As the generative AI craze rages on, Ramp acquires customer support startup Cohere.io
Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. Finance automation company Ramp has acquired Cohere.io, a startup that built an AI-powered customer support tool, the companies told TechCrunch exclusively. Founded in 2020, New York-based Cohere.io (not to be confused with Cohere, another AI startup that recently raised capital)
Read moreGlean operational advice from Airbnb and Instacart at TC Disrupt 2023’s Builders Stage
What does it take to turn an unknown startup into a household name? The ability to scale. It’s the Holy Grail that every early-stage startup founder chases. Scaling internal operations may lack the glamor of funding rounds and founder profiles, but it’s essential heavy lifting for startup success. Founders looking
Read moreThe hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements
With all the articles about just how amazing all the developments in AI have been, there’s plenty of hand wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. They imagine all the business execs and product researchers will bypass
Read moreDatabricks picks up MosaicML, an OpenAI competitor, for $1.3B
Investors aren’t the only ones who want to get their hands on hot tech companies in the field of AI: it’s also likely to spur a big wave of M&A, too: today, Databricks announced that it would pay $1.3 billion to acquire MosaicML, an open-source startup with neural networks expertise
Read moreSnapCalorie taps AI to estimate the caloric content of food from photos
While working at Google, Wade Norris wanted to create a project that could positively impact people’s lives. He co-founded Google Lens, Google’s computer vision-powered app that brings up information related to the objects it identifies. But it didn’t quite scratch the itch. So several years ago, Norris teamed up with
Read moreLeadership Lessons: An Amazing One Year After Publishing Digital Trailblazer
As I board the plane from San Francisco to Newark, I make a stark realization. Wow, it’s been a year since I received my author’s copies of Digital Trailblazer and eighteen months since I submitted the manuscript to Wiley. Writing, publishing, and marketing a book isn’t a journey – it’s
Read moreIBM acquires Apptio from Vista for $4.6B in cash to double down on hybrid cloud services
As cloud architecture continues to more ubiquitous among organizations, increasingly what is more apparent is that many organizations are taking a hybrid approach, blending SaaS in private and public clouds with some products that remain on premises. Today, IBM made a big acquisition doubling down on the hybrid concept: it
Read moreDrag equation exponent variation
The motion of a falling body of mass m is given by where the term −kvr accounts for drag due to air resistance. One can derive r = 2 under simple physical assumptions, but if I remember correctly other values of r may be more realistic in certain circumstances. I
Read moreAdobe indemnity clause designed to ease enterprise fears about AI-generated art
When it comes to artworks created by generative AI, enterprise users have specific legal concerns around permissions – and Adobe has recognized those worries. That’s why the company has written an indemnity clause that states that Adobe will pay any copyright claims related to works generated in Adobe Firefly, the
Read moreAston Martin taps Lucid to help develop electric vehicles
Lucid Group, the U.S. automaker that produces the luxury all-electric Air sedan, will supply Aston Martin with powertrain components for future electric vehicle models, the companies said Monday. The iconic British luxury automaker aims to launch an EV in 2025. The agreement marks a first for Lucid — a chance
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