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Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts, but are also deathly afraid that AI will send a message that will undermine their brand. Adobe today announced GenStudio, a new application that helps brands create content and measure its performance, with a focus on generative AI and the promise of brand safety, at its annual Summit conference in Las Vegas. did. Currently, the tool is primarily focused on helping social, paid media, and lifecycle marketers who want to create social media posts, email campaigns, display ads, and will soon support the creation of entire websites. It is…
What do you call an AI company that is undergoing major public upheaval regarding its business health, market position, and leadership structure? Well, you might call it Stability AI. No, it's not some elaborate wordplay. We are literal. Stability AI's latest management shakeup is no joke, with CEO Emad Mostaq stepping down Work on less centralized AI products — meaning it's owned and built by a single company, like Stability AI. The startup's fundraising process is well known to technology insiders, but its most famous product, Stable Diffusion, is even more widely known. what happened? What's next? Today's TechCrunch Minute…
We know that web browsers are one of the best ways for users to access today's AI tool set, and we're working to make them the container of choice for doing so. SigmaOS, a Y Combinator-backed company, is currently releasing new features such as link preview summaries, pinch-to-summary, and “explore” browsing features to help customers who want to pay for their AI tools. We rely on the user's desires. . Some of these features sound and work similarly to recent releases of rival browser Arc. However, SigmaOS claims that its features return higher quality results, a metric that is difficult…
Not many startups can claim Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta as paying customers, but Confetti can. And the list extends beyond his five companies with a total market value of $10 trillion. The New York-based company says it works with Zoom, Netflix, Stripe, TikTok, Shopify, Adobe, LinkedIn, HubSpot, and his 30% of Fortune companies. 500. The total number of companies is approximately 8,000. Not bad for an events and team-building startup, as the pandemic forced much of its target market behind closed doors and forced Confetti to reinvent its business model in a matter of weeks. Most companies would…
After Dan Laufer sold his apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, he vowed never to found a startup again, but he couldn't ignore the potential to solve the problems he saw as Nextdoor's head of product and marketing. “Nextdoor's biggest users are people looking for providers, especially HVAC,” Laufer told TechCrunch. “There was a gap on the consumer side and the satisfaction level of the experience wasn't modern. Another big trend I've seen is the silver tsunami. These baby boomers are owning these. But they don't necessarily have an exit plan.” The result was PipeDreams. The startup will acquire his…
To extract more capacity from electric vehicle batteries, automakers are increasingly turning to silicon. Silicon, a widely available but fragile material, is expected to increase capacity by at least 20%. Sila, Group14, Envoix, and Amprius are all working to commercialize their silicon anode technology in hopes of meeting consumer desire for even greater EV range. Ionobel, a seed-stage startup, hopes to top that list by claiming its silicon material is cheaper than existing competitors. This small startup has an approach most similar to Sila and Group14. Both established companies impregnate porous graphite structures with silicone. Sila also adds a coating…
These days, just about everyone is trying to get a piece of generated AI action. While the focus is still on model vendors like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere, or big companies like Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon, there are actually startups that are trying to tackle the generative AI problem in a variety of ways. There are many. of the method. Fireworks.ai is one such startup. Although it doesn't have as much of a brand name as some other players, the company claims it boasts the largest open source model API with over 12,000 users. This kind of open source…
Sometimes the path to entrepreneurship is clear, even if the founders don't necessarily realize it. That's certainly the case for Jimmy Rojas, who took the first steps toward founding the startup Evoloh three years ago while working on hydrogen and energy systems as a graduate student at Stanford University. That continued as he was analyzing potential deals with his Baruch Future Ventures. “I always looked at hydrogen trading,” Rojas told TechCrunch. “I remember them joking that I was a terrible investor because I passed on every deal because I found problems with every company. After all, we started on our…
One of the most difficult things to do during pregnancy is learning what to eat to make your digestion comfortable and get the most nutrition. Once the baby is born, the nutritional guessing game ensues about the best foods for postpartum and breastfeeding. As part of our holistic approach to infertility treatment, Chiyo wants to be that support system by providing nutrition advice and meals in the form of a meal delivery service to women from fertility to postpartum. Chiyo provides users with digital guides and health coaching, and is also working on building what it believes is the “first-of-its-kind”…
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