When it comes to searching for odd vehicles on China’s largest online shopping site, I try not to limit myself too much. Sure it’s fun to find various things that zip around on wheels, treads, wings, or fins. But sometimes, you have to expand your horizon beyond just air, land, and sea. That’s the case with this week’s find for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week. Meet…
Mine’s $30M boost will bring AI-based privacy to the enterprise
December 9, 2023
In a turbulent year for venture capital investing, Mine countered the trend with a Series B $30 million funding round co-led by PayPal Ventures and Battery Ventures, with notable investment from Nationwide Ventures.
The shift in regulation for both consumer and employee…
Stanford and Meta inch towards AI that acts human with new ‘CHOIS’ interaction model
December 9, 2023
Researchers from Stanford University and Meta’s Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab have developed a breakthrough AI system that can generate natural, synchronized motions between virtual humans and objects based solely on text descriptions.
The new system, dubbed CHOIS…
Justin Maier, the Mormon-raised, Boise, Idaho-based founder of open-source AI platform Civitai, has had a wild year — and a rough few months.
His company was founded a year ago to support a community discovering, creating and sharing models and image-generated content based on the popular text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion. Since then, it has exploded from a four-person startup and less…
ChatGPT rival Pi launches on Android
December 9, 2023
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Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid…
US Senator Calls for Light Crypto Regulation That Doesn't Kill Innovation and Drive Companies Offshore
December 9, 2023
A U.S. senator says Congress needs to regulate the crypto industry “with a light touch that doesn’t kill innovation in the U.S.” Noting that crypto “has the potential to disrupt much of the traditional banking model,” he stressed that crypto regulation needs to be…
Farzam Ehsani, the founder and CEO of the South African crypto exchange Valr, has stated that institutional traders account for the bulk of the African continent’s crypto trading volumes. To support this point, Ehsani referred to Valr’s largest volumes which he said “are executed via our API by institutional traders deploying a host of programmatic trading strategies.”
African Regulators…
Japan Mulls Exempting Companies From Paying Taxes on Unrealized Cryptocurrency Gains
December 9, 2023
Japan is considering exempting corporations from paying unrealized gains income taxes related to cryptocurrency holdings. The measure, proposed as part of a reform in Japan’s tax code, would allow companies to avoid paying taxes for cryptocurrencies even if their market…
ChatGPT rival Pi launches on Android
December 9, 2023
Inflection AI, the Palo Alto-based startup founded by DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, just announced that its AI chatbot ‘Pi’ is now available as a dedicated app on Android.
The move, which is expected to give billions of users…
In the equivalent of a mic drop, open source model startup Mistral AI released a new LLM today with nothing but a torrent link.
It immediately created community buzz for the stark contrast with Google’s Gemini release this week, or what OpenAI’s Andrej Karpathy called in an X-post “an over-rehearsed professional release video talking about a revolution in AI.”
One of Google’s demo…
