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How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans
OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral
YC deleted a controversial demo video from one of its startups, which monitors factory workers with AI cameras. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Anthropic’s latest flagship AI might not have been incredibly costly to train
Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. That’s according to Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who in an X post on Monday relayed a clarification he’d received from Anthropic’s PR. “I was contacted by Anthropic who told me…
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Perplexity launches $50M seed and pre-seed VC fund
Perplexity, the developer of an AI-powered search engine, is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund, CNBC reported. Although the majority of the capital is coming from limited partners, Perplexity is using some of the capital it raised for the company’s growth to anchor the fund. Perplexity has reportedly raised $500 million at…
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DOGE has an official ‘acting’ administrator, and it’s not Elon Musk, White House confirms
Amy Gleason is named as the acting administrator of DOGE, amid ambiguity over Elon Musk’s role. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch — slowly
On Tuesday afternoon, Anthropic launched Claude Plays Pokémon on Twitch, a live stream of Anthropic’s newest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, playing a game of Pokémon Red. It’s become a fascinating experiment of sorts, showcasing the capabilities of today’s AI tech and people’s reactions to them. AI researchers have used all sorts of video games,…
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Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson steps down
Lucid Motors is changing CEOs for the first time in nearly six years. The company announced Tuesday that Peter Rawlinson is stepping down from the CEO and CTO roles that he’s held since before the company went public. Lucid appointed its chief operating officer Marc Winterhoff as its interim CEO. Rawlinson will serve as “strategic…
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Apptronik’s humanoid robots take the first steps toward building themselves
Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots, on Tuesday announced a new pilot partnership with American supply chain/manufacturing stalwart, Jabil. The deal arrives two weeks after Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A financing round aimed at scaling up production of its Apollo robot. The Jabil deal is the second major pilot announced by Apptronik.…
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OpenAI rolls out deep research to paying ChatGPT users
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out deep research, its web browsing agent that creates thorough research reports, to all paying ChatGPT users. ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers will get 10 deep research queries per month. OpenAI’s Deep research was previously only available to ChatGPT Pro users, the company’s $200-a-month tier; they…
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Framous is a new Mac app for adding device frames to screenshots
A new Mac app called Framous launched on Tuesday, giving you the ability to add device frames around screenshots to make them look more professional. The helpful new tool can aid app developers, graphic designers, and even journalists who need to add an iPhone or Mac frame—also known as a mockup or template—to photos. This…