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The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024 | TechCrunch
Dec 13, 2024 · A-B. Abridge. HQ location: Pittsburgh Funding raised to date (per PitchBook): $464 million Examples of VC backers: Union Square Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, IVP What the startup does: Uses AI to ...
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If climate tech is dead, what comes next? | TechCrunch
5 days ago · Tim De Chant is a senior climate reporter at TechCrunch. He has written for a wide range of publications, including Wired magazine, the Chicago Tribune, Ars Technica, The Wire China, and NOVA Next ...
OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations
5 days ago · OpenAI has reportedly completed at least two large training runs, which aim to improve a model by training it on enormous quantities of data. An initial training run went slower than expected ...
The promise and perils of synthetic data | TechCrunch
2 days ago · Companies large and small rely on workers employed by data annotation firms to create labels for AI training sets. Some of these jobs pay reasonably well, particularly if the labeling requires ...
Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for …
Oct 13, 2024 · Data centers, and the big companies that rely on them, are scrambling for power. Last month Microsoft inked a deal with Constellation Energy to restart its nuclear reactor on Three Mile Island to ...
Nvidia clears regulatory hurdle to acquire Run:ai | TechCrunch
5 days ago · Chip company Nvidia gets the green light from the European Union to complete its acquisition of Run:ai. The EU came to a unanimous decision today that Nvidia could go ahead with its acquisition of ...
This Week in AI: AI is rapidly being commoditized | TechCrunch
Aug 28, 2024 · Generative AI vendors are burning through cash — fast. OpenAI is said to be on track to lose $5 billion this year, while rival Anthropic projects that it will be over $2.7 billion in the hole by ...
AI and data infrastructure drives demand for open source startups
Mar 26, 2024 · A new report highlights the demand for startups building open source tools and technologies for the snowballing AI revolution, with the adjacent data infrastructure vertical also heating up.