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start-up



VERB
initiate activity
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He previously served as chief executive at the tech start-up Character.AI, which developed a chatbot platform.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

The ChatGPT-maker said it was adding new measures after its AI agents bypassed safeguards and hacked the tech start-up Hugging Face.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Guest: Paul Ford, co-founder of the AI start-up Aboard, technology writer.

From Slate Sep. 11, 2026

That makes the story of Nothing, a start-up maker of phones and audio gear, all the more surprising.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

It was something like a start-up inside a start-up, and in a field in which I had no professional experience to speak of.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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