Topic: pricing model
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Get Paid to Chat: Rent a Cyber Friend at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Francesco Vitali initially doubted the idea of paying for conversation but trusted his partner's vision, leading to the creation of Rent a Cyber Friend, a video chat platform where users pay per minute for verified companions or specialized discussions. The platform has grown organically to three...
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Meet Mistral OCR 3: Advanced Text Recognition
Mistral OCR 3 is a highly accurate optical character recognition model that significantly outperforms its predecessor and competitors, accessible via API and a user-friendly interface. It excels at understanding document structure, supporting enriched HTML-based table reconstruction, and is offer...
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Nex Playground Review: Why My Kids Laughed and Cried
The Nex Playground is a controller-free gaming console that uses a single camera to track body movements, enabling active, accessible play that immediately engages children and families. However, the system suffers from significant technical limitations, including frequent tracking errors due to ...
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Oboe Secures $16M From a16z for AI Course Builder
A learning tech startup founded by ex-Spotify executives raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, just three months after launch, to accelerate global growth. Its AI platform instantly creates personalized, structured courses from a user's stated learning goal, focusing ...
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Lovable Set to Raise $150M at $2B Valuation
Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, is in advanced talks to raise $150 million at a $2 billion valuation, following rapid growth and a $15 million pre-Series A round earlier this year. The company's platform converts text prompts into functional web apps, with a $25/month pricing model, and has achiev...
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Runware Secures $50M to Simplify AI Image & Video Creation for Devs
Runware secured $50 million in Series A funding to simplify real-time AI media creation for developers, with its platform already powering over 5 billion creations for more than 100,000 users. The company differentiates itself with a unified API and custom AI inference infrastructure, offering co...
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Towerborne Launches February 26 with Major Content Update
Towerborne, a cooperative action RPG brawler, launches fully on February 26, 2026, as a premium title available on multiple platforms including Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and Xbox Game Pass. The game has shifted from a free-to-play, always-online model to a buy-once premium game, offering both offlin...
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Guild Wars Reforged: Free for Veterans, $20 for New Players
Guild Wars Reforged is a modernized version of the 2005 MMORPG, launching on December 3rd as a free update for existing owners and a $20 one-time purchase for new players, maintaining its no-subscription model. The update includes comprehensive visual and technical improvements such as HD graphic...
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Gusto Acquires Guideline for $600M, Will Divest Rival Customers
Gusto has acquired Guideline for approximately $600 million, integrating its 401(k) services for small and medium businesses into Gusto's platform to expand its HR and payroll offerings. Guideline, founded by TaskRabbit co-founder Kevin Busque, simplifies retirement plan administration with a fix...
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Astra's Offensive-Grade Scanner Cuts Noise, Proves Risk
Traditional quarterly cloud security scans are insufficient for rapidly changing environments, leading to undetected critical misconfigurations that are a primary cause of breaches. A new scanner addresses this by using an offensive-grade validation engine to actively test and confirm exploitable...
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Create AI Images with Mixup: The Mad Libs-Style Photo App
Mixup is a new iOS app that uses a "recipe" system to generate AI images from user inputs like photos, text, or sketches, offering customizable prompts for creative visual transformations. The app enhances predictability and shareability by allowing users to reuse prompts from a public feed and c...
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Captions Rebrands as Mirage, Pivots to AI Video Research
The video platform Captions has rebranded as Mirage, shifting its focus to advanced AI research for short-form video and introducing a tool called Mirage Studio for brands to create AI-generated ads without traditional production resources. Mirage Studio allows businesses to produce videos using ...
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AI Code Review Startup CodeRabbit Hits $550M Valuation After $60M Raise
Harjot Gill founded CodeRabbit to address the increased code review bottlenecks caused by the rise of AI-generated code, which often contains bugs. CodeRabbit has achieved rapid growth with 20% monthly expansion, over $15 million in annual recurring revenue, and recently secured $60 million in Se...
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