Tag: startup

Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500M funding round

AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the startup at $9 billion. Bloomberg, citing sources familiar, reports that...

Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is founding an AI startup backed by a16z

Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch, is launching a new AI startup, TechCrunch has learned. The startup, called Stem AI, is currently...

Cartesia claims its AI is efficient enough to run pretty much anywhere

It’s becoming increasingly costly to develop and run AI. OpenAI’s AI operations costs could reach $7 billion this year, while Anthropic’s CEO recently suggested that...

Elon Musk’s xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. Investors gave...

This ex-Scale AI leader built a platform to automatically extracts insights from customer feedback

In this hyperconnected world we live in, it’s easier than ever to send feedback to the companies we patronize. But just because businesses...

Perplexity mulls getting into hardware

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s founder and CEO, posted on X yesterday that...