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OpenAI-backed biotech firm Chai Discovery raises $130M Series B at $1.3B valuation | TechCrunch

Chai Discovery, a biotech startup with backing from OpenAI, announced a $130 million Series B round at a $1.3 billion valuation on Monday. The round was led by General Catalyst and Oak HC/FT, the comp

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Disney's OpenAI deal is exclusive for just one year -- then it's open season | TechCrunch

Disney’s three-year licensing partnership with OpenAI includes just one of exclusivity, Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC. The company signed the partnership with OpenAI last week that will bring its icon

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power | TechCrunch

Even three years after the generative AI boom started, most AI startups are still making money by selling to businesses, not individual consumers. Although consumers quickly adopted general-purpose LL

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Exclusive: Everbloom built an AI to turn chicken feathers into cashmere | TechCrunch

Cashmere sweaters are everywhere these days, often at unbelievably low prices. The appeal is obvious: If you’ve ever worn cashmere, you know it’s soft, light, and warm — an impressive fiber that’s har

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, inclu

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Databricks raises $4B at $134B valuation as its AI business heats up | TechCrunch

The IPO window may have cracked open, but it seems some former startups have no intention of going public. Makes sense, in a way: IPOs were traditionally a way to raise money, and if you can manage to

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Google tests an email-based productivity assistant | TechCrunch

Productivity is one space where companies keep wanting to experiment with AI assistants in the hope that they will save time for users, and as a result, they will want to use those assistants more. Go

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Uber Eats alum lands $14M seed from a16z to fix WhatsApp chaos for LatAm's doctors | TechCrunch

Caroline Merin, who spent nearly a decade developing on-demand services as the first Latin American general manager for Uber Eats and later the COO of Rappi, recognized how badly healthcare tech lagge

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Meta's AI glasses can now help you hear conversations better | TechCrunch

Meta announced on Tuesday an update to its AI glasses that will allow you to better hear people talking when you’re in a noisy environment. The feature will initially become available on Ray-Ban Meta

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI continues on its 'code red' warpath with new image generation model | TechCrunch

OpenAI is rolling out a new version of ChatGPT Images that promises better instruction-following, more precise editing, and up to 4x faster image generation speeds. The new model, dubbed GPT Image 1.5

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
DoorDash rolls out Zesty, an AI social app for discovering new restaurants | TechCrunch

DoorDash is launching a new AI-powered social app that’s designed to help users quickly find local restaurants. The app, called Zesty, is initially available in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Weeks after raising $100M, investors pump another $180M into hot Indian startup MoEngage | TechCrunch

MoEngage, a customer engagement platform used by consumer brands across 75 countries, has announced a Series F follow-on transaction just over a month after securing $100 million, with a majority of t

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Amazon reportedly in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI as circular deals stay popular | TechCrunch

Amazon is in early discussions to invest as much as $10 billion in OpenAI in a deal that would see the AI lab using the e-commerce giant’s AI chips, CNBC reported. If it materializes, the deal would v

发布时间:2025-12-16来源:TechCrunch
Skana Robotics helps fleets of underwater robots communicate with each other | TechCrunch

Underwater autonomous vessels and robots could play a substantial role in defense operations, but submersibles have historically had trouble communicating across large distances unless they rose to th

发布时间:2025-12-16来源:TechCrunch
Google's vibe-coding tool Opal comes to Gemini | TechCrunch

Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal, is making its way to Gemini. The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool, which lets you build AI-powered mini apps, inside the Gemini web app, allowing u

发布时间:2025-12-16来源:TechCrunch