Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M...
After acquiring Ukraine startup Looksery in 2015 to supercharge animated selfie lenses in Snapchat — arguably changing the filters game for all social video and photo apps — Snap ...
Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round – TechCrunch
Modern agriculture involves fields of mind-boggling size, and spraying them efficiently is a serious operational challenge. Pyka is taking on the largely human-powered spray business with an autonomous winged craft...
Hugging Face raises $15 million to build the definitive natural language processing library –...
Hugging Face has raised a $15 million funding round led by Lux Capital. The company first built a mobile app that let you chat with an artificial BFF, a sort...
Robotics+AI 2020 while you can – TechCrunch
Early-stage startup founders heed this call. Lock down your opportunity to exhibit your early-stage startup in front of a veritable who’s who in the robotics and AI industries while you...
New Amazon capabilities put machine learning in reach of more developers – TechCrunch
Today, Amazon announced a new approach that it says will put machine learning technology in reach of more developers and line of business users. Amazon has been making a...
John Carmack steps down at Oculus – TechCrunch
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Neural Magic gets $15M seed to run machine learning models on commodity CPUs –...
Neural Magic, a startup founded by a couple of MIT professors, who figured out a way to run machine learning models on commodity CPUs, announced a $15 million seed investment...
Microsoft launches Power Virtual Agents, its no-code bot builder – TechCrunch
Microsoft today announced the public preview of its Power Virtual Agents tool, a new no-code tool for building chatbots that’s part of the company’s Power Platform, which also includes...
Meet Vise AI, the startup reimagining portfolio management – TechCrunch
The founders of Vise AI met when they were 13, a couple of teenagers more interested in applied artificial intelligence than English class. Fast-forward several years and the pair has...
Google will soon open a cloud region in Poland – TechCrunch
Google today announced its plans to open a new cloud region in Warsaw, Poland to better serve its customers in Central and Eastern Europe.
This move is part of Google’s...
