Category AI Startups

Spotlight on emerging AI startups and their groundbreaking solutions.

Screen-Free Wearables Are Taking Off as Users Seek Less Distraction

Screen-free wearables are booming as users reject distraction, while AI, subscriptions and health tracking redefine the category.

Vijay Pande explains why his new AI biotech firm is making fewer bets, using AI internally and focusing on healthcare delivery and trials.

AI music is splitting the EDM scene as producers accuse peers of hiding generative tracks and fans struggle to tell human from machine-made songs.

Learn how a local LLM runs on your computer, what hardware you need, and why private offline AI is gaining mainstream appeal.

Lambda’s AI debt spree includes a $1 billion loan to buy Nvidia chips for Microsoft, highlighting the boom in AI infrastructure financing.

Open-weight AI companies are becoming hot targets as Nvidia, Stripe and others race to control models, routing and enterprise deployment.

Artist scraping hit Cara in August, but the first scraper is now helping build Lantern, an open-source tool to track AI dataset use.

Hugging Face’s Microduck robot preorders start at $399. Here’s what the tiny open-source duck can do and why it matters.

Plaud launches AI note-taking earbuds with an eSIM case, transcription credits and agent tools, betting on wearable AI.

Relay is launching an AI microphone and macOS app that turns speech into text and actions, with hardware due in early 2027.