Techcrunch blog!: Getir bags FreshDirect to beef up its grocery delivery presence in the US

Wednesday, November 08, 2023

In today's top story, there is additional consolidation in the grocery delivery industry. Ingrid reports that Turkish company Getir acquired New York–based FreshDirect. Here’s the big picture.

Meanwhile, Mark has your look at what is being called the world's largest aircraft since the Hindenburg.

And Kate has a look at Samsung's answer to ChatGPT. Meet Samsung Gauss, a large language model that can generate text, code and images.

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More Meta: We have a trio of Meta stories for you. First, the social media giant joins with Hugging Face to launch a startup accelerator that can spur adoption of open source AI models. Then, a human rights group is pressing Meta to compensate war victims amid claims Facebook inflamed the Tigray conflict. And finally, Meta will start requiring disclosures for political ads manipulated with AI.

No more Cruise-ing for now: Cruise recalls its entire fleet after one of its robotaxis ran over and dragged a pedestrian. Read more.

The first cut is the deepest: Two India-based startups saw their valuations slashed. Get the scoop.

For those who don't want to be seen: Instagram is finally testing a feature to let you turn off read receipts for direct messages. Here's more.

Closing the door: Proptech startup Zeus Living, which was backed by Airbnb, reportedly shuts down. Here's what happened.

What Prime can get you: Prime members can now get a One Medical membership for $9 per month. Learn about this new feature.

Become a Lego master: We have your look at the eight Lego sets you didn't know you needed in 2023. See the list.

More productive: Code-generating AI platform Tabnine nabs $25 million investment. Read more.

An app to build all other apps: Sutro introduces AI-powered app creation with no coding required. Here's how.

Take a bite out of this: Apple reportedly will make some App Store policy changes in order to comply with the European Union's Digital Market Act. Here's what that might include.

Feeling bookish: Spotify is releasing some 15 hours of monthly audiobook listening to Premium subscribers in the U.S. Learn more.

Even more for your Wednesday:

Hugging Face has a two-person team developing ChatGPT-like AI models

Why Flip AI built a custom large language model to run its observability platform

GitHub teases Copilot enterprise plan that lets companies customize for their codebase

Google's AI-powered search experience expands globally to 120+ countries and territories

Fakespot Chat, Mozilla's first LLM, lets online shoppers research products via an AI chatbot