ElevenLabs builds the voice layer of AI, the models that turn text into speech that sounds human. Most people encounter it when they’re talking with…
Author: Connie Loizos
A small but growing number of founders are betting on bringing people together offline |
Brynn Putnam and Tristan Walker have already done something that most founders only dream about: created companies so compelling that bigger outfits bought them. Putnam,…
Thrive Capital led VCs into pro sports ownership; Collaborative Fund just upped that play |
Collaborative Fund, the 15-year-old, New York-based generalist venture firm that has roughly $1 billion under management and which made early bets on Lyft, Reddit, Sweetgreen,…
Musk's faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem |
Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself. On Saturday, Musk confirmed…
'We're not doing 30 bets a year': Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4B at a16z |
It used to be that Vijay Pande was better known in academic circles than investor circles. That changed pretty abruptly a dozen years ago, when…
Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off |
When George Arison took over Grindr in 2022, he inherited a company that had been bounced from Chinese ownership to a forced divestiture to a…
Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition |
Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, The Information reported Wednesday night, citing a source familiar with the matter. Business Insider, which…
Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive |
Michael Polansky is remarkably unassuming for someone operating in a corner of the world known for outsize egos. Seated at a leafy patio outside a…
Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once |
Ethan Thornton dropped out of MIT at 19 to build weapons. The first one, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped with parts from Home Depot and…