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Backed by David Sacks, Garry Tan and Walter Isaacson, Created by Humans helps people license their creative work to AI models
[[{“value”:” In 2024, it seems like no week goes by without a media organization, author group, or artist suing generative AI companies for using their work to train models without permission. The issue is, of course, that there’s still no clear framework on what constitutes copyright violation in the context of training GenAI. While these cases […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
How Jobright uses AI to help foreign workers navigate the US job market
[[{“value”:” Leveraging large languge models, Jobright created an AI agent that acts as a headhunter tailored to individual job seekers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
k-ID wins $45M to help game devs speedrun the child safety compliance puzzle
[[{“value”:” k-ID’s platform makes it easy for game devs to comply with child safety and data privacy regulations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
EvolutionaryScale, backed by Amazon and Nvidia, raises $142M for protein-generating AI
[[{“value”:” A relatively new startup called EvolutionaryScale has secured a massive tranche of cash to build AI models to generate novel proteins for scientific research. EvolutionaryScale today announced that it raised $142 million in a seed round led by ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Lux Capital with participation from Amazon and NVentures, Nvidia’s corporate […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
General Catalyst leads $40M round for Local Kitchens, a different kind of restaurant kitchen startup
[[{“value”:” Don’t call this company a “ghost kitchen.” Since its Series A in 2021, Local Kitchens grew 5x and achieved unit-level profitability. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Foray Bioscience is breaking down the barriers of bringing biomanufacturing to plants
[[{“value”:” Ashley Beckwith spent years of her academic and professional career focused on the intersection of biology, materials and manufacturing to build medical solutions more efficiently. When she realized the tech could be applied to plants and plant-based materials, an area that desperately needed it, she decided to switch gears. “Life on earth is only as […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Etched is building an AI chip that only runs one type of model
[[{“value”:” As generative AI touches a growing number of industries, the companies producing chips to run the models are benefitting enormously. Nvidia in particular, which commands an estimated 70% to 95% of the market for AI chips, wields massive influence. Cloud providers from Meta to Microsoft are spending billions of dollars on Nvidia GPUs, wary of […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Sift is building a better platform for analyzing hardware telemetry data
[[{“value”:” Less than a year after closing its seed round, software-for-hardware startup Sift announced a $17.5 million Series A led by Google’s venture capital arm GV to scale their platform for analyzing real-time data from hardware systems. The company is developing a platform that provides a single source of truth for telemetry data. Such data is […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Gen Z photos app Swipewipe sells to French publisher MWM in its largest acquisition to date
[[{“value”:” The acquisition allows Swipewipe’s founder to take some money off the table while also continuing to benefit financially from his work via an ongoing revenue-sharing agreement with MWM. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]