SambaNova, an AI chip startup that’s raised over $1.1 billion in VC money to date, is gunning for OpenAI — and rivals — with a new generative AI […]
Diffusion transformers are the key behind OpenAI’s Sora — and they’re set to upend GenAI
OpenAI’s Sora, which can generate videos and interactive 3D environments on the fly, is a remarkable demonstration of the cutting edge in GenAI — a bonafide milestone. But […]
Confirmed: Photoroom, the AI image editor, raised $43M at a $500M valuation
Photoroom, the AI-based photo editing app out of Paris that has been growing like a weed targeting people doing business online while also attracting a lot of casual […]
Historic spacecraft landing double-header from Varda, Intuitive Machines
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. My stomach is still in knots from the Intuitive Machines landing livestream. I think it’s fair to say that the words […]
DatologyAI is building tech to automatically curate AI training data sets
Massive training data sets are the gateway to powerful AI models — but often, also those models’ downfall. Biases emerge from prejudicial patterns concealed in large data sets, […]
NodeShift wants to challenge the hyperscalers with its decentralized cloud
When the large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to discount it through programs like AWS’s and Azure’s spot instances. Any time a server idles, it […]
Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery
Clumio, a data backup and recovery provider for companies using the public cloud, has raised $75 million in a Series D round of funding. The raise comes as […]
Big Tech AI infrastructure tie-ups set for deeper scrutiny, says EU antitrust chief
The impact of AI must be front of mind for enforcers of merger control policy, the European Union’s antitrust chief and digital EVP, Margrethe Vestager, said yesterday, warning […]
Jua raises $16M to build a foundational AI model for the natural world, starting with the weather
Large AI models — the big troves of language, vision and audio data that power generative artificial intelligence services — are shaping up to be as significant in […]
AI pushes quarterly cloud infrastructure revenue to $74B globally
For the last several quarters we’ve seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers than we’ve been accustomed to seeing in […]