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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, a man of immense wealth who bought up a small Airbnb in the center of Amsterdam where he lived during the COVID-19 pandemic, Are you spending your days? At first glance, it looks like you're building an AI-powered meeting summary app. Go figure. In this week's post on Vogels' personal blog, he details Distill, an open source app he built with his “OCTO'' (Office of the CTO) team to transcribe and summarize conference calls. . Distill takes audio recordings of meetings (in formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, etc.), analyzes them, and generates summaries along with a…

Paris-based Mistral AI, a start-up working on open source large-scale language models that are the building blocks for generative AI services, has tripled its December valuation to 60% to compete more aggressively with the likes of OpenAI. The company is raising funds at a valuation of $1 billion. TechCrunch learned from multiple sources. We understand from sources close to us that DST, General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners are all considering participating in this round. DST — a leading investor led by Yuri Milner and a prominent backer of tech industry giants such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Spotify, WhatsApp, Alibaba…

Developer season has officially begun, and Google I/O 2024 is just days away. The short answer to the question of what to expect is two letters. It's “AI”. Google I/O? Similar to Google A/I. Almost every Google announcement in recent years has included an element of artificial intelligence/machine learning, but this time CEO Sundar Pichai will be sick of the topic by the time he leaves the stage. Things begin May 14 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. That's the big keynote, and that's what comes to mind when you think about the event. “See how we're furthering our mission to…

Dating apps and other social friend-finding apps are in the spotlight: Dating app giant Bumble is considering more acquisitions. The company said on Wednesday's first-quarter earnings call that it plans to use M&A “opportunistically” to better prioritize inorganic growth. Unlike rival Match, which has historically dominated popular dating app brands left and right, Bumble hasn't been very aggressive in pursuing growth through M&A. Its first acquisition was French dating app Fruititz in February 2022, followed by the acquisition of couples app Official in 2023 for $10 million. Neither of them are becoming the next Tinder, to put it kindly. Bumble…

Class founder Michael Chasen was in college when he and a friend came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organization tool. His former company was acquired in 2011 for $1.64 billion. Chasen then developed Class, a Zoom add-on, to help teachers leverage Zoom more effectively in classroom environments during the pandemic, which was difficult in the early days of the pandemic. . But Chasen said people using Class continue to say their businesses need something similar, and on Thursday Class announced the release of ProFeature for Zoom, which is designed specifically for business users. did. Rather than…

Indian investment app Groww has become one of the first Indian startups to move back to India from the US, illustrating a broader trend among the local startup community. The Bangalore-based startup, which helps consumers buy stocks and mutual funds, made the transition in March, said co-founder and chief executive officer Lalit Keshre. I wrote it in the post With X. A growing number of Indian startups, particularly in the fintech space, are preparing to relocate their overseas holding companies to India in order to align with evolving local regulations and seek domestic stock listings. Many Indian startups, especially those…

Technology giant Dell on Thursday notified customers that it had experienced a data breach involving their names and addresses. In an email seen and shared by TechCrunch Several people above socializing The computer maker wrote in the media that it was investigating “an incident involving Dell's portal, which contains a database containing limited types of customer information related to purchases from Dell.” Dell wrote that the information accessed in the breach included customer names, addresses, and “Dell hardware and ordering information, including service tags, product descriptions, order dates, and related warranty information.” Masu. Dell did not say whether the incident…

Surveys have been used since time immemorial to gain insights about populations, products, and public opinion. And while methodologies may have changed over the millennia, one thing remains the same. That means we need people, lots of people. But what if you can't find enough people to build a sample group large enough to produce meaningful results? Or, even though you might be able to find enough people? First, what if budget constraints limit the amount of talent you can source and interview? This is where Fairgen wants to help. An Israeli startup today launched a platform that uses “statistical…

Call centers are increasingly automated. There's debate about whether that's a good thing, but it's happening and probably accelerating. The global market for contact center AI could grow from $2.4 billion in 2022 to nearly $3 billion in 2028, according to research firm TechSci Research. Meanwhile, a recent survey found that nearly half of contact centers plan to implement some form of AI. next year. The motive is clear. That's because call centers are trying to cut costs while expanding their operations. “Companies with high-volume call center operations that want to scale quickly without the constraints of human contact center…

TikTok will begin automatically labeling AI-generated content created on other platforms, the company announced Thursday. With this change, when creators post content created with services such as OpenAI's DALL・E 3 to TikTok, it will automatically be labeled as “AI generated” and viewers will know that it was created with AI. will be notified. The social video platform accomplishes this by implementing Content Credentials, a technology from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) co-founded by Microsoft and Adobe. Content credentials attach specific metadata to content that TikTok can use to instantly recognize and label AI-generated content. As a result,…