Seed Round

The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI’s biggest use case. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

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Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company’s most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI’s…

As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch. Source: techcrunch.com Read Full Story

Financial services company Block Inc. today launched Buzz, a free open-source workspace built for teams of humans and AI agents. The agents are full members with their own accounts, not chatbots answering prompts. Buzz combines team chat with code hosting and automated workflows, and Block is going after companies that now run their work across…

For the third quarter in the past year, Mexico-based companies raised more venture capital in Q2 than their Brazilian counterparts, Crunchbase data on startup funding in Latin America shows, as Silicon Valley investors including Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led some of the largest deals in the region. Mexico’s startups led the LatAm pack…

The enterprise technology ecosystem is caught in a costly cycle. Over the past two years, millions of dollars have been funneled into generative AI pilots, yet many of these initiatives stall out before ever reaching a live production environment. When a project fails, the immediate instinct of technical leadership is often to blame the model:…

The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the Australian tech community. One startup walks away with automatic entry into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco — no application, no further competition, a guaranteed spot on the world’s most…

Databricks Inc. is in the process of finalizing a funding round that will value it at $118 billion. The company announced the deal on Thursday without disclosing the amount that it’s raising. According to the Wall Street Journal, the round will add $3 billion to Databricks’ balance sheet. Coatue is leading the investment with contributions…

By ‍Ellie McDonald Everywhere you look, venture headlines imply that seed rounds have meaningfully changed shape. Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for a company that didn’t exist a week earlier. Project Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion out the gate. Unconventional AI hit $475 million two months after founding. It’s easy to read those headlines and…