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I'm Imran, Jake, and this Wednesday Daily Crunch special starts right now.

Let's begin with the latest in startup business news all in about one minute with producer Dennis.

Imran, thank you.

And let's talk about impromptu.

This is an AI service that businesses can use to build AI applications.

Impromptu claims all a user has to do is tell the platform's AI chatbot what they want,

like a new classification app, and the tool will go ahead and build it. It also provides LLM tools to help users if they want to fine-tune any results

and lets companies add AI features to their own existing code bases.

The company said it had raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round.

An aircraft startup, Boom Supersonic, said Tuesday,

it will start selling a version of its turbine engine

as a stationary power plant

and that its first customer will be data center startup, Cruceau.

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