Startups

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

Artificial Intelligence /

Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion behind CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s AI models have fallen

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer Read More »

Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Artificial Intelligence, Startups /

Image Credits:Steve Jennings / Getty Images 7:00 AM PDT · August 14, 2025 There aren’t many founders who can say they’ve steered the same company from scrappy startup to publicly traded platform while keeping their edge — but co-founder and CEO Aaron Levie isn’t most founders. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 , happening October 27–29 at

Inside the Box: Aaron Levie on reinvention at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Read More »

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

Artificial Intelligence /

Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop — a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability — in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up Read More »

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Artificial Intelligence, Startups /

Image Credits:Darrell Etherington with files from Getty under license 5:30 PM PDT · August 12, 2025 Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times.  The startup

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink Read More »