Using task-specific models from AI21 Labs on AWS
In this blog post, we will show you how to leverage AI21 Labs’ Task-Specific Models (TSMs) on AWS to enhance your business operations. You w...
The VC buying up prized real estate in SF says not to ‘listen to agitators’
VC Neil Mehta, the Greenoaks Capital co-founder tied to a growing number of building purchases across several blocks of San Francisco’s once...
Snapchat’s new Footsteps feature tracks your location history
Snapchat is quietly rolling out a new “Footsteps” feature to all iOS users this week, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The new...
Raspberry Pi launches camera module for vision-based AI applications
Raspberry Pi, the company that sells tiny, cheap, single-board computers, is releasing an add-on that is going to open up several use cases ...
Fidelity has cut X’s value by 79% since Musk purchase
Elon Musk’s X is now valued at less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price, according to a new estimate from investor Fidelity. T...
Here is what’s illegal under California’s 18 (and counting) new AI laws
In September, California Governor Gavin Newsom considered 38 AI-related bills, including the highly contentious SB 1047, which the state’s l...
Gov. Newsom vetoes California’s controversial AI bill, SB 1047
California Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed SB 1047, a high-profile bill that would have regulated the development of AI. The bill was autho...
In war-torn Sudan, a displaced startup incubator returns to fuel innovation
Businesses need stability to thrive. Unfortunately for anyone in Sudan, stability has been hard to come by for the past year and a half as t...
Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion
Meta Connect 2024 was this week, showcasing new hardware and software to support two of the company’s big ambitions: AI and the metaverse. C...
Brian Williams might host a live election night special for Amazon
Amazon Prime Video could be getting into the live news business, if only for one night. Variety reports that the company is in talks with lo...
How Northpower used computer vision with AWS to automate safety inspection risk assessments
This post is co-written with Andreas Astrom from Northpower. Northpower provides reliable and affordable electricity and fiber internet se...
Canoo hit with two supplier lawsuits as last remaining co-founder leaves
EV startup Canoo has been hit with two new lawsuits from suppliers linked to the drivetrains that power its electric vehicles, just weeks af...
AI dominated both YC Demo Day and startup news
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Nomi’s emotionally intelligent chatbots will now remember things like the colleague you don’t get along with
As OpenAI boasts about its o1 model’s increased thoughtfulness, a small, self-funded startup Nomi AI is building the same kind of technology...
Scalable training platform with Amazon SageMaker HyperPod for innovation: a video generation case study
Video generation has become the latest frontier in AI research, following the success of text-to-image models. Luma AI’s recently launched D...
Zap Energy investors in recent $130M round included Soros Fund and Laurene Powell Jobs’ Emerson Collective
The company recently closed a $130 million round, according to an SEC filing, bringing the total to $327 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ri...
Vision use cases with Llama 3.2 11B and 90B models from Meta
Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Llama 3.2 in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart and Amazon Bedrock . The Llama 3.2 models are...