Tag: Startups
Laplace builds AI red teams for robots and self-driving cars
An Ann Arbor startup wants to stress-test physical AI systems before they reach the real world, using AI…
Blueprints AI says it can draft permit-ready plans in minutes
A Santa Monica startup trained on eight years of approved drawing sets is pitching AI that takes over…
Apple quietly hires the team behind an AI podcast startup
A regulatory filing reveals Apple is taking staff and an IP license from the shuttered audio startup Huxe.
Sean Parker steers Stability AI toward paid work for musicians
Napster co-founder Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI into a music-production toolmaker, two years after helping rescue the…
Sibling founders at Circuit Breaker Labs stress-test chatbots with simulated users
Circuit Breaker Labs floods AI models with simulated users to catch the psychological harms real people already hit.
Restate banks $20M as agents make durable code valuable
A Berlin startup built crash-proof workflow execution years before agents made it fashionable.
Lightspeed backs India’s AI founders with a $250M vehicle
The venture firm has locked commitments for 80 percent of a smaller successor fund focused on early-stage AI.
Voice startup ElevenLabs reaches a reported $22B valuation
The four-year-old company says it is pacing at $600M in annual recurring revenue, mostly by answering the phone.
Lovable crosses $600M run rate as vibe coding spreads
The Swedish platform says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 now build with it and users apps pull nearly…
Firecrawl banks $75M to feed agents cleaner web data
The scraping startup says ordinary browsers waste agent time on pages that load in pieces or hide content…
Enveda raises $311M to mine nature for new medicines
The biotech hunts drugs in plants and microbes rather than in a synthesis lab, and now has a…
Vals wants to rebuild how the industry scores AI models
A 25-year-old founder and $40M from Andreessen Horowitz back an effort to replace benchmarks models have learned to…