Source: TechCrunch
Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups
Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of…
Maxwell Zeff
Aug. 1, 2024, 1:32 p.m.
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Indian startups gut valuations ahead of IPO push
Two large Indian startups, Ola Electric and FirstCry, are set to test investor appetite with their public listings this month, but both have had to price their shares below their previous valuations as they come to terms with new market realities. Ola Electric, India’s biggest electric two-wheeler maker, aims to…
Manish Singh
Aug. 1, 2024, 1:02 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for Y Combinator startups
Google Cloud is giving Y Combinator startups access to a dedicated, subsidized cluster of Nvidia graphics processing units and Google tensor processing units to build AI models. It’s part of…
Maxwell Zeff
Aug. 1, 2024, 1:02 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
The EU’s AI Act is now in force
The European Union’s risk-based regulation for applications of artificial intelligence has come into force starting from today.
Natasha Lomas
Aug. 1, 2024, 12:02 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Healx, an AI-enabled drug discovery platform for rare diseases, raises $47M
Healx, a U.K. startup using AI to discover new drugs for rare diseases, has raised $47 million in a Series C round of funding co-led by Europe’s Atomico and Silicon…
Paul Sawers
Aug. 1, 2024, 11:02 a.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
EU greenlights HPE’s $14B Juniper Networks acquisition
The European Commission (EC) has given the go-ahead to HPE’s planned megabucks acquisition of Juniper Networks, concluding that the proposed transaction “would raise no competition concerns in the European Economic…
Paul Sawers
Aug. 1, 2024, 10:32 a.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Axle Energy’s sprint to decarbonize the grid lights up with $9M seed led by Accel
Axle Energy is a B2B, back-end infrastructure business focused on connecting flexible assets, such as electric vehicles and home batteries, to energy markets that aren’t otherwise available for consumers to…
Natasha Lomas
Aug. 1, 2024, 8:02 a.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Zuckerberg says Meta will need 10x more computing power to train Llama 4 than Llama 3
Meta, which develops one of the biggest foundational open-source large language models, Llama, believes it will need significantly more computing power to train models in the future. Mark Zuckerberg said…
Ivan Mehta
Aug. 1, 2024, 8:02 a.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
OpenAI pledges to give U.S. AI Safety Institute early access to its next model
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that OpenAI is working with the U.S. AI Safety Institute, a federal government body that aims to assess and address risks in AI platforms, on…
Kyle Wiggers
Aug. 1, 2024, 6:02 a.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Meta says India is the largest market for Meta AI usage
WhatsApp’s massive 500 million users in India have supercharged Meta’s AI ambitions. Meta CFO Susan Li said Wednesday that India is the largest market in terms of Meta AI usage,…
Ivan Mehta
Aug. 1, 2024, 4:02 a.m.
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