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Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, co-founder and CEO of the University of California, Berkeley's artificial intelligence spinout, said the platform is “basically a large-scale language model (LLM), but for robot languages,” he told TechCrunch. told. RFM-1 is the result of, among other things, a large amount of data collected from the deployment of Covariant's Brain AI platform. With the customer's consent, the startup has been building a robot equivalent to her LLM database. “The vision for RFM-1 is to power billions of robots in the future,” Chen said. “At Covariant, we…
SuperAGI wants to build a full-stack artificial general intelligence (AGI) platform based on large-scale agent models (LAM). It is seen by some as the next stage in the development of large-scale language models. The research is currently attracting attention from around 20,000 developers, including people at Microsoft, Google, Tencent, Tesla, and JPMorgan Chase, as well as OpenAI, using tools that have already been released. They're raising money from high-profile investors who aren't on the radar. Newlands VC, a private company backed by WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, is leading SuperAGI's $10 million Series A, hoping the funding will help further research…
Over the past 12 months, Reader apps have introduced AI to transform the way users consume news. The now-defunct Artifact from the Instagram co-founder introduced AI-powered summaries and headlines. Newer apps like Bulletin and the former Twitter engineer's Particle take a similar approach. However, developer Nate Parrott's app Feeeeed (with four E's), available for iPhone and iPad, focuses on algorithms that combine different sources to create his timelines. app Like other reader apps, Feeeed allows you to add RSS feeds to your timeline. But there are many other options, including a newsletter, YouTube channel, Hacker News, subreddits, Mastodon's profile, Tumblr…
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is Open source GrokHe said this week that the company's chatbot is comparable to ChatGPT, days after suing OpenAI and accusing the Microsoft-backed startup of straying from its open source roots. xAI released Grok last year with features such as access to “real-time” information. This service is available to customers who pay a $16 monthly subscription to X. Musk helped co-found OpenAI as a rival to Google. But OpenAI, which was also required to make its technology “freely available” to the public, has been closed-sourced and has shifted its focus to maximizing profits for Microsoft,…
UK-based Griffin Bank, founded by a former Silicon Valley engineer, is an API-driven banking-as-a-service platform that just received its banking license about a year after starting the application process. This gave the company the green light from UK financial services regulators the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to emerge from 'mobilization' and launch as a fully operational bank. It means that it was given. The move is in sharp contrast to Revolut, the UK's most valuable fintech company. Revolut has yet to receive a banking license, despite repeatedly announcing its intention over three years. (No…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. As a reader, if you see a name we missed and think it should be on the list, please email us. I will try to add more. Here are the key players you should know about. Gender gap in AI In…
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we will be covering the world's hottest salary sector, neobank Dave's financial results, and price increases in related stocks. Get TechCrunch's roundup of the biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Sunday at 7:30 a.m. PT. Subscribe here. big story This week alone, we highlighted three interesting deals in the global payroll space. First, Deal announced its largest acquisition to date, acquiring PaySpace, an African-based payroll and HR software and services company. The company also announced that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) exceeded $500 million. Then I…
To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Heidy Khlaaf is the Director of Engineering at the cybersecurity company Trail of Bits. She specializes in evaluating software and AI implementations within “safety-critical” systems such as nuclear power plants and self-driving cars. Ms. Klaf received her Ph.D. in computer science.…
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To give female academics and others focused on AI their well-deserved and overdue spotlight time, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews highlighting notable women who have contributed to the AI revolution. Start. As the AI boom continues, we'll be publishing several articles throughout the year highlighting key research that may go unrecognized. Click here for a detailed profile. Claire Liebowitz is director of the AI and Media Integrity Program at Partnership on AI (PAI), an industry group backed by Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft and others, and is committed to the “responsible” deployment of AI technology. It is working. She…