Kyle Wiggers
Senior Reporter, Enterprise
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Microsoft’s new toolkit makes running AI locally on Windows easier
Microsoft’s pushing generative AI experiences from the cloud to… Windows devices. Or at least, that’s what it’s signaling it hopes to achieve with the release of the new Window
Microsoft looks to free itself from GPU shackles by designing custom AI chips
Most companies developing AI models, particularly generative AI models like ChatGPT, GPT-4 Turbo and Stable Diffusion, rely heavily on GPUs. GPUs’ ability to perform many computations in paralle
Vulcan Cyber, which scans software for security vulnerabilities, lands $55M cash infusion
Vulcan Cyber, a company developing software to help enterprises detect vulnerabilities in their software stack, today announced that it raised $55 million in equity financing led by Maor Investments a
Airbnb acquires secretive firm launched by Siri co-founder
Airbnb has acquired a secretive new AI startup, GamePlanner.AI, the company announced this morning. CNBC reports that the purchase price was around $200 million, a figure that TechCrunch was unable to
You.com launches new APIs to connect LLMs to the web
When OpenAI connected ChatGPT to the internet, it supercharged the AI chatbot’s capabilities. Now, the search engine You.com wants to do the same for every large language model (LLM) out there.
OpenAI hosts a dev day, TechCrunch reviews the M3 iMac and MacBook Pro, and Bumble gets a new CEO
Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter covering the past week (or so) in tech industry happenings. This week marked OpenAI’s first-ever dev conference, where
This week in AI: OpenAI plays for keeps with GPTs
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable re
Ghost, now OpenAI-backed, claims LLMs will overcome self-driving setbacks — but experts are skeptical
It’s not hyperbolic to say that the self-driving car industry is facing a reckoning. Just this week, Cruise recalled its entire fleet of autonomous cars after a grisly accident involving a pedes
OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets
It’s an open secret that the data sets used to train AI models are deeply flawed. Image corpora tends to be U.S.- and Western-centric, partly because Western images dominated the internet when t
Hugging Face has a two-person team developing ChatGPT-like AI models
AI startup Hugging Face offers a wide range of data science hosting and development tools, including a GitHub-like portal for AI code repositories, models and datasets, as well as web dashboards to de
EarnBetter applies generative AI to writing resumes and cover letters
Will AI make resumes and cover letters even less useful than they were before? Quite possibly. Case in point, EarnBetter, a startup founded by former Credit Karma employees, is developing a platform t
Code-generating AI platform Tabnine nabs $25M investment
Developers are ready to embrace AI tools, spurred by the dual promises of increased productivity and faster learning. According to one recent survey, 77% of devs feel favorably about using AI in their
Summer, which helps customers buy — and rent out — vacation homes, raises $18M
Multiple studies show that younger generations aren’t buying homes as quickly as their generational predecessors. Yet a relatively new startup, Summer, thinks it can convince this cohort to snat
Microsoft partners with VCs to give startups free AI chip access
In the midst of an AI chip shortage, Microsoft wants to give a privileged few startups free access to “supercomputing” resources from its Azure cloud for developing AI models. Microsoft to
Meta, Discord and others unveil effort to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse
The Tech Coalition, the group of tech companies developing approaches and policies to combat online child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA), today announced the launch of a new program, Lantern, de
Cast AI, which helps companies optimize cloud spend, lands $35M
The mass move to digital during the pandemic and the embrace of generative AI accelerated cloud adoption, and the trend hasn’t reversed. On the contrary, Gartner estimates that, in 2023, global
Integration.app uses LLMs to connect apps and services together
Several years ago, Daniil Bratchenko, one of the first employees at DataRobot, the AI and data science platform, observed that enterprises adopting software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps experienced a pere
Enable, a platform for managing B2B rebates, is now worth $1B
There’s a new unicorn in town, and its name is Enable. A rebate management platform, Enable today announced that it raised $120 million in a Series D funding round that values the company at $1
OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 API, new text-to-speech models
OpenAI launched a slew of new APIs during its first-ever developer day. DALL-E 3, OpenAI’s text-to-image model, is now available via an API after first coming to ChatGPT and Bing Chat. Similar t
OpenAI promises to defend business customers against copyright claims
OpenAI — bowing to peer pressure — today announced it’ll step in and defend businesses using OpenAI products if they face claims around copyright infringement as it pertains to OpenA