AI Startups (Page 13)

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OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo steps down

TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read

Fidji Simo, OpenAI's second-in-command and CEO of Applications, is leaving her full-time role after a difficult medical...

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OpenAI Stays Microsoft's 'Preferred Model' After Cost-Cut Worry

TechCrunch AI · Jul 10, 2026 · 1 min read

Bloomberg recently reported that Microsoft was swapping some OpenAI software for its own in-house MAI models in Word an...

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Nandan Nilekani steps back at Fundamentum as $200M fund launches

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Nandan Nilekani, the Infosys co-founder and architect of India's Aadhaar and UPI systems, is stepping down as general p...

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Ollama raises $65M to simplify open-source AI for devs

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Ollama, the wildly popular open-source tool for running AI models locally, just dropped a huge funding announcement: a...

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Character.AI launches AI-powered microdramas with interactive chats

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Character.AI is jumping on the microdrama trend but with a twist — you can actually chat with the characters. The start...

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AI IPOs Could Eclipse All VC Exits Since 2000

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

The article highlights a staggering statistic from the NCVA-PitchBook Venture Monitor report: the combined IPOs of Spac...

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Claude's New Reflect Feature Tracks Your AI Usage

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Anthropic just dropped a new feature called Reflect for Claude that's basically a personal analytics dashboard for your...

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Nvidia's stock slips as memory makers become AI's new darlings

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Nvidia's stock has dropped 15% since its May peak, even as revenue projections climb. The company is now cheaper relati...

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Meta Speeds Up Custom AI Chip Production to Cut GPU Costs

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Meta is accelerating its plan to produce its latest AI chips, aiming to start manufacturing in September to reduce reli...

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Meta's AI image tool sparks privacy backlash

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read

Meta just dropped a new AI image generator called Muse Image that lets you create or edit photos right in Instagram and...

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Google Photos Adds AI Video Remix for Instant Edits

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Google Photos just got a major AI upgrade with a new 'Video Remix' feature that lets you edit and transform videos in s...

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Embodied AI's Foundation Model Future Is Here

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

General Intuition just raised $320 million on a wild bet: that embodied AI will follow the same path as language models...

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OpenAI exec Kevin Weil joins Stoke Space's board

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Kevin Weil, a former OpenAI and Twitter exec, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a startup building fully reusable ro...

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Google SynthID debunks McConnell hospital hoax image

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

A fake image of Senator Mitch McConnell looking sick in a hospital bed went viral this week, but Google's SynthID water...

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Grok 4.5: Cheaper, Faster AI Workhorse

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

SpaceXAI just dropped Grok 4.5, its first model since going public. It's being pitched as a versatile workhorse for cod...

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Vibe-coding startup Lovable hits $13.2B valuation

TechCrunch AI · Jul 9, 2026 · 1 min read

Swedish startup Lovable is raising a massive $300 million round at a $13.2 billion valuation, doubling its worth from j...

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Bezos-Backed Startup Bets Gaming Data Unlocks AGI

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

General Intuition thinks large language models hit a wall when it comes to understanding physical movement through spac...

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AI startups report record-breaking revenue acceleration

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

A growing number of AI startups are reporting that their revenue isn't just growing — it's accelerating faster than eve...

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Meta's AI glasses get anti-creep feature after privacy backlash

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

Meta is updating its AI glasses to disable recording if the LED indicator is tampered with, acknowledging that some use...

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OpenAI's New Voice Models Handle Interruptions Like a Human

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

OpenAI just dropped two new conversational models, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, designed to sound way more natural....

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Startup Prime Intellect Hits $1B Valuation for AI Agent Tools

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

Prime Intellect, a startup building infrastructure for AI agents, just snagged a massive $130 million Series A, catapul...

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Bezos-Backed Startup Bets on Gaming Data for AGI

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

General Intuition, a New York-based startup valued at $2.3 billion, just raised $320 million from heavyweights like Bez...

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SambaNova Raises $1B at $11B Valuation to Fuel AI Chips

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read

AI chip startup SambaNova Systems just snagged $1 billion in Series F funding, valuing the company at $11 billion. The...

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French startup ZML opens AI inference to any chip

TechCrunch AI · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min read

Nvidia still dominates AI hardware, but the field is opening up — and a small Parisian startup just made a big move. ZM...