Tag: #Startups

Ouster’s new color LiDAR replaces cameras

For the past decade, the tech industry has been considering whether self-driving cars need LIDAR sensors, cameras, or all of the above. LiDAR company Ouster says it has found a new answer: putting both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new lineup of lidar sensors it calls “Rev8.” All […]

Nicolas Sauvage is betting on the boring part of AI

Nicolas Sauvage believes it takes four years for the best bet to be considered wise. I’m thinking about when I said this on stage last week at StrictlyVC’s San Francisco event, co-hosted by TDK Ventures. It’s a theory he’s been trying to prove since 2019, when he founded the Japanese electronics giant’s corporate venture arm, […]

‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole art

You’ve seen this cartoon before, right? An anthropomorphic dog sits smiling, surrounded by flames, and says, “That’s it.” The cartoon has become one of the most enduring memes of the past decade, and AI startup Artisan has apparently incorporated it into its advertising campaign. The cartoon’s creator, KC Green, claimed that his art was stolen […]

This tiny magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomscrolling

It was love at first sight. It felt like walking around a shopping mall, going in and out of a vast department store, looking for a certain elusive item, and finally finding what you were looking for. However, I didn’t even know I was looking for something like the Xteink X3. Because I never had […]

Best AI dictation apps tested and ranked

AI dictation apps have come a long way in a short period of time. For years, they were slow and imprecise unless you spoke with a specific accent and enunciated clearly. Advances in large-scale language models (LLMs) and speech-to-text models have changed the game, creating systems that can more accurately decode speech while preserving enough […]

Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch

Europe should be known for BottleCap AI, not BottleCap memes. This Prague-based AI startup with a tongue-in-cheek name is one of the teams VCs think you should know about. It’s not that European startups are completely immune to noise. Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are plenty of other companies that […]

Uber wants to turn millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies

Uber has long-term ambitions that go far beyond picking up and dropping off passengers. The company ultimately wants to absorb real-world data for self-driving vehicle (AV) companies by equipping cars with human drivers with sensors to help them and potentially other companies train AI models in physical-world scenarios. Uber Chief Technology Officer Praveen Neppalli Naga […]