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Pruna AI open sources its AI model optimization framework

Pruna AI, a European startup that has been working on compression algorithms for AI models, is making its optimization framework open source on Thursday. Pruna AI has been creating a framework that applies several efficiency methods, such as caching, pruning, quantization and distillation, to a given AI model. “We also standardize saving and loading the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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2 часа назад

Amid calls for sovereign EU tech stack, Evroc raises $55M to build a hyperscale cloud in Europe

A Swedish startup aiming to build a hyperscale cloud company in Europe has raised €50.6 million ($55 million) in Series A funding. Evroc, as it’s called, says it’s laying the foundations for a “secure, sovereign and sustainable hyperscale cloud to reimagine the digital future of Europe.” The announcement comes amid growing calls to create a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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5 часов назад

ClearGrid, armed with a fresh $10M, is developing AI to improve debt collection in MENA

Debt collection in emerging markets often feels outdated, and can be costly — damaging borrower trust. As consumer lending surges and regulators push for fairer practices, legacy collection outfits are struggling to maintain pace. ClearGrid aims to help modernize debt collection — and recovery — with AI. The Dubai-based startup, which is emerging from stealth […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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8 часов назад

How a $6M bet on Wiz turned into a massive 200x return for one early backer

Wiz’s $32 billion all-cash acquisition by Google parent Alphabet promises a colossal payday for the cybersecurity startup’s early-stage investors. The deal is a big win for Sequoia, one of the best-known VC firms, which stands to make $3 billion, about 25x the money it invested in the company, Bloomberg reported. Despite substantial returns for Sequoia’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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13 часов назад

Nvidia reportedly acquires synthetic data startup Gretel

Nvidia has reportedly acquired Gretel, a San Diego-based startup that’s developed a platform to generate synthetic AI training data. Terms of the acquisition are unknown. The price tag is reportedly nine figures and exceeds Gretel’s most recent valuation of $320 million, according to Wired. Gretel and its team of roughly 80 employees will be folded […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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14 часов назад

AWS generative AI exec leaves to launch startup

Raj Aggarwal is leaving AWS after nearly three years as the company’s GM of generative AI and revenue acceleration, according to a LinkedIn post Aggarwal published Wednesday. “I’m proud of the pioneering work our team did in generative AI from its earliest days,” Aggarwal said in his post. “We built what might be the world’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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15 часов назад

A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup

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18 часов назад

Hugging Face’s new iOS app taps AI to describe what you’re looking at

AI startup Hugging Face has released a new app for iOS that only does one thing: uses offline, local AI to describe what’s in view of your iPhone’s camera. The app, called HuggingSnap, taps Hugging Face’s in-house vision model, smolvlm2, to analyze what your phone sees in real-time without sending data off to the cloud. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18 часов назад

Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage

After hitting record lows at the start of the pandemic, mortgage rates began to climb in 2022 and haven’t come down significantly since. With 30-year mortgage rates hovering at over 6.5% today (they were as low as 2.49% in 2020!), buying a home is simply not that attainable for many people. One Denver-based startup is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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18 часов назад

Hunted Labs lands $3M to find suspicious open source contributors

Former NSA deputy director George Barnes has made his first investment as a venture capitalist for his new job at the VC incubation studio Red Cell Partners. It’s a $3 million seed deal in an open source cybersecurity startup called Hunted Labs, he told TechCrunch exclusively. Barnes spent his entire 35-year career at the spy agency, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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19 часов назад

Cape opens $99/month beta of its privacy-first mobile plan, inks Proton deal, raises $30M

Mobile networks continue to be a major target for cybersecurity breaches, and Chinese hacking group Salt Typhoon‘s persistent attacks on multiple carriers are only the latest known examples. The mobile carrier startup Cape is taking a novel approach to addressing the problem: it has built a service it says can provide a more secure, private […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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20 часов назад

Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round

Booking an ad campaign with social media influencers is currently not exactly easy. For starters, influencers’ approaches to marketing can be unconventional, and there’s no standard way to engage with them. On the other side, marketing agencies that employ hosts of people to book and track brand campaigns are limited by how many influencers they […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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22 часа назад

Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management

Aletiq has raised a €6 million funding round led by Point Nine a few months ago (around $6.5 million at current exchange rates). The French startup is announcing the founding round today. Aletiq has been developing product lifecycle management (PLM) software for manufacturing industrial companies working in aerospace, automotive, electronics, luxury and more. When you […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Factorial snaps up $120M from General Catalyst to boost its HR sales and marketing

While Rippling and Deel duke it out in the field and in the courtroom alleging illegal sales and marketing tactics, here’s another way to boost business growth: pick up a massive sum of cash to expand your operations in those areas. Factorial, the Barcelona-based “unicorn” startup that provides an all-in-one HR platform in the cloud […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Here’s why Google pitched its $32B Wiz acquisition as ‘multicloud’

Tuesday’s big news that Google is acquiring security startup Wiz for a record-breaking $32 billion comes with a very big qualifier. Google says it will position Wiz as a “multicloud” offering, meaning Wiz will not be a Google-only shop. The reality is that Google had no choice but to do this, and a closer look […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Bolt’s former CEO is launching a new e-commerce startup

Maju Kuruvilla, who left the CEO role of controversial one-click checkout startup Bolt last year, is back. He’s launching his own startup, focused on a different problem for online shoppers: what he calls “check-in.” When you click on an ad for something like a t-shirt, the experience afterwards can feel a little clunky. The website […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful

Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But it […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Anthropic-backed AI-powered code review platform Graphite raises cash

AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub’s latest poll saying that they’ve adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. Sensing an opportunity, VCs are rushing to back startups developing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Anthropic is reportedly prepping a voice mode for Claude

According to a report, AI startup Anthropic is working on voice capabilities for its AI-powered chatbot, Claude. The company’s chief product officer, Mike Krieger, told the Financial Times that Anthropic plans to launch experiences that allow users to talk to Anthropic’s AI models. “We are doing some work around how Claude for desktop evolves [… […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Google is buying Wiz for $32B to beef up in cloud security, sources say

Google is making the biggest acquisition in its history. The company is acquiring Wiz, the cloud security startup, for $32 billion, our sources say. The deal has been on-again off-again for nearly part of a year and appeared to revive again this week, with Thomas Kurian — the CEO of Google Cloud — in Europe […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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