Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies
Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.Read More
Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean?
TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI’s latest mind-bending discoveryRead More
Google’s Genie 4 world model adds audio, more realistic worlds, and real-time steering
Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.Read...
Meta AI director Rohit Patel leaves to take on Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to...
Japan internet giant GMO says hackers posted stolen customer data
Japan’s GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.Read More
General Compute raises $100 million Series A, countering the neocloud disaster narrative
General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.Read More
Opera introduces a new web standard to let users deploy AI locally in their browser
The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.Read More
Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.Read More
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else’s AI agent.Read More