AI Startups

ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand | TechCrunch

ScaleOps just raised $130M to tackle GPU shortages and soaring AI cloud costs by automating infrastructure in real time.

AI chip startup Rebellions raises $400 million at $2.3B valuation in pre-IPO round | TechCrunch

The startup, which is planning to go public later this year, designs chips specifically for AI inference, another challenger to Nvidia's ...

Starcloud raises $170 million Series Ato build data centers in space | TechCrunch

Starcloud becomes the fastest Y Combinator startup to reach unicorn status, just 17 months after demo day.

[2603.02542] AnchorDrive: LLM Scenario Rollout with Anchor-Guided Diffusion Regeneration for Safety-Critical Scenario Generation

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.02542: AnchorDrive: LLM Scenario Rollout with Anchor-Guided Diffusion Regeneration for Safety-Critical...

[2603.02540] A Neuropsychologically Grounded Evaluation of LLM Cognitive Abilities

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.02540: A Neuropsychologically Grounded Evaluation of LLM Cognitive Abilities

[2603.02528] LLM-MLFFN: Multi-Level Autonomous Driving Behavior Feature Fusion via Large Language Model

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.02528: LLM-MLFFN: Multi-Level Autonomous Driving Behavior Feature Fusion via Large Language Model

[2603.02222] MedCalc-Bench Doesn't Measure What You Think: A Benchmark Audit and the Case for Open-Book Evaluation

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.02222: MedCalc-Bench Doesn't Measure What You Think: A Benchmark Audit and the Case for Open-Book Eval...

[2603.02220] Forecasting as Rendering: A 2D Gaussian Splatting Framework for Time Series Forecasting

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.02220: Forecasting as Rendering: A 2D Gaussian Splatting Framework for Time Series Forecasting

[2603.02215] RxnNano:Training Compact LLMs for Chemical Reaction and Retrosynthesis Prediction via Hierarchical Curriculum Learning

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.02215: RxnNano:Training Compact LLMs for Chemical Reaction and Retrosynthesis Prediction via Hierarchi...

Why AI startups are selling the same equity at two different prices | TechCrunch

Some AI founders are using a novel valuation mechanism to manufacture unicorn status.

Alibaba's Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push | TechCrunch

Reactions rippled through Alibaba's Qwen team after tech lead Junyang Lin stepped down following a major model launch.

[P] We made GoodSeed, a pleasant ML experiment tracker

GoodSeed v0.3.0 🎉 I and my friend are pleased to announce GoodSeed - a ML experiment tracker which we are now using as a replacement for ...

UCI Digital Learning Lab launching AI in higher education course | New University

Massive AI deals drive $189B startup funding record in February

Crunchbase data shows global venture investment totaled $189 billion in February, although 83% of capital raised went to just three compa...

Xiaomi, unlike Google and Samsung, thinks camera hardware comes first | The Verge

Angus Ng explains why Xiaomi’s cameras aren’t all about AI.

[R] Boundary-Metric Evaluation for Thin-Structure Segmentation under 2% Foreground Sparsity

Hey! I'm currently a undergrad student graduating in May and soon starting my Masters in AI. I've wanted to write a research paper to sta...

[P] On-device Qwen3-TTS (1.7B/0.6B) inference on iOS and macOS via MLX-Swift — voice cloning, voice design, and streaming TTS with no cloud

Hey r/MachineLearning. I'm a solo dev working on on-device TTS using MLX-Swift with Qwen3-TTS. 1.7B model on macOS, 0.6B on iOS, quantize...

[2602.11909] Echo: Towards Advanced Audio Comprehension via Audio-Interleaved Reasoning

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.11909: Echo: Towards Advanced Audio Comprehension via Audio-Interleaved Reasoning

[2602.08542] Incremental (k, z)-Clustering on Graphs

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2602.08542: Incremental (k, z)-Clustering on Graphs

[2511.02137] DoFlow: Flow-based Generative Models for Interventional and Counterfactual Forecasting on Time Series

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2511.02137: DoFlow: Flow-based Generative Models for Interventional and Counterfactual Forecasting on Time ...

[2507.07469] A Projection-Based ARIMA Framework for Nonlinear Dynamics in Macroeconomic and Financial Time Series: Closed-Form Estimation and Rolling-Window Inference

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2507.07469: A Projection-Based ARIMA Framework for Nonlinear Dynamics in Macroeconomic and Financial Time S...

[2505.09365] ARCANE -- Early Detection of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2505.09365: ARCANE -- Early Detection of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections

[2406.04098] A Large-Scale Neutral Comparison Study of Survival Models on Low-Dimensional Data

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2406.04098: A Large-Scale Neutral Comparison Study of Survival Models on Low-Dimensional Data