Kyle Wiggers, Author at TechCrunch

OpenAI buys Rockset to bolster its enterprise AI

Kyle Wiggers — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:55:15 +0000

The Rockset buy fits into OpenAI's broader recent strategy of investing heavily in its enterprise sales and tech orgs.

Language learning app Speak nets $20M, doubles valuation

Kyle Wiggers — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:48:19 +0000

Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation.

Anthropic claims its latest model is best-in-class

Kyle Wiggers — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000

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.

This Week in AI: Generative AI is spamming up academic journals

Kyle Wiggers, Devin Coldewey — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 17:05:00 +0000

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 front. In a post on Retraction Watch, a blog that tracks recent retractions of academic studies, assistant professors of philosophy Tomasz Żuradzk and Leszek Wroński […]

Genspark is the latest attempt at an AI-powered search engine

Kyle Wiggers — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

Genspark taps generative AI to write custom summaries in response to search queries.

Decagon claims its customer service bots are smarter than average

Kyle Wiggers — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:03:00 +0000

Decagon is a generative AI platform that automates various aspects of customer support channels.

SurrealDB is helping developers consolidate their databases

Kyle Wiggers — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:00:00 +0000

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 uses AI to spot defects in sewer pipes

Kyle Wiggers — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

SewerAI sells cloud-based, AI-powered subscription products designed to streamline field inspections and data management of sewer infrastructure.

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

Kyle Wiggers, Cody Corrall, Alyssa Stringer — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:30:00 +0000

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 with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […]

DeepMind’s new AI generates soundtracks and dialogue for videos

Kyle Wiggers — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:03:57 +0000

DeepMind says that it sees the tech, V2A (short for "video-to-audio"), as an essential piece of the AI-generated media puzzle.

Runway’s new video-generating AI, Gen-3, offers improved controls

Kyle Wiggers — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:20:15 +0000

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 AI model generates video clips from text descriptions and still images. Runway says the model delivers a “major” improvement in generation speed and fidelity over […]

How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans

Kyle Wiggers — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free.

Amazon says it’ll spend $230 million on generative AI startups

Kyle Wiggers — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:43:11 +0000

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.

This humanoid robot can drive cars — sort of

Kyle Wiggers — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:32:00 +0000

Out of an abundance of caution, the car took two minutes to turn a corner.

This Week in AI: Apple won’t say how the sausage gets made

Kyle Wiggers — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:05:00 +0000

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, its long-awaited, ecosystem-wide push into generative AI. Apple Intelligence powers a whole host of features, from an upgraded Siri to AI-generated emoji to photo-editing tools that […]

Helen Toner worries ‘not super functional’ Congress will flub AI policy

Kyle Wiggers — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:25:24 +0000

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 it concerns AI policymaking, should the status quo not change. “Congress right now — I don’t know if anyone’s noticed — is not super functional, […]

Spawning wants to build more ethical AI training datasets

Kyle Wiggers — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 19:27:40 +0000

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 intended to curate “non-infringing” media for AI model training. The Source.Plus project’s first initiative is a dataset seeded with nearly 40 million public domain images […]

The top AI features Apple announced at WWDC 2024

Kyle Wiggers — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:07:21 +0000

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 lands cash to grow its contact center automation business

Kyle Wiggers — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Cognigy is helping create AI that can handle the highly repetitive, rote processes center workers face daily.

Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including Siri

Kyle Wiggers — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 18:38:53 +0000

Soon, Siri will be able to tap ChatGPT for "expertise" where it might be helpful, Apple says.