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#Avoca, an #AIstartup founded by MIT engineers, pivoted from targeting #restaurants to HVAC companies after realising the higher value of #missedcalls in the latter industry. The company, which builds #AIagents for #physicalservice businesses, has raised over $125 million and is valued at $1 billion. https://fortune.com/2026/04/27/avoca-ai-agents-missed-calls-hvac-plumbing-roofing-kleiner-perkins-chen-shrivastava-braswell/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup

Avoca, founded by two MIT grads, brings Silicon Valley tech to trades like plumbing, roofing, and HVAC.

Fortune

sayzard 4d ago

TestingCatalog News (@testingcatalog)

메타가 로봇용 AI 모델을 개발하는 스타트업 Assured Robot Intelligence를 인수했다. 로봇 지능과 피지컬 AI 분야 강화로 이어질 가능성이 높은 인수 소식이다.

https://x.com/testingcatalog/status/2050331092016619867

#meta #robotics #aistartup #physicalai #acquisition

TestingCatalog News 🗞 (@testingcatalog) on X

Meta acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing AI models for robots. Will we see Metabots soon? 🦾🤖

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eicker.news ᳇ tech news Apr 29

#Poolside, a US #AIstartup, launched two new large language models, #Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2. Laguna XS.2, a 33-billion parameter #opensource model, is designed for #localagenticcoding tasks and can be run on #consumer grade #GPUs. Both models were trained from scratch using a specialised digital environment. https://venturebeat.com/technology/american-ai-startup-poolside-launches-free-high-performing-open-model-laguna-xs-2-for-local-agentic-coding?eicker.news #tech #media #news

The Bad Place Apr 22

All Content from Business Insider | Inside the AI startup Elon Musk is betting $60 billion on by Shubhangi Goel

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The piece highlights several quick AI‑driven experiments that illustrate how rapidly the technology is reshaping everyday work and learning. It recounts how a parent and their 8‑year‑old built a simple app in three hours using AI tools, how a coder leveraged AI to rank tech companies by the quality of their workplace food, an attempt to see whether AI could replace task‑management platforms like Asana by building a prototype in fifteen minutes, and a look at how AI constraints are redefining the typical Saturday workday. Together, these stories show AI’s fast‑moving influence on both personal projects and broader workplace practices.

#ElonMusk #AIstartup #AI #tech #VibeCoding

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Inside the AI startup Elon Musk is betting $60 billion on

The 4-year-old startup just propelled SpaceX in the AI coding race.

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eicker.news ᳇ tech news Apr 18

#Recursive Superintelligence, a London-based #AIstartup founded by Richard Socher, raised at least $500 million in a funding round led by Google’s GV. The company, valued at $4 billion, aims to #automate various aspects of #AIdevelopment, including evaluation, data selection, training, and research direction. https://www.implicator.ai/recursive-superintelligence-raises-500m-from-gv-and-nvidia-at-4b-valuation/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Recursive Superintelligence Raises $500M at $4B Valuation

Recursive Superintelligence, founded by Richard Socher, raised at least $500M in a round led by Google's GV with backing from Nvidia at a $4B valuation. The FT named former DeepMind and OpenAI researchers as co-founders, confirming the lineup Socher previewed to Implicator.ai last week.

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Asian Talks Apr 18

From Mumbai To MENA: Why Vishal Jariwala Is Building Asia's Next Category-Defining AI Platform

#TheAsianTalks #Business #AIAndCapital #VishalJariwala #Adsnex #AIFI #AIStartup #IndianStartup #StartupIndia #AIPlatform #AdTech #DigitalAdvertising #ArtificialIntelligence #AIInnovation #AIEntrepreneur #TechStartup #StartupFunding #PreSeedFunding #VentureCapital #StartupEcosystem #IndiaToMENA #MENAStartups #GlobalExpansion

https://theasiantalks.com/from-mumbai-to-mena-why-vishal-jariwala-is-building-asias-next-category-defining-ai-platform/

From Mumbai To MENA: Why Vishal Jariwala Is Building Asia's Next Category-Defining AI Platform - Asian Talks

Asia is not short of AI announcements. It is short of operators who can commercialise at scale and who already have customers in more than one country. Vishal

Asian Talks