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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

DeepSeek debuts a family of multimodal, MIT-licensed open-source models including Janus-Pro-7B, which it claims beats OpenAI's DALL-E 3 in GenEval and DPG-Bench (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-28

DeepSeek's iOS app is now the top free app in Apple's App Store in the US, just ahead of ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-27 IOS Apple

Filing: Character AI claims it is protected by 1A as a lawsuit claims a teen committed suicide after becoming emotionally attached to a chatbot on Character AI (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 AI chatbot

UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25

Flip, which lets shoppers share video reviews and earn cash based on engagement, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity over 5+ years (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 Equity

Sources: ElevenLabs closed a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ Growth at a valuation of between $3B to $3.3B; it was initially looking for funding at a $4B valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25

Similarweb: RedNote's DAUs in the US fell by 54% on January 20 when the TikTok ban was put on hold, after reaching a high of 32.5M DAUs on the day of the ban (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 Ban

Meta begins a “limited, early test” of ads in Threads in the US and Japan, with the goal of making the ads “as interesting as organic content” (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-25 Japan

PE firm Everstone acquires Delhi-based Wingify, whose flagship product Visual Website Optimizer helps business improve their online conversion rates, for $200M (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

Anthropic debuts Citations, a new API feature letting developers “ground” answers in source documents, available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku (techcrunch.com)
2025-1-24

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