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Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it's raised | TechCrunch

In a moonshot move, AI search engine Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer, Reuters reported, and Perplexity has confirmed to TechCrunch. Perp

发布时间:2025-08-11来源:TechCrunch
Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink | TechCrunch

Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, u

发布时间:2025-08-11来源:TechCrunch
AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 | TechCrunch

Demand for AI “companion” applications outside of bigger names, like ChatGPT and Grok, is growing. Of the 337 active and revenue-generating AI companion apps available worldwide, 128 were released in

发布时间:2025-08-11来源:TechCrunch
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发布时间:2026-04-14来源:品玩
ChatGPT's model picker is back, and it's complicated | TechCrunch

When OpenAI launched GPT-5 last week, the company said the model would simplify the ChatGPT experience. OpenAI hoped GPT-5 would act as a sort of “one size fits all” AI model with a router that would

发布时间:2025-08-11来源:TechCrunch
NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers | TechCrunch

When NeoLogic started building its more energy-efficient CPUs for AI servers, folks in the industry told its founders Avi Messica and Ziv Leshem that their idea wasn’t viable. “Most of the people that

发布时间:2025-08-12来源:TechCrunch
Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up | TechCrunch

Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop — a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability — in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. Th

发布时间:2025-08-12来源:TechCrunch
Pocket FM gives its writers an AI tool to transform narratives, write cliffhangers, and more | TechCrunch

India-based audio series platform maker Pocket FM aims to be the Netflix of audio. That is, the company intends to match its audio series with hundreds of episodes to its users’ tastes. For that to wo

发布时间:2025-08-12来源:TechCrunch
Waymo finally has a music experience worthy of its robotaxi | TechCrunch

I’m riding in the back of a Waymo that’s autonomously navigating the busy streets of San Francisco with relative ease thanks to 29 external cameras, six radar, and five lidar sensors all feeding into

发布时间:2025-08-12来源:TechCrunch
Co-founder of Elon Musk's xAI departs the company | TechCrunch

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup int

发布时间:2025-08-12来源:TechCrunch
Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer | TechCrunch

Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion behind CEO

发布时间:2025-08-13来源:TechCrunch
Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever | TechCrunch

One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups has released two AI models that are so tiny, they have named them after a chicken’s brain and a fly’s brain. Multiverse Computing claims these are the world’

发布时间:2025-08-13来源:TechCrunch
Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, competition heat up | TechCrunch

Google on Thursday announced a new AI-powered search tool to help travelers find flight deals — even as regulators continue to question whether the search giant’s dominance in travel discovery stifles

发布时间:2025-08-13来源:TechCrunch
Leaked Meta AI rules show chatbots were allowed to have romantic chats with kids | TechCrunch

As concerns over the emotional pull of general-purpose LLM chatbots like ChatGPT grow by the day, Meta appears to be letting its chatbot personas engage in flirtatious exchanges with children, dissemi

发布时间:2025-08-13来源:TechCrunch
Cohere hits a $6.8B valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce double down | TechCrunch

Cohere on Thursday announced that it had raised an oversubscribed $500 million round, bringing its valuation to $6.8 billion. This is up from the $5.5 billion valuation it landed a little over a year

发布时间:2025-08-13来源:TechCrunch