Netizens are calling out ADOR for its response to accusations of BeLift Lab plagiarizing NewJeans‘ concepts. NewJeans | @newjeans_official/Instagram On November 29, ADOR revealed the contents of the email sent to NewJeans in response to their eight requests for the label, which included the issue with BeLift Lab. Former ADOR CEO Min Hee Jin had […]
Bridgit Mendler’s Northwood makes ground station connection with Planet Labs in key test
Northwood Space, the startup founded by former Disney star Bridgit Mendler, nailed a key test last week when its ground station unit successfully connected with orbiting Planet Labs satellites. Operating from Planet’s ground station in Maddock, North Dakota, the team successfully showed the startup’s novel phased-array antenna system can transmit data to and from satellites […]
Fei-Fei Li picks Google Cloud, where she led AI, as World Labs’ main compute provider
Cloud providers are chasing after AI unicorns, and the latest is Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs. The startup just tapped Google Cloud as its primary compute provider to train AI models, a deal that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But Li’s tenure as chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud wasn’t a factor, […]
Grok’s image generator, Black Forest Labs, is raising $100M at a $1B valuation, say sources
While OpenAI pursues yet another monster fundraise, it is not stealing all the oxygen in the room: AI startups building promising foundational models can still open doors, and checkbooks. Multiple sources tell us that Black Forest Labs — a startup that’s building generative AI image models and came out of stealth two months ago with […]
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs comes out of stealth with $230M in funding
Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford professor many deem the “Godmother of AI,” has raised $ 230 million for her new startup, World Labs, from backers including Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, and Radical Ventures. World Labs is valued at over $ 1 billion, and the capital was raised over two rounds spaced a couple of months apart, TechCrunch […]