privacy concerns was dropped. Kenya was one of the Worldcoin’s launch countries for its...
20 junho, 2024
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