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One of China’s most highly anticipated artificial intelligence startups is undergoing a significant change of direction. Light Year, which was founded merely four months ago by Wang Huiwen, a co-founder of Meituan, with the ambition of becoming the “OpenAI for China”, is getting bought out. In a filing released on Thursday, Meituan announced that it […]

Meituan buys founder’s months-old ‘OpenAI for China’ for $234M by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Just about every developer wants to create APIs to help other companies connect to their services more easily, but creating and documenting an API is a time consuming process. Speakeasy, an early stage startup, wants to make that an easier and more automated set of activities. Today, the company emerged from stealth with a $7.6 […]

Speakeasy is using AI to automate API creation and distribution by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar. While a lot of the shopping features that Microsoft built into Edge over the years aren’t exactly fan favorites, this new set of tools actually looks useful. Microsoft will now, […]

Microsoft brings new AI-powered shopping tools to Bing and Edge by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch