Podcast Episodes

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama

30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a U.S. co…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Jennifer Garner’s Once Upon a Farm resumes IPO plans; plus, Fashion rental app By Rotation partners with Uber

Once Upon A Farm food company may debut as soon as next week. It has issued a price range for shares, an SEC filing shows.

Also, By Rotation, one of …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’; plus, Risotto raises $10M seed to use AI to make ticketing systems easier to use

Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’

Also, designed to autonomously resolve help desk tickets, Risotto has …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Space Force contract; plus, AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation

This is the El Segundo, California-based startup's second raise in less than a year.

Also, Ricursive joins Recursive and Unconventional AI in raising…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’

Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigg…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

How PopWheels helped a food cart ditch generators for e-bike batteries

PopWheels realized its battery swapping network could be used for more than food delivery workers who need to charge their e-bikes. Now, its planning…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

This startup will send 1,000 people’s ashes to space — affordably — in 2027

Started by an engineer who worked on the space shuttle program, and at Blue Origin, Space Beyond has a spot on a 2027 Falcon 9 flight.

Learn more abo…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

OpenAI is coming for those sweet enterprise dollars; plus, Anduril expanding to Long Beach

OpenAI has reportedly appointed Barret Zoph to lead its push into enterprise just a week after Zoph rejoined the company.

Also, Anduril announced its…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Struggling fusion power company General Fusion to go public via $1B reverse merger

General Fusion's merger with an acquisition company will net the company over $300 million. Just last year, the company ran into trouble raising mone…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math …

2 months, 3 weeks ago