[ad_1] As Amazon’s Prime Video gears up for its second year as the exclusive rights holder to NFL’s Thursday Night Football (TNF), the streaming service hopes to give fans a more enhanced viewing experience with a slew of new AI-driven features. During a demo with Prime Video executives, TechCrunch learned about the AI elements coming … Read more
[ad_1] Google Cloud’s annual Next event is happening in San Francisco next week (and we’ll be on the ground to cover all of the announcements), but ahead of the event, Google Cloud today put a spotlight on its partner ecosystem. It’s no secret that in its early days, Google’s cloud efforts were somewhat hindered by … Read more
[ad_1] Modular, a startup creating a platform for developing and optimizing AI systems, has raised $100 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst with participation from GV (Google Ventures), SV Angel, Greylock and Factory. Bringing Modular’s total raised to $130 million, the proceeds will be put toward product expansion, hardware support and the … Read more
[ad_1] Nvidia’s blockbuster quarterly results make it plain that the race to build generative AI products is well and truly afoot. The GPU giant crushed earnings expectations in the second quarter and forecast a monster future. Investors, already content to value Nvidia north of $1 trillion, added tens of billions more to its market cap … Read more
[ad_1] OpenAI, the AI startup behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, plans to partner with third party vendors to make it easier for developers — specifically enterprises — to fine-tune its AI models using custom data. Today, OpenAI announced that it’ll team up with Scale AI, the San Francisco-based data labeling startup, to bring together … Read more
[ad_1] Shares of Better.com are getting hammered into the ground Thursday morning after the digital mortgage company completed its long-delayed SPAC merger and began to trade as a public company for the first time. When Better first announced plans to go public in 2021 at a $7.7 billion valuation, it was a different time. Mortgage … Read more
[ad_1] The hype around fusion power is real. Researchers at the National Ignition Facility achieved net-positive controlled nuclear fusion in December 2022, a milestone that’s been decades in the making. Then, earlier this month, they did it again, proving that it wasn’t just a fluke. But that’s not the only thing reshaping the industry. Once … Read more
[ad_1] Meta, intent on making a splash in a generative AI space rife with competition, is on something of an open source tear. Following the release of AI models for generating text, translating languages and creating audio, the company today open sourced Code Llama, a machine learning system that can generate and explain code in … Read more
[ad_1] When Panobi co-founder Merci Grace began running growth at Slack in 2015, she helped grow the user base from 50,000 to over 3 million in just a couple of years. Along the way, she learned some valuable lessons about tracking growth metrics, and how difficult it is to pull this data from a variety … Read more
[ad_1] Here’s how to close a funding round in 2023 Silicon Valley’s image as a shiny, money-spewing beacon on a hill of boundless opportunity has gotten a bit of a readjustment over the past year. The fundraising landscape has been utterly brutal. Yes, VCs are still sitting on a lot of dry powder, but as … Read more