Google introducerar autonom AI agent
Google DeepMind lanserar Gemini 2.0, en ny AI-modell som är designad för den agentiska eran. Gemini 2.0 har trippel kapacitet jämfört med tidigare versioner, inklusive stöd för bilder, ljud och…
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Upvest, a stock trading API used by N26, Revolut and others, raises $105 million
Upvest might not be a familiar name if you don’t pay close attention to the fintech industry, but chances are you’ve already interacted with the company’s products. Founded by Martin…
Laam lands $5.5M to provide South Asian fashions to migrants around the world
Laam, a curated online fashion marketplace based in Pakistan, has raised $5.5 million in a seed round to take South Asian fashion to the world. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
ChatGPT and Sora are down
OpenAI says ChatGPT, Sora, and its developer-facing API are experiencing a major outage, according to the company’s status page. The company says it’s identified a pathway to recovery and is…
Google AI Releases Gemini 2.0 Flash: A New AI Model that is 2x Faster than Gemini 1.5 Pro
Google AI Research introduces Gemini 2.0 Flash, the latest iteration of its Gemini AI model. This release focuses on performance improvements, notably a significant increase in speed and expanded multimodal…
Microsoft Research Introduces AI-Powered Carbon Budgeting Method: A Real-Time Approach to Tracking Global Carbon Sinks and Emission
Since the Industrial Revolution, burning fossil fuels and changes in land use, especially deforestation, have driven the rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). While terrestrial vegetation and oceans serve as…
SolarSquare raises $40 million in India’s largest solar venture round
SolarSquare has raised $40 million in what is the largest venture round in India’s solar sector. The Mumbai-based startup bootstrapped and was profitable selling to corporate customers for five years…
Microsoft will take an $800M hit over Cruise robotaxi shutdown
GM’s decision to shut down its Cruise robotaxi program continues to ripple through the market, extending to the self-driving car company’s minority investors. Microsoft, which in 2021 made an investment…
Trump’s proposed university endowment tax could hurt funding, VC warns
University endowments could be taxed much higher under Trump. That may harm VCs, an investor warns. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem
OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of the data might’ve come from…