Hello, People, welcome to the week in review (WIR), the Techcrunch newsletter covering remarkable events in the technology industry.
This week, the investment company KKR announcement that it acquires the computer activity of the Broadcom’s final VMware user for $ 4 billion. As Ron explains, this company included VMware Workspace One and VMware Horizon – two remote office applications that were part of the VMware family of products.
Elsewhere, Mistral aiThe French startup of the AI, launched a new model to compete with the Openai GPT -4 – and its own constituted chatbot nicknamed the cat. The versions were timed With a Microsoft partnership to provide Mistral models to Microsoft Azure customers – and a minority investment ($ 16 million) from Microsoft to Mistral.
Many others have arrived. We are recaping everything in this edition of Wir – but first of all, a reminder register To receive the WIR newsletter in your reception box every Saturday.
News
Apple because cancelled: Apple has scuttled its longtime secret effort to build an autonomous electric car. The company probably reduces hundreds of employees of the team, and all the work on the project has stopped. He joined a List of other projects that Apple has put back to different stagesIncluding air power and a television (not to be confused with Apple TV).
Bumble stumbles: Bumble displayed low results in the fourth quarter showing a net loss of $ 32 million and $ 273.6 million in income – below Wall Street expectations. To straighten the ship, CEO Lidiane Jones announced that 30% of Bumble’s workforce, around 350 employees, would be released and that Bumbles would undertake an application of application aimed at reviving growth.
Google’s AI is bad: Google apologized for an embarrassing AI error this week: an image generating model that injected diversity into images with a ridiculous contempt For the historical context. Although the underlying problem is perfectly understandable, Google blames the model of “becoming” overtime.
Bad look: Matt Mullenweg, CEO of the owner of Tumblr Automattic, is supposed to be on sabbatical leave. Instead, he was arguing with Tumblr users this week on a content moderation decision that sparked transphobia accusations, Amanda reports.
The founder forced to go out: Last Friday, a group of investors from Byju voted to withdraw the founder and chief executive officer of the Edtech group, Byju Raveendran, and separated an oppression and management action against the management of the company separately to block the Recently launched rights.
Funding
Genai ebooks: Inkitt, a self-publishing platform using AI to develop bestsellers, has raised $ 37 million. The application of the startup allows people to self-publish stories, then, using AI and data science, selects what it believes to be the most convincing of these items to modify and then distribute and sell.
Keep his old school: Lapse has collected $ 30 million for its smartphone application that makes you wait until the photos are “developed” – without risk of modifying and resuming – before sharing them with a group of selected friends if you choose.
Analysis
Techstars counts: Mary Ann interviewed Maëlle Gavet, CEO of the starting accelerator program TechisIn the wake of changes in its operations which attracted the criticism of the dead.
Podcasts
On EquityThe crew talked about Startup News from Microsoft and Mistral AI, Thrasio and Glean – and also covered events at Cottu Ventures and Zacua Ventures.
In the meantime, Find in light Ariel Kaye, the founder of Parachute, a bedding and direct household items to consumers.
And during Chain reactionTC withdrew from the archives to broadcast an earlier conversation with Jack Lu, CEO and co-founder of Magic Eden, an NFT market “centered on the community”.
Bonus
Mirai highly at reduced prices: Toyota offers $ 40,000 reduction on a Toyota Mirai Limited 2023, a fuel battery vehicle that costs $ 66,000 – plus $ 15,000 in free hydrogen over six years. As Tim writes, there is only one socket: find hydrogen to feed it.