Browsing: Rush

The players sometimes change. I sat down with four of Benchmark’s partners three years ago, and three of those individuals are no longer with the firm. The capital commitments have changed, too. This summer, Benchmark announced $2 billion across two funds, marking only the second time in its 31-year history that it has veered from…

BEIJING/SHENZHEN, Sept 23 (Reuters) – When Zhu Zhili was looking for a base to set up an artificial intelligence film studio in China two years ago, there was just one clear choice: the southern city of Shenzhen with its vast tech ecosystem.

Add preferred source2 Soaring AI model costs are pushing a growing number of AI startups—including Harvey, Abridge, Decagon, and Ramp—to shift toward open-weight models, reducing their dependence on OpenAI and Anthropic. Legal tech firm Harvey saw its gross margin plunge to negative 50% earlier this year before launching its own model based on Moonshot AI’s…

In 2021, RushTok captivated audiences as PNMs (potential new members) posted their OOTDs (outfits of the day) that made their way to the FYP (For You page, though hopefully you already knew that one).

When AI security startup HiddenLayer raised its $50 million Series A three years ago, one of the big questions in the space was whether the AI threats the startup was protecting against would manifest in enough quantity to make for a real market. As my former colleague Kyle Wiggers noted at the time, it was…

The gold rushes that drew hundreds of thousands of people to the American West may have left behind more than abandoned mines. In a new study, a team of researchers co-led by The University of Texas at Austin found that communities shaped by gold rushes developed an entrepreneurial legacy that remains visible today. “The gold…