Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle startup Joby Aviation has launched a public offering to sell up to $200 million of its shares of common stock, per a regulatory filing. Joby said it will use the proceeds from the raise — together with its existing cash — to fund its certification and manufacturing efforts, prepare […]
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Elias Torres has achieved a lot for somebody who immigrated to the U.S. from Nicaragua at 17 without knowing any English. He served as a VP of engineering at HubSpot before co-founding Drift, a company that sold to Vista Equity for about $1.2 billion in 2021. “It’s very rare to get this far, but I’m […]
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AI-focused search startup Perplexity launched its native Mac app today to compete with other AI apps like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Quora’s Poe app — the latter aggregates different large language models. Perplexity had teased the app earlier this month and asked users to sign up for pre-orders so they get a notification when the app […]
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Airbnb hosting has become a complicated business, from setting up a listing and managing the property to understanding price dynamics, communicating with customers, and tracking earnings. The tricky part is that the more properties hosts manage, the harder it becomes for them to juggle everything. To solve this problem, Airbnb is introducing the Co-Host Network feature, […]
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After releasing soundbars, portable speakers, wireless earbuds, Devialet is now going back to its roots with a new amplifier — the Devialet Astra.
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Reliance’s digital arm, Jio Platforms, has launched two new 4G-enabled handsets that offer access to live TV, music, and video streaming, as well as host the ability to make digital payments, all for a price tag of 1099 rupees ($13), as India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani pushes to woo the hundreds of millions of people […]
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In August, Elon Musk’s xAI promised to make Grok, the company’s flagship generative AI model powering a number of features on X, available via an API. Now, that API has arrived — albeit a bit barren at the moment. The xAI only has one model available, “grok-beta,” priced at $5 per million input tokens (~750,000 […]
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OpenAI introduced a new way to interact with ChatGPT on Thursday: an interface it calls “canvas.” The product opens a separate window, beside the normal chat window, with a workspace for writing and coding projects. Users can generate writing or code directly in the canvas, then highlight sections of the work to have the model […]
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It’s been the stuff of science fiction for decades: to provide gigawatts of cheap, clean power anywhere on Earth, day or night, using satellites that collect and transmit solar energy directly on orbit. Aetherflux, a new startup emerging from stealth Wednesday, says it is developing a novel design for space-based solar to unlock this energy […]
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The Browser Company, the startup behind the alternative web browser Arc, announced on Thursday it’s launching its Arc Search browser on Android in open beta in a move to become a cross-platform app. Arc, already had apps in the Apple ecosystem until last year, then launched a Windows client in April ahead of launching on Android. The […]
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