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$5B livestream shopping apps, Nvidia reveals, and the weirdest tech at CES

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“We put AI in this thing. Does it work? We’ll see.” That seemed to be the theme for some companies attending CES 2025, but looking beyond the experimental hype, there were also some significant (we think) developments and cool new products. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Margaux MacColl, Anthony Ha, and Max […]

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Hippocratic AI raises $141M for creating patient-facing AI agents

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Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $141 million Series B at a valuation of $1.64 billion led by Kleiner Perkins, the company announced Thursday. The funding comes nine months after Hippocratic AI raised a $53 million round from General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz and five

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Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore’s Law

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the performance of his company’s AI chips is advancing faster than historical rates set by Moore’s Law, the rubric that drove computing progress for decades. “Our systems are progressing way faster than Moore’s Law,” said Huang in an interview with TechCrunch on Tuesday, the morning after he delivered a keynote

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At CES 2025, Uber teams up with Nvidia to scale autonomous driving faster

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Uber will use Nvidia’s new generative world model simulation tool, Cosmos, and cloud-based AI supercomputing platform, DGX Cloud, to support the development of autonomous vehicle technology, the companies announced at CES 2025. Cosmos is being marketed to robotics and autonomy companies as a tool that generates physics-based videos from a variety of inputs, including 9,000

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Nvidia reveals Project Digits to power personal AI supercomputers at CES 2025

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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang had an extensive CES 2025 address, detailing everything from Nvidia’s next set of GPUs, its plans for embracing the next era of robotics and automotive innovation, and the launch of its own AI world models. And before he ended his keynote, Huang had one more reveal in store: Project

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Nvidia’s Project Digits is a ‘personal AI supercomputer’

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At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor. “[Project Digits] runs the entire Nvidia AI stack — all of Nvidia software runs on this,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said onstage during a press conference

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Nvidia is helping humanoid robots learn through Apple Vision Pro instruction

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Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it was heralded as a watershed moment from humanoid robotics. Most of the category’s biggest names were available from launch, including, 1X Technologies, Agility Robotics, Apptronik, Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier

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Toyota’s next-generation cars will be built with Nvidia supercomputers and operating system

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Toyota announced at CES 2025 that its next-generation vehicles will have automated driving capabilities powered by Nvidia’s Drive AGX Orin supercomputer and safety-focused operating system, DriveOS. TechCrunch has reached out to Toyota to learn more about the automaker’s plans to deploy vehicles with autonomous capabilities.  DriveOS is the operating system for Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle platform

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