Canva Craft, the first ever image model by @canva, takes the #4 spot on DesignArena's Image leaderboard. This makes Canva the #2 Image Lab after @OpenAI! Notably, it wins most often on photorealistic product and object shots, setting up studio-style lighting and detailed material textures on a single hero object. It also ranks #1 on the Portrait and Landscape subcategories. Congrats to the @canva team on the launch!

Introducing Voxel, a droid butler made by Tuesday Labs.

Greptile is going to be a massive company.

Introducing overshoot, it will cut your GPU bill in half with zero quality loss, or you don’t pay. Over the past few months, we have forward deployed into AI teams to optimize their inference stacks. They have now cumulatively saved over $5M. Overshoot is software that bakes in our hard-earned inference learnings into a scalable solution. overshoot.ai

At Proximal, we believe that building our own research infrastructure is crucial to design the highest-quality training data Today, we are sharing more information about our internal post-training stack

Today, I'm thrilled to announce Flai's $27M Series A, led by Base10, bringing our total funding to $33M This round also brings in some of the biggest names in automotive. With Toyota Ventures, Friedkin, and Findlay Automotive Group on board, we're now backed by the people who build, distribute, service, and sell cars. A year ago, we announced our seed round with one product: an AI that answers the phone for car dealerships. Today, Flai is the first AI-native CRM for automotive, built for both the sales floor and the service drive. Over the last year, @useflai has grown more than 20x, and we now work with over 20% of the top 50 dealer groups. Dealerships still run on software from another era. One of the industry's biggest vendors started before the car was even invented. Dealer teams are buried in disconnected tools, and their customers feel every gap. Flai changes that. On average, Flai generates ~$100K in additional monthly revenue for each dealership we work with. With this funding, we'll invest aggressively in product and engineering to build the system modern dealerships run on. I'm incredibly proud of our team and deeply grateful to our dealer partners for their trust in what we're building. The round was led by @Base10Partners, with participation from: @firstround @Toyota_Ventures @friedkingroup @ycombinator Findlay Automotive Group We're growing extremely fast and hiring across every team: engineering, product, marketing, sales, and customer success. If you want to help rebuild how cars are sold and serviced, check out our careers page or reach out to me directly!

we put on a broadway musical about accounts payable. slate called it "a glorified ad for a tech company." correct. it was also the most fun we've ever had as a company. the part i didn't expect was what happened after. a flood of messages from theater folks in new york saying it meant the world to them. billy porter told the crowd that industrials like this paid his rent for decades, until they disappeared in the early 2000s. for most of the last century, when a company had something to say, it hired composers, choreographers and actors. somewhere along the way we decided marketing should be cheap, measurable and forgettable. i hope more companies lose their minds a little. make something people feel.

Two weeks ago, @PlanetScale launched TIN. They benchmarked it against us, and it was very fast. So we spent those two weeks making ParadeDB faster without their tradeoffs. Today, we are faster than TIN. paradedb.com/blog/opening-a-…

Proximal builds infrastructure that enables AI to improve from real-world experience. In the past year, we have grown to more than $200M in annualized revenue helping frontier labs and enterprises improve coding agents. Now, we are expanding beyond software engineering. Recent progress in mathematics demonstrates what happens when models are trained in domains with massive amounts of public data and easy verifiability, making it easy to find weaknesses, generate training tasks, and iterate quickly. We build infrastructure that enables this feedback loop in other domains: we are excited about a world in which AI systems design targeted drugs, accelerate chip design, and rewrite legacy software that still runs hospitals, power grids, governments, and other critical infrastructure. Since starting, we have assembled a small team of researchers and engineers and built world-class infrastructure for post-training and synthetic data research to overcome the challenges of scaling manual data curation. Our team comes from Cursor, Google DeepMind, Meta Superintelligence, Prime Intellect, Citadel, and Jane Street. More than half are former founders. We’re fortunate to be backed by investors who share that vision, including @generalcatalyst who led our $15M Seed Round at a $300M valuation, as well as @chemistry, @svangel, @dvlamoen and individuals like @LiamFedus, @kevinweil, and @bernhardsson

Voice AI's biggest challenge is timing. Today we’re excited to introduce Tango, Simple's conversational awareness model. Tango is industry-leading on LiveKit's public end-of-turn benchmark, catching 96% of turn endings, responding in ~800ms, and barging in 5% of the time. For more: usesimple.ai/blog/tango-voic…

Introducing Polly 🦜 Polly ships this fall. The app behind Polly: 1. 2.1M lessons completed, 2.3M+ min of Spanish immersed (4 years of Spanish immersion) 2. 31 min avg session (Instagram's global avg is 35) 3. Power users doing 5.5+ hrs/day 4. 620K+ learners Get your own Polly. Link below.

This whole situation is very weird. We were customers of Pulley. It had: - A great functional product - Working GTM within their ICP (early-stage startups) - Better pricing than Carta with what I'd assume are healthy SaaS margins - $50M total raised from tier 1 VCs No one out there to buy their business? No acquihire? A cryptic message from the founder saying they "have no intention of riding off quietly into the night"? What really happened?