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 […]
A peek at how things work today inside Alphabet’s $7 billion growth-stage investing arm, CapitalG
Almost a year ago, Alphabet’s growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit’s founder, David Lawee, stepped down. Few […]
Probabl is a new AI company built around popular library scikit-learn
Probabl isn’t your average AI startup as this new French company is an Inria spin-off company that revolves around an open-source data science library called scikit-learn — Inria […]
Kore.ai, a startup building conversational AI for enterprises, raises $150M
In the midst of a wave of tech industry layoffs, it’s heartening to see some startups succeeding despite the dour market outlook. Kore.ai, a company developing enterprise-focused conversational […]
Anomalo’s machine learning approach to data quality is growing like gangbusters
When Anomalo’s co-founders left Instacart in 2018, they thought they could put machine learning to work to solve data quality problems inherent in large data sets. Five years […]
Arcee is a secure, enterprise-focused platform for building GenAI
While working at Hugging Face, engineers Mark McQuade and Brian Benedict ran into challenges helping enterprise customers adopt GenAI. Some companies didn’t want to use closed-source AI APIs […]
Google Chrome gains AI features including a writing helper, theme creator, and tab organizer
Google’s Chrome web browser is getting an infusion of AI technology in the latest release. The company announced today it’s soon adding a trio of new AI-powered features […]
International Battery Company powers up with $35M funding to bridge EV gap in India
International Battery Company, a startup developing lithium-ion battery cells for electric vehicles, has raised $35 million as it plans to bridge the demand-supply gap in the growing EV […]
Connect with FYELABS, Skillcloud Consulting Group and Wiggin and Dana LLP at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024
Startup magic doesn’t just happen. It takes talent, skill, experience, hard work and more. The same is true for creating TechCrunch Early Stage 2024, a world-class startup conference […]
This week in AI: Microsoft’s sticks an AI ad on keyboards
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in […]