TechCrunch AI
The TechCrunch AI News Feed
OpenAI Has Five Years to Turn $13 Billion Into $1 Trillion
OpenAI is generating roughly $13 billion in annual revenue—about 70% from $20/month ChatGPT subscribers—despite only ~5% of its 800 million users paying. The company has locked in more than 26 gigawatts of compute capacity from vendors including Oracle, Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom, even as it projects more than $1 trillion in spending over the next decade. To bridge the vast gap between revenue and capital needs, OpenAI plans to pursue government contracts, commerce and video services, consumer hardware, and its own Stargate data-center project over the next five years. Because many major U.S. firms now depend on OpenAI for critical contracts, the company’s ability to execute this plan has broad market and economic implications if it falters.
Mozilla’s Firefox Adds Perplexity’s AI Answer Engine as a New Search Option
Mozilla has integrated Perplexity's AI-powered answer engine into its Firefox browser, allowing users to choose AI as their search option alongside traditional engines like Google and Bing. Following positive feedback from a limited pilot in select markets, this feature will...
Google Meet Launches an AI-Powered Makeup Feature
Google Meet has introduced an AI-powered makeup filter, enhancing its "Portrait touch-up" feature to compete with similar offerings from Microsoft Teams and Zoom. The filter provides users with 12 customizable makeup options that remain consistent during movement, ensuring a natural...
Coco Robotics Taps UCLA Professor to Lead New Physical AI Research Lab
Coco Robotics has appointed UCLA professor Bolei Zhou as chief AI scientist to lead a new physical AI research lab, aiming to leverage five years of data collected from its last-mile delivery robots. The company, which has gathered millions of...
You’ll Soon Be Able to Shop Walmart From ChatGPT
Walmart has partnered with OpenAI to introduce a feature allowing customers to shop for products directly through ChatGPT, enhancing the online shopping experience for groceries and household essentials. This new capability, set to launch later this fall, will include a...
Sheryl Sandberg-Backed Flint Wants to Use AI to Autonomously Build and Update Websites
Flint, a new AI startup co-founded by Michelle Lim, has emerged from stealth mode with $5 million in seed funding led by Accel and supported by Sheryl Sandberg's Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners. The platform aims to automate the website creation...
Aquawise Will Show Off Its AI-Driven Water Quality Tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Aquawise is set to unveil its AI-driven water quality monitoring technology at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, aiming to revolutionize aquaculture practices in Southeast Asia. By utilizing satellite imagery and a physics-based AI model, the Bangkok-based startup offers continuous water quality monitoring—an...
Google to Invest $15B in Indian AI Infrastructure Hub
Google's investment in India will roll out over the next five years, through 2030.
California Becomes First State to Regulate AI Companion Chatbots
California has enacted SB 243, becoming the first state to regulate AI companion chatbots, aiming to safeguard children and vulnerable users from potential harms. The legislation introduces stringent guidelines for the development and deployment of these technologies, mandating transparency and...
Salesforce Announces Agentforce 360 as Enterprise AI Competition Heats Up
Salesforce announces an upgraded version of its Agentforce platform designed to help enterprises build and deploy AI agents.
Anduril’s New EagleEye MR Helmet Sees Palmer Luckey Return to His VR Roots
Anduril Industries has unveiled its new EagleEye MR helmet, marking a significant return to virtual reality for co-founder Palmer Luckey. This advanced mixed reality headset is designed for military applications, integrating augmented and virtual reality capabilities to enhance situational awareness...
Nvidia’s AI Empire: A Look at Its Top Startup Investments
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.
Sora Hit 1M Downloads Faster than ChatGPT
This level of consumer adoption is worth noting because Sora remains an invite-only app, while ChatGPT was more publicly available at launch. That makes Sora's performance more impressive.