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Trajectory raises $45M to make AI model training accessible to nontechnical experts

The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.

TechCrunch · EN

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan uses AI agents so much, he spends up to $200K a year on tokens

Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he's suffered from "cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, Tan put a price tag on his passion.

TechCrunch · EN

Startups recalibrate Chinese AI for the West

A growing number of startups are editing powerful Chinese open-weight models for Western businesses that are concerned about censorship and security.

Rest of World · EN

42AI comes out of stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can ‘predict human behavior’

Here's a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?

TechCrunch · EN

Readwise takes on Amazon’s Kindle and Goodreads with its new app for book lovers

Readwise Books combines an e-book store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon's ecosystem.

TechCrunch · EN