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- Yogurt launches as an open-source, on-device meeting assistant
Developer Eric introduced Yogurt on Hacker News as a free, MIT-licensed desktop app and an open-source alternative to Granola. Yogurt runs in the background without joining calls, using on-device models for meeting transcription, summaries, and chat; it supports whisper.cpp, Apple’s on-device SpeechAnalyzer where available, and llama.cpp. The developer says transcripts, recordings, and summaries remain on the user’s computer, while a local MCP server can expose notes to external AI services.
Hacker News 首页（100+ 分） · 🔥 0 - Granola launches cross-app AI dictation for Mac
TechCrunch reports that Granola, known for its meeting notetaker, launched a dictation feature that currently works on Mac. Users can press the Fn key and start speaking, and the tool cleans up and formats their speech and posts the final text. The feature works across all apps, so users can post notes, dictate prompts, and reply to emails and messages. Granola says dictation offers unlimited words for free, and the company said the feature will land on iOS and Windows soon.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - Stripe Atlas Adds Free ElevenLabs Access and Startup Founder Benefits
Stripe Atlas announced new benefits for Atlas founders that include 12 months of free ElevenLabs access, according to a repost from ElevenLabs on X. Other listed offers include Supabase and Cloudflare credits, Granola Business access, Ellis visa consultation and discounts, a Squarespace subscription discount, and a Customer.io Startup plan.
ElevenLabs (X) · 🔥 0 - Tunguz: AI infrastructure deals can close in two weeks, comp plans now set quarterly
Investor Tomasz Tunguz published takeaways from an Office Hours conversation with Bardia Shahali, who built sales teams at Fireworks AI and is now VP of Sales at Granola, framing AI as two markets — applications and infrastructure — with different sales-organization models. Shahali said an eight-figure deal can be closed in two weeks, and Tunguz notes that at Fireworks, whose customers are fast-growing AI-native companies, single deals can reach the tens of millions with a very fast sales cycle, though every inference provider chases the same accounts. Tunguz also reports that compensation plans are now set quarterly rather than annually because things change so much quarter to quarter, and that understaffed teams put less effort into outbound and expansion.
Tomasz Tunguz · 🔥 0 - Blacksmith raises $66M Series C led by Sequoia at $1B valuation
Blacksmith, which runs infrastructure companies use to build and test software including code written by AI, announced a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital that values it at $1 billion, as reported by TechCrunch and Fortune. The round came about two months after a $45 million Series B at a $550 million valuation, and roughly a year after a $10 million Series A at $60 million, bringing total funding to $125 million. The company, whose customers it lists as Mercury and Granola, also said annual recurring revenue has grown 17-fold and that it has run more than 90 million CI jobs; co-founder and CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said most companies are struggling to keep up with the volume of CI they need to run as more code is written by AI.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - Otter.ai raises $320M from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund
Otter.ai announced Tuesday that it raised $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, a vehicle that does not take equity and instead receives a share of the revenue it helps portfolio companies generate. The company said the money will go toward enterprise growth, go-to-market strategy, international expansion and product innovation, including enterprise agentic workflows. Otter says 40 million users have used its product to date, up from 25 million last year, and that teams at more than 86% of the Fortune 500 use it; it did not disclose monthly active users or churn, and its figures on meetings transcribed and $1.5 billion in customer ROI are self-reported. TechCrunch, citing PitchBook, said Otter had raised $50 million before this round and crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue last year.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - Office Hours to host Granola sales VP on AI-era sales teams
Office Hours will host Bardia Shahali, VP of Sales at Granola, on Tuesday, October 20 at 10 AM Pacific for a conversation on what the sales organization should look like in the AI era. According to the announcement, topics include why AI-era sales teams run smaller and how far quotas have moved from traditional SaaS benchmarks, how faster ramps and larger deals change hiring and compensation, and how to structure go-to-market when the product spreads on its own. The post includes a registration link and offers no further data or conclusions.
Tomasz Tunguz · 🔥 0 - Google launches AI Edge Foresight, an offline macOS notetaker
Google released Google AI Edge Foresight, an experimental macOS note-taking app that transcribes meetings and audio entirely offline using the on-device 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model, with a Gemma 4-powered assistant for chat. It offers a split-screen view for manual shorthand notes alongside AI-polished notes, and supports importing PDFs, Google Docs, Microsoft Office files, plain text, Markdown and web bookmarks as a knowledge base it can reference in real time. Google says your files, meeting audio and notes never leave your computer; the app is free and currently optimized only for Apple Silicon Macs.
TechCrunch AI · 🔥 0 - Meta brings its Muse AI agent to iPad as installs top 6.6 million
Meta announced on October 7 that its Muse assistant now has a dedicated iPad app, roughly a month after launching on iOS and Android on September 8. Installations have surpassed 6.6 million, according to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower. The update also adds small-business connectors such as Asana, Canva, Dropbox, Figma, QuickBooks, GitHub, Klaviyo, Zoom and Meta ad accounts, plus everyday connectors including Notion and Granola.
9to5Mac · 🔥 0 - Gamma 5 rebuilds presentation creation around a more capable AI agent
Gamma introduced Gamma 5, a rebuilt presentation platform featuring a redesigned editor, an expanded visual-style library and an AI agent that can research, outline slides, manipulate files and design pages from prompts or uploaded materials. The platform combines more than 20 AI models from providers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, alongside image generators and roughly 20 connectors for services such as Slack, Notion and Granola. AIbase also reported improvements to credits, content export and preview mode.
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