Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI | TechCrunch
… But there’s also a pretty big idea here, which is protectionism, and who is going to quote-unquote “win the race”? …
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The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier | TechCrunch
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier | TechCrunch
Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI | TechCrunch
… Runway was among the first to develop AI video generation, but world models are a different race with deep-pocketed and well-respected competitors. …
DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round | TechCrunch
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As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride? | TechCrunch
… Kirsten: I mean, there’s very much a race between Anthropic and OpenAI. …
Kimi: Threat or menace? | TechCrunch
… This is how you lose the AI race.” The news also gave him an excuse to take a dig at Anthropic, calling Claude an example of “woke lobotomized models” that are “the enemy American competitiveness.” And former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick echoed complaints that Chinese are “distilling off” i.e., being t… …
Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026 | TechCrunch
… By adding access to a new video-generation model like Gemini Omni, Google is intensifying competition among major AI platforms in the ongoing race to lead multimodal content generation. …
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open-source bugs | TechCrunch
… It’s hard not to read it as a competitive swipe at Anthropic, while also recognizing that it’s something the open source community desperately needs. …
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6 | TechCrunch
… Anthropic has managed to make itself the likable underdog of the AI race, focusing fixedly on enterprise customers and winning a growing share of support as a result. …
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft | TechCrunch
…The cash infusion lands as Helion is racing to complete Orion, its first power plant. The startup has set an aggressive timeline to deploy fusion power to the grid, as early as…