One red-hot category in the generative AI space is customer support, which isn’t surprising, really, when you consider the tech’s potential to cut contact center costs while increasing […]
Ashby injects recruiting with a dose of AI
Benjamin Encz’s path to entrepreneurship was long and unusual. Having previously worked as an R&D engineer at FX companies Industrial Light & Magic and DreamWorks on films like […]
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 […]
Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5-$3B valuation for its AI search platform, sources say
Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, is a hot property at the moment. TechCrunch has learned that the company is currently raising at least $250 million more at […]
Lina Khan, Steve Case & more join StrictlyVC in Washington, D.C.
Late last summer, TechCrunch joined forces with StrictlyVC to create smaller, more intimate evenings for our readers. Already this year, we’ve hosted these nights in San Francisco and […]
Another autonomous vehicle startup shutters, Zoox expands driverless testing and investor fervor for AI escalates
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Applied Intuition lands $6 billion valuation for AI-powered autonomous vehicle software
Autonomous vehicle software company Applied Intuition has raised $250 million in a round that values the startup at $6 billion, as it pushes to bring more artificial intelligence […]
Renowned investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo on the risks and rewards of funding AI tech: “The biggest threat to us in the short run is other people”
Last week, at our first StrictlyVC evening of the year, prominent AI investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo joined us in San Francisco to talk about how they […]
The rabbit r1 will use Perplexity AI’s tech to answer your queries
One of the standout gadgets of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the rabbit r1, will use Perplexity AI’s tech to answer user queries, both companies said in […]
Can Recraft’s foundational model for graphic design swerve the AI controversy?
Controversy continues to surround the world of AI-generated imagery, and even as AI-generated images used in elections became a source of concern this week at the World Economic […]