by Alex Wilhelm | Mar 28, 2024 | Business Enhancements, Startups
Wonderschool, a startup that provides software and support to help individuals and local governments spin up childcare businesses, has acquired EarlyDay, which operates an early childhood educator marketplace. TechCrunch has covered Wonderschool since its infancy,...
by Kyle Wiggers | Mar 28, 2024 | Business Enhancements, Startups
Google.org, Google’s charitable wing, is launching a new program to help fund nonprofits developing tech that leverages generative AI. Called Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI, the program is to be funded by $20 million in grants and include 21 nonprofits to...
by Christine Hall | Mar 28, 2024 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital
Matter Venture Partners will invest in between 15 and 20 companies with the new fund in the area of “hard tech.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
by Kyle Wiggers | Mar 28, 2024 | Business Enhancements
Increasingly, the AI industry is moving toward generative AI models with longer contexts. But models with large context windows tend to be compute-intensive. Ori Goshen, the CEO of AI startup AI21 Labs, asserts that this doesn’t have to be the case — and...
by Ivan Mehta | Mar 28, 2024 | Business Enhancements
Google announced today that it will soon roll out on-device AI-powered features such as recording summaries and smart replies on the Pixel 8. These features will be based on Gemini Nano, a small-sized model Google released last year, primed to run on devices. The...
by Sarah Perez | Mar 28, 2024 | Business Enhancements
With TikTok potentially poised for a U.S. ban, YouTube is touting how well its own TikTok competitor, YouTube Shorts, is paying off for creators. The company on Thursday said its short-form video platform now averages over 70 billion daily views and over 25% of...