Sam Altman ousted as OpenAI’s CEO
Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and other highly capable generative AI systems. He’ll both leave the company’s board and step down as CEO. In a post on OpenAI’s
Read moreWho knows what GamePlanner does, but Airbnb just bought the company
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Read moreTC+ Roundup: Just say no to triaging
Good morning! All signs are pointing to a recovery in 2024, and that’ll be better for some than others. The past few years have seen investors propping up mediocre portfolio companies, hoping that a little boost can help them through a tough fundraising market. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available
Read moreWill 2024 be a bounce-back year for startups?
Enterprise startups were hit hard in 2023, but VCs are a little more optimistic about their portfolio companies heading into 2024. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreHow we run our in-house generative AI accelerator: Framework for ideation
The first essential step to cultivate innovation within an established company is to create a dedicated space where new ideas will be born. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreWhat can you learn from a phone number?
What can someone learn about you from your phone number? The answer depends on what other information someone has. Identifiers always depend on context. To a naked man in a tree [1] the phone number doesn’t carry any information. But to someone with a list of names and phone numbers,
Read moreRooms, an interactive 3D space designer and ‘cozy game,’ arrives on the App Store
Cozy game, interior decorating app, learn-to-code primer or something in between, the interactive, 3D spaces builder known as Rooms has made its way to the App Store. The startup, which earlier raised $10 million in seed funding led by a16z, offers a way to design 3D spaces — its “rooms”
Read moreHow to watch SpaceX launch Starship for a second time live
In less than 24 hours, SpaceX will attempt to launch Starship to space for the second time. The official launch window opens at 7:00 AM CST on Saturday and lasts for just 20 minutes — and no, that’s not a typo. SpaceX will start its live webcast tomorrow around 35
Read moreThe future of M&A and why founders are getting whiplash
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Read moreKyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source
This morning at Scaleway’s ai-PULSE conference, French billionaire and Iliad CEO Xavier Niel gave some extra details about his plans for an AI research lab based in Paris. This new lab called Kyutai will be a privately-funded nonprofit working on artificial general intelligence. It will work with PhD students, postdocs
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