Kyle Wiggers
Senior Reporter, Enterprise
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Kolena, a startup building tools to test AI models, raises $15M
Kolena, a startup building tools to test, benchmark and validate the performance of AI models, today announced that it raised $15 million in a funding round led by Lobby Capital with participation fro
OpenAI’s GPT-4 with vision still has flaws, paper reveals
When OpenAI first unveiled GPT-4, its flagship text-generating AI model, the company touted the model’s multimodality — in other words, its ability to understand the context of images as w
Series, which aims to replace ERP systems, lands $25M
As companies grow, they create legal entities and organizational structures to support their lines of business — each with their respective governance and compliance needs. Quickly, keeping trac
Erudit raises $10M to monitor workplaces for ‘misalignment’
Employee surveillance is on the rise. According to one poll, searches for staff-monitoring software rose by 75% in March 2020 compared with the 2019 monthly average — and demand remained strong
AI chip company Kneron raises $49M to scale up its commercial efforts
Kneron, which is developing AI chips to power self-driving cars, among other autonomous machines, today announced that it raised $49 million in an extension to its Series B round from investors includ
Getty Images launches an AI-powered image generator
Getty Images, one of the largest suppliers of stock images, editorial photos, videos and music, today announced the launch of a generative AI art tool that it claims is “commercially safer”
Nx lands $16M to build ‘monorepo’ tools for software devs
Nx, a startup developing tooling to make it simpler for software dev teams to work within a single code repository, today closed a $16 million Series A round with participation from Nexus Venture Part
VC firm Fuse closes $250M fund to invest in Pacific Northwest startups
Funding for startups in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) fell precipitously early this year. From January to March, PNW financing dipped 80% to $246 million, down from $1.2 billion during the same period i
Elicit is building a tool to automate scientific literature review
For researchers, reading scientific papers can be immensely time-consuming. According to one survey, scientists spend seven hours each week searching for information. Another survey suggests that syst
Elon Musk threatens to charge for X, OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 and Cisco acquires Splunk
Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past few days in tech. The TC crew — including this reporter — is coming off the high of Disrupt, which
Meredith Whittaker reaffirms that Signal would leave UK if forced by privacy bill
Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit Signal messaging app, reaffirmed that Signal would leave the U.K. if the c
The copyright issues around generative AI aren’t going away anytime soon
Generative AI has brought a host of copyright issues to the fore. Just this week, authors including George R.R. Martin, led by the Authors Guild, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the star
Qruise wants to build AI to automate quantum device development
Can software work alongside human physicists and engineers in R&D labs to develop new quantum computers? That’s the question Qruise, a startup in TechCrunch’s Battlefield 200 competiti
Secoda secures $14M to expand its data cataloging platform
Secoda, a startup developing what it describes as an AI-powered data search and cataloging platform, today announced that it raised $14 million in a funding round led by Craft Ventures with participat
How generative AI is accelerating disinformation
Panelists at TC Disrupt 2023 spoke about the ways in which generative AI is accelerating the spread of disinformation.
Windows 11 gains support for managing passkeys
Windows 11 has gained support for passkeys, the digital credentials that can be used as an authentication method for websites and apps.
Mesh, which helps people manage their digital assets, raises $22M
Mesh (formerly Front Finance), a startup developing a service to help customers transfer and manage digital assets like crypto, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by Money Forward
Auctoria uses generative AI to create video game models
Several years ago, Aleksander Caban, the co-founder of Carbon Studio, a Polish VR game developer, observed a major problem in modern game design. He had to create rocks, hills, paths and other basic e
JusticeText taps AI to transcribe evidence for public defenders
While studying computer science at the University of Chicago, Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove were inspired to build tech that centered on the needs of communities historically marginalized by l
Clika is building a platform to make AI models run faster
Clika, a startup participating in the Battlefield 200 competition at TC Disrupt 2023, aims to build tech to "compress" existing AI models.