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Even three years after the generative AI boom started, most AI startups are still making money by selling to businesses, not individual consumers. Although consumers quickly adopted general-purpose LLMs like ChatGPT, most specialized consumer GenAI applications have yet to resonate. “A lot of early AI applications around video, audio, and photo were super cool,” said […]

Chai Discovery, a biotech startup with backing from OpenAI,announcedan $130 million Series B round at a $1.3 billion valuation on Monday. The round was led by General Catalyst and Oak HC/FT, the company said. Other participants include Menlo Ventures, OpenAI, Dimension, Thrive Capital, Neo, Yosemite venture fund, Lachy Groom, SV Angel, and new investors Glade

Disney’s three-year licensing partnership with OpenAI includes just one of exclusivity, Disney CEO Bob Igertold CNBC. The companysigned the partnershipwith OpenAI last week that will bring its iconic characters to the AI firm’s Sora video generator. Once that exclusive year is up, Disney is free to sign similar deals with other AI companies. The deal

Nvidia continues to expand its footprint in open source AI on two fronts: an acquisition and a new model release. The semiconductor giant announced Monday it acquired SchedMD, the leading developer of popular open source workload management systemSlurm. Nvidia said the company will continue to operate the program, which is designed for high-performance computing and

After announcing earlier this yeara frameworkfor an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commonshas come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of website content when accessed by machines, like AI webcrawlers. Creative Commons (CC) is best known for spearheading the licensing movement that allows creators to share their works while

At a time when very few companies have managed to IPO, Lightspeed was an early investor inRubrik,Netskope, andNavan, all of which have recently made their public market debuts. The firm has also positioned itself as a predominantly AI-focused investor. Lightspeed claims to have backed 165 AI-native companies, including Anthropic, xAI, Databricks, Mistral, Glean, Abridge, and

We've heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots about the generative AI race between the U.S. and China, as those have been the countries with the groups most active in fielding new models (with a shoutout to Cohere in Canada and Mistral in France). But now a Korean startup is making waves: last week, the

AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past twelve months, Merriam-Webster announced Sunday that its word of the year for 2025 is “slop.” The dictionarydefines the termas “digital content of low quality that

Presented by Capital One Software Tokenization is emerging as a cornerstone of modern data security, helping businesses separate the value of their data from its risk. During this VB in Conversation, Ravi Raghu, president, Capital One Software, talks about the ways tokenization can help reduce the value of breached data and preserve underlying data format

In a world that’s rapidly filling up with AI-generated content, a startup called First Voyage wants to help people avoid all the AI slop blasted their way and instead build the habits they want. And it’s doing that by way of an AI companion app: CalledMomo Self Care, the app offers a digital pet called