After first unveiling its new AI-powered laptop, dubbed Googlebook, in May, Google on Monday said the new device is now available for preorder for $899.…
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Krafton doubles down on India with another $250M bet beyond gaming |
Krafton, the South Korean gaming company behind titles including PUBG and Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), plans to invest another $250 million in India over the…
Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers |
Ultrahuman, an Indian startup best known for making smart rings, has raised $70 million in a new funding round that includes backing from Qualcomm’s venture…
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face, which makes online developer tools and maintains a massive library of open-source data sets, for nearly $13 billion.…
Magna increases bet on battery swapping in India with $35M for Yuma |
While battery swapping has struggled to take off in much of the world, Canadian auto parts giant Magna International believes the model could work at…
Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine |
The hype around humanoid robots isn’t particularly new. Thank Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his Optimus robot, as well as the myriad videos of Boston…
Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them |
As artificial intelligence makes it easier than ever to build websites and apps, Indian startup Runable is betting the next opportunity lies in what comes…
Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models |
AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that…
General Intuition’s $2.3B bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world |
As soon as I entered General Intuition’s R&D floor at its New York office, the company’s 31-year-old co-founder and CEO Pim de Witte directed my…
Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish |
Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for…