ChatGPT officially gets the web search treatment

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

In today’s top story, OpenAI formally brings web search to ChatGPT. You remember ChatGPT, right? It’s only that thing we talk about every day, lol. Also, DALL-E 3 integration arrives in beta. Get the scoop.

Meanwhile, Foxconn and Nvidia came together to build “AI factories” to accelerate self-driving cars. Learn how that’s going to work. More Nvidia news below.

And just when you thought it was safe to check your genetics again, a hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on a cybercrime forum. Read more.

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More top reads

Well, blow me down: Whisper Aero unveils an ultra-quiet electric leaf blower powered by aerospace tech. Check it out.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane? No, it’s your medication: College Station, Texas, is the first location for Amazon Pharmacy’s drone deliveries. Wait, there’s more. And drone deliveries are scheduled to land in the U.K. and Italy next year. Meanwhile, Amazon and MIT are partnering to study how robots impact jobs.

No chips for you: Biden further chokes off China’s AI chip supply with Nvidia bans. Meanwhile, the company brings generative AI compatibility to robotics platforms.

The circumference of a circle divided by two times pie: Microsoft launches Radius, an open source application platform for the cloud-native era. Find out what it does.

Hacked: Russia- and China-backed hackers are exploiting the WinRAR zero-day bug. The vulnerability was patched, but there’s still a flaw.

Anything anywhere all at once: Anyplace, a startup aimed at giving “digital nomads” a comfortable place to work, nearly doubles its valuation. Find out how a pivot helped.

Searching: Objective emerges from stealth to deliver multimodal search to developers as an API platform. Read more.

For the love of money: Flanks grabs additional capital to automate wealth services in Europe so financial advisers get a full picture of their clients’ portfolio. Here’s how.

Speaking of wealth management: Peak XV invests $35 million into wealth and asset management startup Neo to offer financial advice to high net worth individuals in India. Read more.

Circle gets the Square: Square’s new AI features include a website and restaurant menu generator. See all 10 of them.

David vs. Goliath: First, meet two open source challengers to OpenAI’s “multimodal” GPT-4V. Then read what five investors had to say about the pros and cons of open source AI business models. (TC+)

It’s gone Plaid!: Fintech startup Plaid taps a former Expedia executive as its new chief financial officer. Though the company says it doesn’t have plans for an IPO “at this time,” it’s time to all hail the (eventual) Plaid IPO. (TC+)

Even more for your Wednesday:

Was Loom’s $975M exit a fair price? (TC+)

FTX misused customer funds, accounting expert who assisted in Enron prosecution testifies

Exclusive: KKR just closed its third tech growth fund with roughly $3 billion, $400 million of which came from KKR

New York VC firms form alliance to back diversity

Latin America’s Q3 2023 venture results show glimmers of light (TC+)

Meet Alliance DAO’s latest accelerator cohort of startups building in crypto winter (TC+)

Chrome’s search bar now has smarter autocomplete, automatic typo fixes and more

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On the pods

This week on Equity, Gené Teare from Crunchbase and Crunchbase News joined the podcast. She’s a well-known analyst of the global venture capital market and was instrumental to Crunchbase’s early life and remains one of its more tenured staffers. Gené, Alex and Mary Ann discussed what we should think about the Q3 2023 venture capital market as a whole and which startups are seeing the most — and the least — capital. Listen here.