We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic | TechCrunch
…the idea of buying GPUs from Nvidia and the like, and renting those out as opposed to using those for their own AI, training their own AI models. So this is a…
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Meta's months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it | TechCrunch
…Many call themselves “draftees.” Their assigned work? Generating puzzles and coding problems to train AI models. “It’s literally the gulag,” one employee told Wired. “Most people find the work soul-crushing…
Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI | TechCrunch
…Its implications are not. Runway co-founder and co-CEO Anastasis Germanidis said training models directly on observational data from the world is the next frontier of AI. The companies that get…
Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO | TechCrunch
…Strava had already tightened API rules in 2024, banning its use for AI training and limiting third-party apps from displaying other users’ data. Those changes drew backlash from developers who said…
xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over | TechCrunch
…The jump in revenue from 2024 to 2025 came in large part from “AI solutions and infrastructure revenue” totaling $465 million, which includes $365 million in X and Grok subscription revenue and…
Is xAI a neocloud now? | TechCrunch
…It suggests the company’s real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. It’s rare to see a major tech company treat compute resources this way…
DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round | TechCrunch
…soared from $20 billion to $45 billion, the Financial Times and Bloomberg reported. The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on…
Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance | TechCrunch
…relationship that has evolved from Meta’s multibillion-dollar investment in Reliance’s Jio Platforms to a $100 million joint venture launched last year to develop enterprise AI solutions for customers in…
Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar's video AI is built for India's scale | TechCrunch
…model on India’s AI Kosh portal — the Indian government’s centralized repository for publicly available AI models and datasets — along with its training data, meaning developers can self-host or modify…
Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI | TechCrunch
…GitHub Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful Blue Origin’s…