AI image generation just took a huge step forward
We’ve been living with AI-generated images for a while now, but this week, some of the major players took some big steps forward. In particular, I’m talking about significant updates …
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Another week in the circle of startup life
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. I’m Anna Heim from TechCrunch’s international team, and I’ll be writing this newsletter …
xAI releases Grok-2, adds image generation on X
Elon Musk-owned launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images on the X social network, though Grok access …
VCs are selling shares of hot AI companies like Anthropic and xAI to small investors in a wild SPV market
VCs are clamoring to invest in hot AI companies, willing to pay exorbitant share prices for coveted spots on their cap tables. Even so, most aren’t able to get into …
Elon Musk’s xAI nears close of deal valuing the artificial intelligence start-up at US$24 billion
The company was slated to wrap up a roughly US$6 billion financing earlier this month, but the final close still has not happened in the deal, which has been in …
X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI
X, formerly Twitter, is now using Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to power a feature that summarizes the personalized trending stories in the app’s Explore section. According to an announcement …
Elon Musk’s Grok Will Get All Its News From X
Elon Musk says Grok’s real-time news feature, which is going about as well as you’d expect so far, will get information purely from “summarizing what people say on X,” in …
X makes Grok chatbot available to premium subscribers
Social network X is rolling out access to xAI’s Grok chatbot to Premium tier subscribers after Elon Musk announced the expansion to more paid users last month. The company said …
Canoo Spent Double Its Revenue On CEO’s Private Jet
Good morning! It’s Thursday, April 4, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are …
xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code
Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced the base code of Grok AI model, but without any training code. The company described it as the “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Expert model” on GitHub. …