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On the first day of Y Combinator’s winter 2024 session — right after orientation and a photo in front of the YC sign — the founders of PearAI got “canceled,” as founder Nang Ang described it to TechCrunch, receiving an outpouring of online hate. But they survived and graduated the YC’s winter 2024 cohort earlier this month with a modified idea and a new initial product. Now they’ve also made their goal of $1 million in seed funding, Ang tells TechCrunch, raising a total of $1.25 million, includ
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Cohere co-founder Nick Frosst thinks everyone needs to be more realistic about what AI can and cannot do
AI companies are gobbling up investor money and securing sky-high valuations early in their life cycle. This dynamic has many calling the AI industry a bubble. Nick Frosst, a co-founder of Cohere, which builds custom AI models for enterprise customers, recently said on TechCrunch’s Found podcast that he doesn’t think the AI industry is in a bubble. While he acknowledges the froth, he thinks calling it a bubble discredits the companies, like his own Cohere, that are creating genuinely useful fea
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Narada AI’s enterprise agent will use workplace tools for you
There’s no shortage of startups trying to create enterprise AI assistants. What’s less common is an AI assistant that can actually execute tasks across several of your work apps at once. That’s the promise of Narada AI, a startup building an AI assistant based on new research out of UC Berkeley. Narada has been operating in stealth mode for two years, and made its public debut onstage today as part of the Startup Battlefield 20 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Two of its co-founders, Kurt Keutzer an
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