Sesame, a conversational AI startup and smart glasses maker, has raised a $250 million Series B round and is opening up its beta to a select group of testers, the company announced Tuesday. The startup, headed by former Oculus co-founder and CEOBrendan IribeandAnkit Kumar, former CTO ofAR startup Ubiquity6, is working to create a personal […]
Today, OpenAI launchedits new Atlas web browserin a surprise livestream. The showstarted with CEO Sam Altman himself, speaking directly to the audience. “We think AI represents a rare, once-a-decade opportunity to rethink what a browser can be,” Altman said. “In the same way that, for the previous way people used the internet, the URL bar and
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Fal.ai, a startup that hosts image, video, and audio AI models for developers, has closed a new round valuing the company at over $4 billion, four people familiar with the deal said. The company raised approximately $250 million, two of the people said. Major investors in the round are Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, according to
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After earlier this year launching a marketplacethat allows websites to charge AI botsfor scraping their content, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare is pushing for increased regulation in the AI sector. The company’s chief executive Matthew Prince says he’s in London to speak with the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where he’s proposing stricter rules on
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s famously prolific Qwen Team of AI model researchers and engineers has introduced a major expansion to its Qwen Deep Research tool, which is available as an optional modality the user can activate on the web-based Qwen Chat (a competitor to ChatGPT). The update lets users generate not only comprehensive research reports
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence research company that has repeatedly challenged assumptions about AI development costs, has released a new model that fundamentally reimagines how large language models process information—and the implications extend far beyond its modest branding as an optical character recognition tool. The company's DeepSeek-OCR model, released Monday with full open-source code and
I’ve often joked that I would love to have a pet if only animals did not need to poop and eat smelly, wet mush from a can. I want a fuzzy pal to hang out with all day, but then I’ll hear that my friend spent $500 at the vet because their cat nibbled on
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Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari currently dominate the web browser market, with Chrome holding a significant share due to the tech giant’s ongoing innovations, particularly in integrating generative AI into its search functionalities. However, users seeking alternatives will find a variety of browsers aiming to challenge these industry giants. To help navigate the competitive landscape
Codi, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup founded by Christelle Rohaut and Dave Schuman, is launching what it hails as the first AI-powered platform to fully automate office management. Codi was founded in 2018, in a pre-pandemic world, with a mission to help companies find flexible office spaces. It was more of a marketplace, as TechCrunch previously reported, that matched companies
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Google AI Studio has gotten a big vibe coding upgrade with a new interface, buttons, suggestions and community features that allow anyone with an idea for an app — even complete novices, laypeople, or non-developers like yours truly — to bring it into existence and deploy it live, on the web, for anyone to use,
