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- Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1Bby Kyle Wiggers on February 18, 2025 at 7:49 pm
Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to raising more than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation — a higher valuation than reported just weeks ago. Bloomberg reports that VC firm Greenoaks Capital Partners is leading the deal and pledging to invest half a billion © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startupby Kyle Wiggers on February 18, 2025 at 6:30 pm
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has announced her new startup. Unsurprisingly, it’s focused on AI. Called Thinking Machines Lab, the startup, which came out of stealth today, intends to build tooling to “make AI work for [people’s] unique needs and goals,” and to create AI systems that are “more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YCby Rebecca Bellan on February 18, 2025 at 3:00 pm
When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night together didn’t have access to on-demand rides with the same convenience, accessibility, and affordability of typical ride-hail platforms, like Uber and Lyft. “Once © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AIby Ingrid Lunden on February 18, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment — is announcing $80 million in funding for the next chapter: a platform that lets sales, marketing, and © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developersby Paul Sawers on February 18, 2025 at 1:32 pm
Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content of images, audio, and entire websites across hundreds of languages, while newer tools such as ChatGPT also serve as handy pocket translators. On the back end, DeepL and ElevenLabs have have reached lofty © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.