As a new AI-driven coding assistant is launched, the battle for AI-mindshare moves to developers

The legendary Silicon Valley VC firm abandons its more than 20-year tradition of keeping its funds to about $425 million.

Jun 3, 2026

The Bengaluru startup has crossed 1 million orders and reached a $50 million annualized GMV run rate within a year of launch.

Jun 3, 2026

By now, there’s hardly a coder in the world who isn’t using an AI copilot in some way. But using GitHub Copilot or Cursor.AI to ask technical questions and get debugging help could be just the beginning. AI coding may one day involve agents that can write the programs themselves based on a natural language prompt. Such programs may even replace human engineers. AI coding startups that can generate code from a natural language prompt include Replit and Bubble, among many others. Eventually, some

Nov 6, 2024

Just last year, Inflection AI was as hot as a startup could be, releasing best-in-class AI models it claimed could outperform technology from OpenAI, Meta, and Google. That’s a stark contrast compared to today, as Inflection’s new CEO tells TechCrunch that his startup is simply no longer trying to compete on that front. Between then and now, there’s of course been a major change at Inflection. Microsoft hired then-CEO Mustafa Suleyman to run its own AI business, and paid the startup $650 millio

Nov 26, 2024

Investors continue to pump money into generative AI tech. Case in point, Replit, an IDE startup developing a code-generating AI-powered tool called Ghostwriter, this week raised nearly $100 million ($97.4 million) at a $1.16 billion post-money valuation. Andreessen Horowitz led the round — a Series B extension — with participation from Khosla Ventures, Coatue, SV […]

Apr 27, 2023