Month: August 2024

What margins? AI’s business model is changing fast, says Cohere founder

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OpenAI and Anthropic spend billions of dollars a year training models like GPT-4 and Claude, but competitive price dumping is making the business around these platforms rather precarious. Aidan Gomez, CEO of competing AI provider Cohere, says that selling access to models is quickly becoming a “zero margin business” in a podcast appearance on Monday. … Read more

What Is Your Perspective?

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The above image is a beautiful image of a butterfly meshed in vibrant colors with musical notes all across it. With so much going on in it, what one person sees in it (at least at first) can be very different from another person. A little while ago, I was working on a neural style … Read more

TechCrunch Space: Spending less

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Hello, and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Did you hear? Bridgit Mendler will be joining me onstage at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt to talk all things ground stations. She’s just one of the incredible space industry entrepreneurs who will be coming this year. Find out more information here. October 28-30 — see you there! Want … Read more

Plain text passwords may have struck again

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Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge National Public Data (NPD) confirmed last week that it suffered a security breach dating back to December last year. An alleged stolen NPD database containing 2.9 billion lines of data, including Social Security numbers, was advertised on the dark web in April by a hacker group known … Read more

INFINIT Opening DApp Creation To All With First-Ever DeFi Abstraction Layer

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BANGKOK Thailand, August 19th, 2024/Chainwire/–INFINIT, the first-of-its-kind DeFi abstraction layer, today announces that it will soon open dApp creation to all, allowing anyone to build and customize DeFi applications in a matter of minutes. INFINIT is a DeFi infrastructure that abstracts away complexities to launch and scale decentralized finance applications across any integrated chain. Like … Read more

Master Thinkers: 5 Habits That They Have

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Navigating complex problems, generating insights, and finding solutions that others didn’t know existed is the most admired skill at work. Yet, very few people are able to do it well—the ability to think critically is a rare skill. Most people lack thinking muscles because they treat it as a born gift instead of an acquired … Read more

Startups Dilemma: Build vs Buy

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Picture this: you’re a startup founder (or CTO) with a vision of a product burning bright in your mind. You’re ready to conquer your dreams, armed with nothing but your idea and a laptop. Well, hopefully with some VC money too. You hire your early engineers and embark on your entrepreneurial journey. Soon though, you … Read more

Gemini Live could use some more rehearsals

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What’s the point of chatting with a human-like bot if it’s an unreliable narrator — and has a colorless personality? That’s the question I’ve been turning over in my head since I began testing Gemini Live, Google’s take on OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, last week. Gemini Live is an attempt at a more engaging chatbot … Read more

Now a million people can watch you fumble Zoom’s screen share settings at once

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Zoom on Monday announced a new single-user webinar feature that caps out at 1 million attendees. The addition comes less than a month after the #WinWithBlackWomen fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris peaked at 44,000 users before crashing. More recently, an X interview between owner Elon Musk and Harris’ challenger, Donald Trump, crashed prior to … Read more