Mansa says its AI microdramas can serve as proofs of concept for what Black audiences want. Critics say the studio is selling out.
Drogue is harvesting heat from the ocean to power data centers on floating vessels. The first prototype should be bobbing around the ocean, crunching bits, in less than two years.
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LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.
Given Nvidia’s stronghold on AI and its importance in Israel, many in the country's startup ecosystem are worried about the impact of his departure.
Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.
After eight years of research, a Noosa startup is commercialising a supplement designed to affordably reduce methane emissions in the cattle industry.
After its latest device failed to perform, brain-computer interface startup Synchon halted clinical trials. The company says it will upgrade the implant’s hardware and is at work on a new device.
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UFORCE's NEMESIS drones have completed 300,000 combat flights, and its MAGURA naval vessels have contributed to the destruction of Russian warships.
Fractile has now become one of the top-funded players in the race for purpose-built AI chips.
Startup Radical Numerics has developed a model that it says can identify natural and AI-engineered pathogens without an internet connection.
Former SignalFire investor Sahir Raoof raises $27.5M for new fund targeting AI in pharma
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OpenAI has not yet said what its plans are for the future of travel. But Sonder founder Francis Davidson is a well-known figure in the travel industry.
Mercor’s valuation doubled to $20bn with a $750m round. The AI training startup now wants to sell AI evals to companies beyond the frontier labs.
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“The most important companies would emerge where software and science meet,” says redalpine, as its RAC VIII fund closes at $250M.
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The deal comes a few weeks after Oura postponed its up to $2.2 billion IPO indefinitely, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.”
Startups like MiniMax and Moonshot are setting up U.S. outposts, but massive pay gaps, weaker prestige, and national security tensions make luring talent away from OpenAI and Anthropic an uphill climb.
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Nominal, a startup that offers an AI platform for hardware engineering and claims Anduril as a major customer, has raised another big round of financing that triples its valuation.