Arcee, a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a massive, 400B-parameter open source LLM on a $20 million shoestring budget,…
Startups
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more…
Indian startup Rocket is betting that the next big opportunity is the part before vibe coding: having AI help people…
Founders Fund has made its name backing what Peter Thiel calls “zero to one” companies — businesses that don’t just…
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyUnder a new state regulation, venture capital firms operating in California were supposed to…
In Brief Posted: 9:11 AM PDT · March 28, 2026 Image Credits:Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg / Getty Images Anthony Ha Elon Musk’s…
In Brief Posted: 4:59 PM PDT · March 27, 2026 Image Credits:Connie Loizos for TechCrunch Connie Loizos Physical Intelligence is…
Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more…
Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is…
Delve, a Y Combinator-backed compliance startup accused of fabricating certifications for its customers, has disabled the “book a demo” feature…
CommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyAs the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal…
Cedric Savarese, FormAssembly March 22, 2026 CleoP made with Midjourney.Not long ago, the idea of being a “generalist” in the…
For decades, humans have sought to harness the power of the stars to generate electricity here on Earth. And for…
The U.S. and Europe have a nickel problem. The critical mineral is used in everything from batteries and missiles to…
In Brief Posted: 11:11 PM PDT · March 18, 2026 Image Credits:Edra AI Connie Loizos Two Palantir veterans just came…
FeaturedCarl Franzen March 18, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro ImageIn the last few years, Chinese AI…
Carl Franzen March 16, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3.1 Pro Image Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known for…
Eighteen months after selling his startup to chipmaker AMD for $665 million, Finnish entrepreneur Peter Sarlin has left his role…
Carl Franzen March 13, 2026 VentureBeat made with Google Gemini 3 Pro ImageThe software engineering world is currently wrestling with…
This season on Build Mode, we’re diving into what it takes to build a world-class founding team. This week we’re exploring…