Tag: startup
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Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet | TechCrunch
If Your AI Can Write Emails But Can’t Move a Box, This is Why You have probably spent the last year testing AI tools for your business. They draft the marketing copy. They summarize the meeting notes. But ask them to understand why your inventory is always piled up in the wrong corner of your…
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Venice AI Becomes a Unicorn With $65M Series A — Privacy-First AI Is the Next Big Thing
TL;DR: Venice AI raised a $65M Series A at a $1B valuation led by Dragonfly, its first external capital. The privacy-first platform serves 3M+ active users, processes 1.7M API calls/day across 200+ models, and is already profitable with $70M+ annualised revenue. If you’ve been ignoring the privacy angle in AI, this is the wake-up call.…
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round | TechCrunch
Why a US$1 Billion AI Chip Bet Matters for Your Malaysian SME Imagine reading that a company you never heard of just raised US$1 billion at an US$11 billion valuation (TechCrunch). It sounds like abstract Silicon Valley noise. But when you run a small business in Malaysia, any significant change in the AI infrastructure world…
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SRKK AI Aims to Raise RM20.48 Million From IPO — What It Means for Malaysia’s AI Startup Scene
TL;DR: SRKK AI, a Malaysian AI startup, is targeting RM20.48 million from its IPO on Bursa Malaysia. It’s a signal that local AI companies are attracting serious investor attention — and that the Malaysian capital market is warming up to tech listings. You’ve been watching the AI boom from the sidelines. Every week there’s another…
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What billions of AI predictions taught Expedia before the age of AI agents | VentureBeat
Expedia Just Gave Every SME Owner a Brutally Honest Lesson About AI Agents You are probably seeing AI agents pop up everywhere. Tools that promise to handle your bookings, answer your customers, and run your marketing while you sleep. It sounds incredible. But what happens when the agent makes a mistake? Expedia, a company that…
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Sakana AI Launches Sakana Translate, a Namazu-Powered Japanese–English–Chinese Translation Tool With Translate, Proofread, and Ask Modes – MarkTechPost
Is Your Business Communication Losing Something in Translation? Every business owner knows that sinking feeling. You send an email in English or Chinese to a client, thinking it’s perfectly clear. But the reply feels terse, maybe even cold. It’s not the words—it’s the tone. TL;DR: Sakana Translate is a free web-based tool that focuses on…
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Alibaba Accio Work Brings AI Taskforce to Malaysian SMEs — What It Actually Does
Alibaba just launched an AI taskforce for Malaysian SMEs — here’s what it actually does Alibaba.com launched Accio Work, an agentic AI platform for Malaysian SMEs, in June 2026. It comes with a RM500,000 startup competition (CoCreate Pitch 2026, Malaysia division). Registration closes 25 August 2026. But the competition is window dressing. The product itself…
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An Indian Tech Billionaire Just Bet $30 Million That AI Will Kill Microsoft Office as We Know It
An Indian tech billionaire just bet $30 million that AI will kill Microsoft Office as we know it Bhavin Turakhia has been building successful tech companies for two decades — Directi, Radix, Titan, and Zeta. He’s backed them all with his own cash first, and he’s doing the same with his latest bet: a $30…