[[{“value”:” It’s been three years since Spotify acquired live audio startup Betty Labs, and yet the music streaming service isn’t leveraging the technology to its fullest potential — at least not in our opinion. Betty Labs-owned Locker Room launched in 2020 as a sports-focused social audio app where sports fans could engage in live conversations, create […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Alchemist’s latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha
[[{“value”:” Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making some international moves into Tokyo and Doha. Read on for our picks of the batch. Chatting with Alchemist CEO and founder Ravi Belani ahead of demo day (today at 10:30 a.m. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Kickstarter now lets you pledge after a campaign closes
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Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows
[[{“value”:” Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. ChatGPT would be released to the world at the end of the year, but even before that, they recognized a problem inside companies putting data together with […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom
[[{“value”:” Adobe says the feature is up to the task, regardless of how complex of a background the object is set against. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells
[[{“value”:” Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But like people, most decline with age. In California, for example, the amount of electricity generated by geothermal power plants declined by 15% between 2001 and 2018, partly because existing wells degraded. “The history of geothermal has been […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Sonos finally made some headphones
[[{“value”:” The market play is clear from the outset: The $449 headphones are firmly targeted at an audience that would otherwise be purchasing the Bose QC Ultra or Apple AirPods Max. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview
[[{“value”:” Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs) with their own data. Most recently, though, the company completely rearchitected its product to launch Pinecone Serverless, which frees its customers from having to think […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Porsche Ventures invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performance
[[{“value”:” All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batteries charge more slowly as the liquid electrolyte inside thickens. Drivers in Chicago found this out the hard way last January after many Teslas failed to charge during a deep freeze. One startup, South 8 […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B
[[{“value”:” Scale AI has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors including Amazon and Meta. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]