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Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

Indian AI coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in six months. The funding round was led by private equity firm Creaegis. New investors MNI Ventures-Claypond, Sentinel Global, and existing backers Khosla Ventures, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed, and Y […]

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Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse

Physical badges used to be all you needed for identity management at a company. But with humans now working alongside machines and AI agents in digital environments, even the identity tools built for the cloud era are proving inadequate. That’s the gap Israeli startup Oak is stepping out of stealth to fill, it says. Co-founded

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Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users

The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Venture, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch. This round follows a previous $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton. All told, the company has now raised $88 million. Ollama, which launched in 2023, helps devs

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Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips

The days of Nvidia’s unparalleled market dominance aren’t over, but challengers and choices are arising from all directions. ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has released inference-performance software that allows a variety of open-source large language models to run on a variety of chips — including Nvidia’s, AMD’s,

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No Longer a Dream: Silicon Valley Takes On the Flying Car

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Spend a Dollar on Upcoming iPhone 13, and How to Save More

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Watching Their Dust: Photographing Players in Pollination

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6 Bots That Deliver Science and Serendipity on Twitter

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Broke a Glass? Someday You Might 3-D-Print a New One

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