AI

Sweden’s Lovable, an app-building AI platform, rakes in $15M after spectacular growth

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Using generative AI to create software has been possibly the largest use case since it first appeared a couple years ago. But platforms like Cursor and Copilot are mostly confined to a world inhabited by trained engineers.  Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, reached the front page of both Product Hunt and Hacker News last year […]

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DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app

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DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its

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Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ uses AI to help you explore job possibilities

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Google is launching a new experiment that uses AI to help people explore more career possibilities. The company announced on Wednesday that a new “Career Dreamer” tool can find patterns between your experiences, educational background, skills, and interests to connect you with careers that might be a good fit. With Career Dreamer, you can use

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Sanas taps AI to change call center workers’ accents in real time

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The demand for voice and speech recognition technologies is massive — and growing. An analysis by market research firm Markets and Markets found that the sector could be worth over $28.1 billion by 2027. There’s no shortage of vendors providing voice and speech recognition solutions, but some newer upstarts have managed to carve out niches.

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Strictly VC Download news catch-up: Slow Ventures creates a creators fund, Meta enters the humanoid bot race, and more

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This week on StrictlyVC Download, we’re catching our breath and catching up with all of the news that’s been happening in the industry. Connie Loizos and Alex Gove are breaking down the top headlines. They discuss: Slow Ventures’ new creator fund and whether or not it’s a gimmick The continuing saga of Elon Musk’s attempt

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Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia thinks he can turn things around with AI; he has a lot riding on it

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Social media is often about scale, but Nextdoor bet long ago on something different: that it could grow a big business off smaller, local communities. For years, the plan worked. The 15-year-old company has long been a dominant platform for neighborhood-based conversations, connecting users for everything from lost pet alerts to local business recommendations. Then

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