18-year-old high school dropout raises $6.2M from Y Combinator
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Uzbekistan’s plans to establish an international financial center in Tashkent appear to be gaining momentum, with officials increasingly looking at...
Ethan Thornton dropped out of MIT at 19 with a bold vision: to disrupt the world of weaponry. Although his...
The history of Smartup dates back to 2009. In those days, business matters were mostly settled in chaikhanas (teahouses), data...
Uzbekistan is taking another significant step toward becoming a regional hub for artificial intelligence. Saudi Arabia’s DataVolt is developing a...
Chinese AI startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu AI) has officially announced the immediate release of GLM-5.2, a 753-billion parameter open-weights large...
Participants of IT Park Uzbekistan’s Venture Studio program can now access NVIDIA’s global startup ecosystem. The announcement was shared by...
When I first entered the world of business and investments, the concept of startups was hardly taken seriously in Uzbekistan....
Uzbekistan and Qatari company MBK Holding discussed potential cooperation in digital investments, startups, and artificial intelligence. The talks took place...
A few years ago, tech giants acquired startups primarily for their users. Facebook bought Instagram because of its rapidly growing...
In the startup ecosystem, founders are often idealized as the central figure — the idea generator, team leader, and the...
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