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TNB Tech Minute: Nvidia-Backed AI Startup Triples Valuation to $19 Billion

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Chinese EV makers post higher sales. And Doordash posts record revenue. Alex Ossola hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.8

to prevent ransomware and AI attacks that target business.

0:11.7

Z-scaler Zero Trust plus AI. Learn more at Z-scaler

0:16.0

dot com slash Zero-Trust AI. Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Wednesday May 1st. I'm Alex Osola for the Wall Street Journal.

0:27.0

We exclusively report that AI startup CoreWeave nearly tripled its valuation to $19 billion in a new funding round.

0:34.6

The New Jersey-based company rins out chips housed in data centers across the U.S. that customers

0:39.2

use to create and deploy AI systems.

0:42.1

It's part of a new crop of companies offering cloud computing tailored for

0:45.2

AI, setting it apart from big tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, which offer a wider

0:50.2

range of cloud services. A host of Chinese electric vehicle makers

0:54.8

posted higher sales and deliveries in April.

0:57.5

B.Y.D, the world's largest maker of EVs, said that its total sales jumped

1:01.9

49% from a year earlier to 313,245 vehicles for the month.

1:07.0

That was 3.6% higher than March sales.

1:10.0

Nios said deliveries of its electric cars more than doubled from a year earlier to 15,620

1:16.2

vehicles.

1:17.2

Delivers of XPang's EVs, meanwhile, rose 33% from a year earlier.

1:21.9

Chinese smartphone specialist,

1:23.3

Shoumi, reported 7,058 deliveries

1:26.2

in its first month of selling EVs.

1:28.5

The numbers offer a sign of rebounding demand

1:30.7

amid continuing price wars and government efforts to spur consumption in the world's largest EV market.

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