TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

innovation economy at a vastly disproportionate rate. Governments could model these efforts on leading global public/private organizations that have supported diaspora entrepreneurs in many other ways. As a result, many of them emigrate to the U.S. Immigrants contribute to the success of the U.S. Next are VC firms looking for founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

fulfillment rate over the past 12 months. It entered the Peruvian market late last year after acquiring local e-grocer Freshmart and has since announced the opening of its first physical store in Lima to offer a hybrid grocery model. Mainly grocery stores are focusing on infrastructure, and Jüsto is pursuing that also.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

The potential of AI tools like ChatGPT creates a similar dilemma — should companies license large language models without modifications, or customize them and pay much higher usage rates? Walter Thompson Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+ @yourprotagonist When it comes to large language models, should you build or buy?

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

In particular, the company will be focusing on acquiring new customers and product listings as well as expanding to other countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Chile “through a combination of M&A and greenfield operations,” according to Dagnoni. So what exactly has driven so much growth for Mercado Bitcoin?

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APRIL 7, 2023

As part of Google's Crisis Response and our efforts to address the climate crisis , we are using machine learning (ML) models for Flood Forecasting to alert people in areas that are impacted before disaster strikes. Frederik Kratzert (Research Scientist at Google) provided an overview of the Caravan project (below).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Payflow says the model has won it friends in works councils and labor unions. ” Among users it notes a high uptake — with a 40% download rate on average, and rates as high as 90% for some of its clients — which it claims is 5-10x higher than other on-demand salary platforms and other social benefits. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

This is important because as Alex noted last year, similar to other players in the API-space, Belvo charges for each API call that its customers use (in this sense, it has a model similar to Twilio’s). . Image Credits: Co-founders and co-CEOs Oriol Tintore and Pablo Viguera / Belvo. Belvo currently operates in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

is getting older and the birth rate is declining; as such, we will increasingly need to look to immigration to keep our economy going. For example, he said companies that have just-in-time delivery models are very brittle and prone to break down compared to those that have built-in slack into their system. The population in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Founded in mid-2019, Mudafy operates with a typical digital brokerage model — aiming to make it easier for people to buy and sell their homes and serve as a “one-stop shop” in the process. Today, he says Mudafy is operating at a run rate of “over 2x” of what it did in 2021. When it sells a property, it charges a fee.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Uils analyzes their history using a machine learning model to determine whether they qualify for a “micro” or consumer loan, considering various factors. The interest rates range from 0% for the micro loans (for a weekly subscription of $1 to $2) to 145% for the consumer loans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

One of its early customers is Babytuto , a parent and baby product retailer in Chile that initially worked with the company for Cyber Monday. Topsort has gained most of its customers in the past four months, and some of them are already bringing in $1 million to $15 billion in gross merchandise value.

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