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The Rockset buy fits into OpenAI’s broader recent strategy of investing heavily in its enterprise sales and tech orgs.
Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet can analyze both text and images as well as generate text, and it’s Anthropic’s best-performing model yet — at least on paper.
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing — a discouraging new development on the disinformation…
Genspark taps generative AI to write custom summaries in response to search queries.
Decagon is a generative AI platform that automates various aspects of customer support channels.
SurrealDB, a startup developing a database architecture of the same name, has closed a new round of funding as it readies a managed service.
SewerAI sells cloud-based, AI-powered subscription products designed to streamline field inspections and data management of sewer infrastructure.
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code…
DeepMind says that it sees the tech, V2A (short for “video-to-audio”), as an essential piece of the AI-generated media puzzle.
The race to high-quality, AI-generated videos is heating up. On Monday, Runway, a company building generative AI tools geared toward film and image content creators, unveiled Gen-3 Alpha. The company’s latest…
How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans
OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free.
To sweeten the pot, Amazon is pledging that startups in this year’s Generative AI Accelerator cohort will gain access to experts and tech from Nvidia, the program’s presenting partner.
Out of an abundance of caution, the car took two minutes to turn a corner.
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, Apple stole the spotlight. At the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino, Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence,…
Helen Toner worries ‘not super functional’ Congress will flub AI policy
Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member and the director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, is worried Congress might react in a “knee-jerk” way where…
Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst founded Spawning AI to create tools that help artists exert more control over how their works are used online. Their latest project, called Source.Plus, is…
Thanks to Apple’s newfound — and heavy — investment in generative AI tech, the company had loads to showcase on the AI front, from an upgraded Siri to AI-generated emoji.
Cognigy is helping create AI that can handle the highly repetitive, rote processes center workers face daily.
Soon, Siri will be able to tap ChatGPT for “expertise” where it might be helpful, Apple says.
Siri is now more natural, more relevant and more personal — and it has new look.
At Apple’s WWDC 2024, the company announced MacOS Sequoia.
VisionOS 2 will come to Vision Pro as a free update later this year.
A growing number of businesses are embracing data models — abstract models that organize elements of data and standardize how they relate to one another. But as the data analytics…
Study finds that AI models hold opposing views on controversial topics
The models tended to answer questions inconsistently, which reflects biases embedded in the data used to train the models.
The buy will benefit ChromeOS, Google’s lightweight Linux-based operating system, by giving ChromeOS users greater access to Windows apps “without the hassle of complex installations or updates.”
Mistral launches new services and SDK to let customers fine-tune its models
Mistral is no doubt looking to grow revenue as it faces considerable — and growing — competition in the generative AI space.
Called Stable Audio Open, the generative model takes a text description and outputs a recording up to 47 seconds in length.
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s inaugural AI newsletter. It’s truly a thrill to type those words — this one’s been long in the making, and we’re excited to finally…
The new tool, which is set to arrive in Wix’s app builder tool this week, guides users through a chatbot-like interface to understand the goals, intent and aesthetic of their…