Elon Musk slams 'pretentious' US AI firms as Chinese rivals close inThe billionaire was commenting on a viral thread on X which argued that Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek and Kimi are outperforming expectatio...
20 Jul, 2026, 07.28 PM IST
China's Kimi K3 rattles US AI industryKimi K3, a new artificial intelligence program from a Chinese startup called Moonshot AI, stunned the US tech industry on Friday, setting o...
18 Jul, 2026, 02.18 PM IST
Vibe-coding startup Emergent's valuation jumps 5x to $1.5 billion in new fundingThe latest financing takes Emergent's total capital raised since inception to $230 million. The startup last raised $70 million in January,...
15 Jul, 2026, 06.29 PM IST
AI founder says even a $300,000 salary in San Francisco left him stressed, moved to Argentina where rent is 10x cheaper and he's happierStartup founder Koby Conrad moved his business to Buenos Aires, Argentina. He found a more affordable life and greater peace of mind there....
15 Jul, 2026, 12.45 AM IST
US panic is missing the point on Chinese AISince last year, I have been tracking the trend of American startups using Chinese AI. This year, the shift has become harder to ignore. Bu...
14 Jul, 2026, 08.53 PM IST
Elevation Capital closes $500 million India fund; to back startups building on AI’s app layerThrough its ninth India fund, Elevation will back early-stage startups building AI-led businesses tackling India's large, operationally com...
14 Jul, 2026, 05.14 PM IST
China's DeepSeek considers new fundraising after first roundChinese AI startup DeepSeek is considering another funding round. This comes just one month after closing its initial financing. The compan...
14 Jul, 2026, 04.31 PM IST
Meet DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng, the Chinese entrepreneur who is now world's richest AI founder, surpassing Anthropic's Dario AmodeiDeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth has significantly increased after a recent funding round. He is now the world's wealthiest creat...
14 Jul, 2026, 01.01 PM IST
DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng tops Dario Amodei and Greg Brockman as richest AI founderLiang is now worth $36 billion, up from about $16.7 billion previously, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That ranks him well ...
14 Jul, 2026, 12.01 PM IST
He learned one lesson at his family's Michigan business. Now it's a $1 billion AI startupApurva Shrivastava, an Indian-origin entrepreneur who studied in MIT, founded Avoca after observing missed customer calls. This AI startup ...
13 Jul, 2026, 07.55 PM IST
Apple sues OpenAI, two former employees for trade secrets theftApple has sued OpenAI and two former employees alleging trade secret theft. The lawsuit claims confidential information was used to acceler...
11 Jul, 2026, 06.08 AM IST
Mukesh Bansal-led Nurix AI acquires Verloop to expand enterprise offeringsFounded in 2024, Nurix develops AI software for enterprises to automate customer support and other business processes. Through this deal, V...
09 Jul, 2026, 08.29 PM IST
Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources sayChinese authorities are meeting with tech firms about restricting AI model access. These discussions aim to protect advanced artificial int...
07 Jul, 2026, 05.11 PM IST
China's DeepSeek developing its own AI chipThe chip is designed for inference - the stage of AI computing in which a trained model generates responses for users - rather than for tra...
07 Jul, 2026, 04.23 PM IST
Cred’s angels, institutional investors score big in Meta dealThe sale is part of Meta’s $900 million investment in Cred, which valued the Kunal Shah-founded company at about $4 billion. The transactio...
03 Jul, 2026, 01.15 PM IST
PE-VCs push structural reboot; Cred backers’ Meta gainsHappy Friday! India’s PE-VC lobby is seeking a structural overhaul to woo foreign capital and fund managers. This and more in today’s ETtec...
03 Jul, 2026, 07.47 AM IST
Elon Musk says Grok 4.5 is now in private beta, claims performance near or above Anthropic's OpusMusk said reinforcement learning is continuing to improve the model and that "Grok Build," xAI's coding-agent harness, is being refined dai...
28 Jun, 2026, 06.24 PM IST