Source: TechCrunch
Alchemist’s latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha
Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making some international moves into Tokyo and…
Devin Coldewey
May 21, 2024, 3:04 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows
Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. ChatGPT would…
Ron Miller
May 21, 2024, 2:04 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview
Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs)…
Frederic Lardinois
May 21, 2024, 1:04 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells
Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But like people, most decline with age. In California, for example, the amount…
Tim De Chant
May 21, 2024, 1:04 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Sonos finally made some headphones
The market play is clear from the outset: The $449 headphones are firmly targeted at an audience that would otherwise be purchasing the Bose QC Ultra or Apple AirPods Max.
Brian Heater
May 21, 2024, 1:04 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom
Adobe says the feature is up to the task, regardless of how complex of a background the object is set against.
Brian Heater
May 21, 2024, 1:04 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Porsche invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performance
All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batteries charge more slowly as the liquid electrolyte inside thickens.…
Tim De Chant
May 21, 2024, 12:04 p.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
ETF Partners raises €285M for climate startups that will be effective quickly — not 20 years down the road
The European venture capital firm raised its fourth fund as fund as climate tech “comes of age.”
Tim De Chant
May 21, 2024, 11:34 a.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
Scale AI, a company that provides data-labeling services for training machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors…
Paul Sawers
May 21, 2024, 11:34 a.m.
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Source: TechCrunch
EU Council gives final nod to set up risk-based regulations for AI
It’s a wrap: European Union lawmakers have given the final approval to set up the bloc’s flagship, risk-based regulations for artificial intelligence.
Natasha Lomas
May 21, 2024, 11:04 a.m.
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