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India announces a new $1.15B Fund of Funds for startups with an “expanded scope” compared to previous initiatives, and extends tax benefits for startups (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-2 India Tax Startup

In a Reddit AMA, Sam Altman admitted that DeepSeek has lessened OpenAI's lead and said OpenAI has been “on the wrong side of history” concerning open sourcing (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-2 Reddit

MLCommons and Hugging Face release Unsupervised People's Speech, a dataset for AI research containing more than 1M hours of audio spanning at least 89 languages (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1 AI

California DMV: a total of 4.5M autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, down 50% YoY, with driverless testing falling 83% YoY to just 552,895 miles (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1 Autonomous Car California

OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest reasoning model that it says is largely on par with o1 and o1-mini in capability, but runs faster and costs less (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1

Microsoft creates the Advanced Planning Unit within its Microsoft AI division to help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1 Microsoft AI

Finout, which makes cloud cost management software, raised a $40M Series C, following a $26M Series B in March, bringing its total raised to $85M (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-1

The Allen Institute for AI releases Tulu 3 405B, an open source model that it claims outperforms DeepSeek V3 and OpenAI's GPT-4o on certain benchmarks (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 AI

Interim co-CEO David Zinsner says Intel has already received $2.2B in federal grants through the CHIPS Act, of the $7.86B awarded to build chips in the US (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 Intel

DataBank, which provides high-performance compute-ready data centers for enterprise clients, raised $250M from PE firm TJC and $600M in a secondary share offer (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31

AI audio startup ElevenLabs raised a $180M Series C co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth at a $3.3B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $281M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 Startup AI

Threads adds a dedicated media tab globally for photos and video, days after X and Bluesky added video tabs, and will let users tag people in photos (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31

Motif, which is building cloud-native 3D computer-aided architecture design tools with AI features, raised $46M in seed and Series A funding (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-31 AI

French startup Formance, which offers an open source, programmable financial ledger and other services, raised a $21M Series A co-led by PayPal and Portage (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-30 France Startup

Microsoft reports Q2 LinkedIn revenue up 9% YoY, and Satya Nadella says that LinkedIn passed a record $2B in Premium subscriptions revenue in the last 12 months (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-30 Microsoft LinkedIn

Mark Zuckerberg says spending heavily on AI infrastructure is a “strategic advantage” and vows Meta will invest “hundreds of billions” in AI over the long term (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-30 AI Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 320M MAUs, up from 275M in November 2024, and is adding more than 1M daily signups (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-30 Zuckerberg

DeepSeek's app tops the US Play Store; Appfigures says the DeepSeek app has 1.9M+ downloads on the App Store and 1.2M+ on the Play Store since mid-January 2025 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29

Paris-based online corporate event booking marketplace Naboo raised a €20M Series A led by Notion Capital, and says its 2024 booking volumes grew 4x YoY to €60M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 Paris

Carta data shows that 966 US-based startups shut down in 2024, compared to 769 in 2023, with enterprise SaaS startups accounting for 32% of the closures (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 SaaS Startup

Hugging Face researchers unveil Open-R1, a project to “systematically reconstruct DeepSeek-R1's data and training pipeline” for the open-source community (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29

Valencia-based Quibim, which is developing foundational AI models for medical imaging, raised a $50M Series A co-led by Asabys and Buenavista (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 AI

Nearly two months after GM said it would stop funding Cruise robotaxi development, GM says it expects to save up to $1B annually thanks to the move (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29

Fusion reactor startup Helion, which has a deal to supply Microsoft with electricity by 2028, raised a $425M Series F, valuing the company at $5.245B (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 Microsoft Startup

Hugging Face launches Inference Providers, which makes it easier for developers to run AI models on 3rd-party clouds; launch partners include SambaNova and Fal (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 AI

Paris-based Alice&Bob, a pioneer in cat qubit quantum architecture, raised a €100M Series B to build a “fault tolerant” quantum computer, after a €27M A in 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-29 Quantum Paris

Business travel startup TravelPerk raised a $200M Series E at a $2.7B valuation and buys expense management startup Yokoy, a source says for a “nine-figure” sum (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Startup

Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen2.5-VL, a new series of AI models that can control PCs and phones, as well as perform a number of text and image analysis tasks (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Alibaba AI

Google open sources PebbleOS, paving the way for more smartwatch hardware; Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky aims to develop a new smartwatch (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 Google

Meta says Meta AI will now use account info from across Meta's apps to give personalized suggestions; users can also ask Meta AI to “remember” specific things (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28 AI

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