A company building Wordle for chess raises money from a16z Speedrun, Mark Pincus and Eric Wu

Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early stage games accelerator), founder of Zyanga Mark Pincus, South Park Commons (SPC), Opendoor founder and CEO Eric Wu and Stef Corazza, the Head of Generative AI at Roblox. Sami […]

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Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early stage games accelerator), founder of Zyanga Mark Pincus, South Park Commons (SPC), Opendoor founder and CEO Eric Wu and Stef Corazza, the Head of Generative AI at Roblox. Sami
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YC-backed CrowdVolt shakes up the secondary ticket market with its bid-ask model

CrowdVolt operates on a model similar to sneaker resell marketplace StockX, meaning buyers submit bids on tickets, and sellers set asking prices.

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CrowdVolt operates on a model similar to sneaker resell marketplace StockX, meaning buyers submit bids on tickets, and sellers set asking prices.
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Foundation models are massive deep-learning models that have been pretrained on an enormous amount of general-purpose, unlabeled data. They can be applied to a variety of tasks, like generating images or answering customer questions.Foundation models are massive deep-learning models that have been pretrained on an enormous amount of general-purpose, unlabeled data. They can be applied to a variety of tasks, like generating images or answering customer questions.Machine learning & AI[#item_full_content]

Exa raises $17M from Lightspeed, Nvidia, Y Combinator to build a Google for AIs

While there’s no shortage of startups aiming to replace Google with AI-powered search, a startup called Exa has a different idea. Search for the AIs.

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While there’s no shortage of startups aiming to replace Google with AI-powered search, a startup called Exa has a different idea. Search for the AIs.
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Astor’s ‘community’ approach to financial advice aims to help women feel more confident about investing

Astor is a free personal finance platform for women that merges community and investing in an approachable way, came to be.

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Astor is a free personal finance platform for women that merges community and investing in an approachable way, came to be.
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Female-founded startups have raised $15.5 billion so far this year, but that’s not really good news

The reality of the situation is that startups with all women founders will still probably raise 2% of venture capital funding this year.

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The reality of the situation is that startups with all women founders will still probably raise 2% of venture capital funding this year.
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Imitation learning is a promising method to teach robots how to reliably complete everyday tasks, such as washing dishes or cooking. Despite their potential, imitation learning frameworks rely on detailed human demonstrations, which should include data that can help to reproduce specific movements using robotic systems.Imitation learning is a promising method to teach robots how to reliably complete everyday tasks, such as washing dishes or cooking. Despite their potential, imitation learning frameworks rely on detailed human demonstrations, which should include data that can help to reproduce specific movements using robotic systems.Robotics[#item_full_content]

Imitation learning is a promising method to teach robots how to reliably complete everyday tasks, such as washing dishes or cooking. Despite their potential, imitation learning frameworks rely on detailed human demonstrations, which should include data that can help to reproduce specific movements using robotic systems.Imitation learning is a promising method to teach robots how to reliably complete everyday tasks, such as washing dishes or cooking. Despite their potential, imitation learning frameworks rely on detailed human demonstrations, which should include data that can help to reproduce specific movements using robotic systems.[#item_full_content]

Byju’s, once valued at $22 billion, faces insolvency proceedings

An Indian court has initiated insolvency proceedings against edtech giant Byju’s, once-valued at $22 billion.

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An Indian court has initiated insolvency proceedings against edtech giant Byju’s, once-valued at $22 billion.
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Toddle wants to ‘change how we build software’ with a collaborative visual web app builder

Danish startup Toddle has launched a no-code web app builder that’s designed as a full-featured alternative to Javascript frameworks.

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Danish startup Toddle has launched a no-code web app builder that’s designed as a full-featured alternative to Javascript frameworks.
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