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Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025

January 20, 2025

The AI startup market is sprawling, from companies looking to develop new chips, to those using AI to build robots, to others looking to use AI to create niche solutions for industry-specific workflows. There are a lot of potential areas for venture capitalists to invest in, but there are clearly a few subsectors they are […]

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The Download: AI’s coding promises, and OpenAI’s longevity push

January 20, 2025
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The second wave of AI coding is here Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you: coding. Everyone from…

The second wave of AI coding is here

January 20, 2025
Ask people building generative AI what generative AI is good for right now—what they’re really fired up about—and many will tell you: coding.  “That’s something that’s been very exciting for developers,” Jared Kaplan, chief scientist at Anthropic, told MIT Technology Review this month: “It’s really understanding what’s wrong with code, debugging it.” Copilot, a tool…

Sources: AI vision startup Metropolis is buying Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M

January 20, 2025

The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats: certain startups continue to struggle and are looking for exits. In one of the latest developments, TechCrunch has heard from a reliable source that Metropolis, an AI-powered parking platform, is buying Oosto, the controversial computer vision company that used to be known as […]

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Blinkit signals costly battle ahead in Indian quick commerce market

January 20, 2025

Quick commerce leader Blinkit is accelerating its expansion and expects continued losses as competition intensifies in India’s instant delivery market. The Zomato-owned company now aims to reach 2,000 dark stores – small warehouses in residential areas that exclusively service online orders – by December 2025, a year ahead of its previous guidance, after exceeding 1,000 […]

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