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Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $450
Published: January 11, 2025 21:30
So-called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab, released Sky-T1-32B-Preview, a reasoning model that’s competitive with an earlier version…
Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/nvidias-ai-empire-a-look-at-its-top-startup-investments/
Published: January 11, 2025 15:00
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Microsoft accuses group of developing tool to abuse its AI service in new lawsuit
Published: January 10, 2025 23:38
Microsoft has taken legal action against a group the company claims intentionally developed and used tools to bypass the safety guardrails of its cloud AI products. According to a complaint filed by the company in December in the U.S. District Court for…
New OpenAI job listings reveal its robotics plans
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/new-openai-job-listings-reveal-its-robotics-plans/
Published: January 10, 2025 21:24
OpenAI disbanded its robotics department. Then, it brought it back. Now, through a social media post from its hardware director and newly published job descriptions, OpenAI is revealing more about its plans for the revived team. In a post on X on Friday,…
How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’
Published: January 10, 2025 20:51
OpenAI was sending “tens of thousands” of server requests trying to download Triplegangers' entire site which hosts hundreds of thousands of photos. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
VCs say AI companies need proprietary data to stand out from the pack
Published: January 10, 2025 20:38
AI companies across the globe raised more than $100 billion in venture capital dollars in 2024, according to Crunchbase data, an increase of more than 80% compared to 2023. It encompasses nearly a third of the total VC dollars invested in 2024. That’s a…
Hugging Face settles suit with AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused it of patent infringement
Published: January 10, 2025 19:28
Hugging Face, the AI developer platform, has settled a lawsuit against Korean AI startup FriendliAI, which had accused Hugging Face of infringing on one of its patents. Per a filing on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of…
$5B livestream shopping apps, Nvidia reveals, and the weirdest tech at CES
Published: January 10, 2025 16:43
“We put AI in this thing. Does it work? We’ll see.” That seemed to be the theme for some companies attending CES 2025, but looking beyond the experimental hype, there were also some significant (we think) developments and cool new products. Today on…
Gumloop, founded in a bedroom in Vancouver, lets users automate tasks with drag-and-drop modules
Published: January 10, 2025 13:00
Developers Max Brodeur-Urbas and Rahul Behal think that AI has the potential to automate lots of business-relevant tasks, but that many of the AI-powered automation tools on the market today are unreliable and costly. Part of the problem is that users…
Hippocratic AI raises $141M for creating patient-facing AI agents
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/hippocratic-ai-raises-141m-for-creating-patient-facing-ai-agents/
Published: January 10, 2025 00:49
Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine…
Nvidia’s AI avatar sat on my computer screen and weirded me out
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/nvidias-ai-avatar-sat-on-my-computer-screen-and-weirded-me-out/
Published: January 10, 2025 00:31
Nvidia unveiled a prototype AI avatar at CES 2025 that lives on your PC’s desktop. The AI assistant, R2X, looks like a video game character, and it can help you navigate apps on your computer. The R2X avatar is rendered and animated using Nvidia’s AI…
ChatGPT’s newest feature lets user assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’
Published: January 9, 2025 21:52
Update: Some users report that the new options have disappeared. It’s possible they went live prematurely. OpenAI is introducing a new way for users to customize their interactions with ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot. Some users on X on Thursday…
Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’
Published: January 9, 2025 20:16
As it looks to accelerate the pace of its AI development, Google is further streamlining the teams building its AI services, platforms, and tools. On Thursday, Logan Kilpatrick, who leads product for Google’s AI Studio developer platform, said in a post on…
Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims
Published: January 9, 2025 18:10
Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company’s Llama AI models to use a data set of pirated ebooks and articles for training. The case, Kadrey v.…
CES 2025: The weirdest tech products and claims from this year’s event
Published: January 9, 2025 17:30
CES 2025 is in full swing. While the conference features reveals from tech powerhouses like Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota, there are also some very strange product concepts and announcements circulating on the show floor. We’ve compiled the weirdest,…
Google’s Daily Listen AI feature generates a podcast based on your Discover feed
Published: January 9, 2025 16:03
Google is testing a new “Daily Listen” feature that automatically generates a podcast based on your Discover feed. The company confirmed to TechCrunch that Daily Listen is a personalized AI-powered audio experience that is designed to help you stay up to…
Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent
Published: January 9, 2025 13:27
French startup Rounded believes AI voice agents are going to become the default way customers interact with companies, so instead of building AI voice agents that are ready to use, the company is building an orchestration platform that lets companies build…
xAI is testing a standalone iOS app for its Grok chatbot
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/xai-is-testing-a-standalone-ios-app-for-its-grok-chatbot/
Published: January 9, 2025 07:25
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is testing out a standalone iOS app for its chatbot, Grok, which was available only to X users until now. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Elon Musk agrees that we’ve exhausted AI training data
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/elon-musk-agrees-that-weve-exhausted-ai-training-data/
Published: January 9, 2025 04:01
Elon Musk concurs with other AI experts that there’s little real-world data left to train AI models on. “We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a live-streamed conversation with Stagwell…
CES 2025 was full of IRL AI slop
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/ces-2025-was-full-of-irl-ai-slop/
Published: January 9, 2025 00:04
It’s 2025, and companies still don’t know what AI is good for. That’s the impression I got from this year’s CES, which featured AI-powered kitchen appliances, baby cribs, and other products that really weren’t calling for AI. See: Spicerr, an “intelligent”…
CES 2025: The weirdest tech products and claims from this year’s event
Published: January 8, 2025 23:36
CES 2025 is in full swing. While the conference features reveals from tech powerhouses like Nvidia, Samsung, and Toyota, there are also some very strange product concepts and announcements circulating on the show floor. We’ve compiled the weirdest,…
Grok may soon get an ‘Unhinged Mode’
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/grok-may-soon-get-an-unhinged-mode/
Published: January 8, 2025 21:33
Last April, Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, teased a mysterious “Unhinged Mode” for X’s AI-powered chatbot, Grok. Nearly a year later, xAI, the Musk-owned company behind Grok, has updated an FAQ page on its website that sheds light on the new mode.…
Halliday’s $489 smart glasses beam a tiny screen to your eye
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/hallidays-489-smart-glasses-beam-a-tiny-screen-to-your-eye/
Published: January 8, 2025 21:09
Walk up to someone wearing a pair of Halliday’s smart glasses, and you might not notice they’re looking at smartphone notifications, live language translations, or advice from an AI assistant. The only giveaway is the tiny green dot of light on their…
AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to build benchmarks for AGI
Published: January 8, 2025 20:16
Former Google engineer and influential AI researcher François Chollet is co-founding a nonprofit to help develop benchmarks that’ll probe AI for “human-level” intelligence. The nonprofit, the ARC Prize Foundation, will be led by Greg Kamradt, an…
This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be evenly distributed?
Published: January 8, 2025 18:05
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. The AI news cycle didn’t slow down much this holiday season. Between OpenAI’s 12 days of “shipmas” and DeepSeek’s major model release…
Omi, a competitor to Friend, wants to boost your productivity using AI and a ‘brain interface’
Published: January 8, 2025 16:05
San Francisco startup Based Hardware announced during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week the launch of a new AI wearable, Omi, to boost productivity. The device can be worn as a necklace where Omi’s AI assistant can be activated by saying…
Grove cuts clinical trial enrollment time with AI
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/grove-cuts-clinical-trial-enrollment-time-with-ai/
Published: January 8, 2025 16:00
Tran Le was an engineering student at Stanford University when she tried to enroll in a clinical trial for her chronic condition. Although she identified several promising trials, she found the sign-up process daunting — she had to have extensive email…
Microsoft rolls back its Bing Image Creator model after users complain of degraded quality
Published: January 8, 2025 15:31
Ahead of the holidays, Microsoft said it was upgrading the AI model behind Bing Image Creator, the AI-powered image editing tool built into the company’s Bing search engine. Microsoft promised that the new model — the latest version of OpenAI’s DALL-E 3…
Microsoft backs its $3B AI push in India with public and private sector deals
Published: January 8, 2025 08:17
Microsoft announced a sweeping series of artificial intelligence partnerships across India’s core sectors on Wednesday, a day after pledging to invest $3 billion in the country over the next two years as it intensifies competition with rivals Google and…
Sam Altman’s family responds to lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted his sister
Published: January 8, 2025 01:12
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to sexual assault accusations from his estranged younger sister on Tuesday, calling the claims “entirely untrue.” According to the Saint Louis Post Dispatch, in a new lawsuit filed Monday, Annie Altman alleges her older…
Delta Air Lines announces an AI-powered assistant in its mobile app and free onboard YouTube Premium and Music at CES 2025
Published: January 8, 2025 01:10
Over the last few years, Delta Air Lines’ presence has become a staple of CES, with the airline regularly hosting splashy keynotes. This year, the company has rented out the Sphere to announce its latest slate of updates. These include (can you guess it?)…
Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/nvidia-ceo-says-his-ai-chips-are-improving-faster-than-moores-law/
Published: January 7, 2025 23:45
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the performance of his company’s AI chips is advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law, the rubric that drove computing progress for decades. “Our systems are progressing way faster than Moore’s Law,” said Huang…
AWS says it’ll invest ‘at least’ $11B to expand data center infrastructure in Georgia
Published: January 7, 2025 21:40
On Tuesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing division, said that it plans to invest “at least” $11 billion in Georgia to expand its infrastructure to support various cloud computing and AI technologies. AWS estimates that its investment…
Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $2B at $60B valuation, led by Lightspeed
Published: January 7, 2025 19:57
OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. The round, which The Journal reports would value Anthropic at $60 billion, would bring…
Panasonic unveils an AI-powered wellness coach, powered by Anthropic’s Claude, at CES 2025
Published: January 7, 2025 18:46
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Panasonic unveiled its upcoming digital assistant, Umi, which offers families a personalized, AI-powered wellness coach. Created in partnership with Anthropic, Umi uses the Claude AI model to help families “care, coordinate, and…
At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster
Published: January 7, 2025 18:08
Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to…
Trump announces $20B plan to build new data centers in the US
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/trump-announces-20b-plan-to-build-new-data-centers-in-the-us/
Published: January 7, 2025 16:59
The data centers will primarily support AI and cloud technologies, the president-elect said. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
UK confirms plans to criminalize the creation of sexually explicit deepfake content
Published: January 7, 2025 15:01
The U.K. is forging ahead with plans to make the act of creating sexually explicit “deepfake” images a specific criminal offence. A deepfake refers to manipulated media, often video or audio, created using AI to make someone appear to say or do something…
German Bionic’s new exoskeleton supports 80-pound lifts
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/german-bionics-new-exoskeleton-supports-80-pound-lifts/
Published: January 7, 2025 14:00
At CES 2025, German Bionic announced the Apogee Ultra, a new robotic exoskeleton it claims is the “world’s most powerful.” What did the system do to earn such a lofty title? It offers up to 80 pounds of dynamic lift assistance. That mean a payload of 70…
Fermata uses computer vision to detect diseases and pests in plants
Published: January 7, 2025 14:00
When Valeria Kogan started her Ph.D. program in bioinformatics, the scientific field that uses computation and software to analyze biological data, in 2017, she imagined her career would always be within the fields of mathematics, medicine, or biology. But…
Microsoft to pump $3 billion into cloud and AI push in India
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/microsoft-to-pump-3-billion-into-cloud-and-ai-push-in-india/
Published: January 7, 2025 08:27
Microsoft plans to invest $3 billion to expand capacity for its artificial intelligence and cloud Azure services in India and also upskill an additional 10 million people in the country, the software giant’s chief executive said Tuesday. The software…
Apple to label notification summaries to indicate use of AI
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/apple-to-label-notification-summaries-to-indicate-use-of-ai/
Published: January 7, 2025 07:26
Apple said on Monday it would release an update to better indicate that its notification summaries are generated by artificial intelligence. “A software update in the coming weeks will further clarify when the text being displayed is summarization provided…
Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/nvidias-project-digits-is-a-personal-ai-computer/
Published: January 7, 2025 04:05
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. “[Project Digits] runs the entire Nvidia AI stack — all of Nvidia…
Nvidia is helping humanoid robots learn through Apple Vision Pro instruction
Published: January 7, 2025 04:03
Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were…
Nvidia releases its own brand of world models
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/nvidia-releases-its-own-brand-of-world-models/
Published: January 7, 2025 03:38
Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced that it is making openly available a family of world models that can…
AMD unveils new chips for laptops, desktops, and gaming handhelds at CES 2025
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/amd-unveils-new-chips-for-laptops-desktops-and-gaming-handhelds/
Published: January 6, 2025 19:45
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, AMD unveiled a slew of new chips destined for devices ranging from desktops to gaming handhelds. AMD is riding high coming into this year’s CES. The company commanded a 28.7% share of the desktop CPU segment in Q3 2024, up 9.6…
Google unveils an AI-powered TV that summarizes the news for you at CES 2025
Published: January 6, 2025 19:39
Long gone are the days of simply watching the news. Google unveiled the latest version of its TV operating system at CES 2025 on Monday. It uses the company’s Gemini AI assistant to summarize the biggest news of the day for you. By asking Gemini to play…
Google is forming a new team to build AI that can simulate the physical world
Published: January 6, 2025 18:56
Google is forming a new team to work on AI models that can simulate the physical world. Tim Brooks — one of the co-leads on OpenAI’s video generator, Sora, who left for Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, in October — will lead the new team, he…
Online spending grew 3% to a record $1.2T over holiday period, says Salesforce
Published: January 6, 2025 17:15
Online spending rose 3% to a record $1.2 trillion globally over the holiday period, with U.S.-sales, specifically, growing 4% to $282 billion. That’s according to a new report from Salesforce, which aggregated data from across its various cloud services,…
UK uses AI to tackle ‘bid-rigging’ collusion in public procurement contracts
Published: January 6, 2025 16:40
The U.K’s competition authority already has a lot on its plate in terms of tackling Big Tech’s growing reach across the technological spectrum, but closer to home it’s dealing with a different kind of anti-competitive threat — one it reckons AI is…
Qualcomm brings its Snapdragon X chips to mid-range Windows laptops and desktops
Published: January 6, 2025 16:00
Qualcomm is making a move for the mid-range PC market with a new system-on-chip. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon X, the latest chip in its Snapdragon X Series of PC processors. The company claims that the chip,…
Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/nvidias-ces-2025-keynote-how-to-watch/
Published: January 6, 2025 15:30
Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sporting a $3.4+ trillion market cap, due largely to its foundational position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like…
How to watch CES 2025’s press conferences
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/how-to-watch-ces-2025s-press-conferences/
Published: January 6, 2025 15:00
CES 2025 kicks off January 7, but many of the biggest events and reveals actually begin today through a series of live streams and press conferences. The annual Las Vegas event sets the tone for the year’s consumer electronics and automotive industries. As…
Intel shows off its latest chip lineup at CES 2025
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/intel-shows-off-its-latest-chip-lineup-at-ces-2025/
Published: January 6, 2025 14:00
Fresh off of its worst year since going public in 1971, Intel is announcing new chips at CES 2025 that it hopes will turn its fortunes around. The product announcement is Intel’s largest since the company’s board of directors forced out CEO Pat Gelsinger.…
Avataar releases new tool to create AI-generated videos for products
Published: January 6, 2025 12:38
Generative AI models have reached a baseline capability of producing at least a passable video from a single image or short sentence. Companies building products around these models are claiming that anyone can make a snazzy promo video if they have some…
OpenAI is losing money on its pricey ChatGPT Pro plan, CEO Sam Altman says
Published: January 6, 2025 04:39
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is currently losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because people are using it more than expected “I personally chose the price,” Altman wrote in a series of posts on X, “and thought we would make…
Samsung’s new TVs can find recipes for dishes in shows
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/samsungs-new-tvs-can-find-recipes-for-dishes-in-shows/
Published: January 6, 2025 03:00
Have you ever watched a food scene on TV and thought, wow, I wish I could cook that at home? Maybe it was the il timpano in “Big Night,” or the beef bourguignon in “Julie & Julia.” Whatever your show-inspired craving, you’re in luck — if you buy a 2025…
Samsung brings live translate to its TVs at CES 2025
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/samsung-brings-live-translate-to-its-tvs-at-ces-2025/
Published: January 6, 2025 03:00
At CES 2025, Samsung announced that it’s bringing a popular feature from the company’s phones and tablets to its TVs. Live Translate does what it says on the box, offering users real-time translation for live broadcasts. The feature will work in seven…
OpenAI is beginning to turn its attention to ‘superintelligence’
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/openai-is-beginning-to-turn-its-attention-to-superintelligence/
Published: January 6, 2025 02:21
In a post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he believes OpenAI “know[s] how to build [artificial general intelligence]” as it has traditionally understood it — and is beginning to turn its aim to “superintelligence.” “We love our…
Timekettle’s new earbuds offer real-time translation on calls
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/timekettles-new-earbuds-offer-real-time-translation-on-calls/
Published: January 6, 2025 01:00
Timekettle unveiled its latest earbuds, the W4 Pro, this week at CES 2025 in Las Vegas. The product aims to up the ante on the startup’s focus by bringing real-time two-way translation to phone and video calls. The earbuds will automatically begin…
Sam Altman has choice words for the OpenAI board members who fired him
Published: January 6, 2025 00:06
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has strong words for the former board members who abruptly fired him late last November. “[A]ll those people that I feel, like, really f—ed me and f—ed the company were gone, and now I had to clean up their mess,” he told Bloomberg in…
Samsung’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/samsungs-ces-2025-press-conference-how-to-watch/
Published: January 5, 2025 13:00
Samsung’s CES presser is always an odd duck. The Korean electronics giant generally keeps its powder dry when it comes to consumer electronics. After all, it’s expected to announce its latest flagship handset — the Galaxy S25 — toward the end of January.…
AMD’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/amds-ces-2025-press-conference-how-to-watch/
Published: January 5, 2025 10:00
AMD has its work cut out for it at CES 2025. Competitor Nvidia has been sucking the oxygen out of every room it graces, as the chipmaker remains at the forefront of the AI boom. So, how will AMD compete with Nvidia’s reported RTX 5000 announcement? The…