The generative boom of artificial intelligence caused a launch in a minute. But as the dust begins to settle, two once-hot business models look more like guaranteed stories: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators. Darren Mowry, who leads Google’s global startup organization across Cloud, DeepMind and Alphabet, says startups with these hooks have a red light … Read more
The battle for enterprise artificial intelligence is heating up. Microsoft integrates Copilot into Office. Google is pushing Gemini into Workspace. OpenAI and Anthropic sell directly to enterprises. Every SaaS vendor now ships an AI assistant. In the battle for the interface, Glean is betting on something less visible: becoming the intelligence layer underneath. Seven years … Read more
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent in recent weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI faces upheavals of its own, from disbanding its mission alignment team to firing a policy manager who opposed its “adult mode” feature. Watch TechCrunch Equity podcast … Read more
Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI to create what could be a blueprint for Silicon Valley’s new power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling the highest market capitalization of historic conglomerate GE, and Musk vocal about his view that “technical victory is determined by the speed of innovation,” the question is … Read more