Don't miss these TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 Audience Choice winner is: Dana Louie, Hubspot's senior manager of corporate development, who will talk about M&A exits for startups at our upcoming event. I'll see you there! New Google AI models: Days after dropping new AI models, Google is back with more. This time, it's offering Gemma, a new family of lightweight open-weight models. The new Gemma 2B and 7B models are open for commercial and academic use. If you feel unable to catch up with all this AI progress, don't worry, I'm having issues keeping it all straight, too. Still, it's super cool to see so much happening in AI so quickly. Loora wants AI to teach us new languages: The market for learning new languages is massive, and its TAM will grow as long as there are people in the world. Loora wants to tap that market using AI to help power its learning service. Use of AI for helping people learn languages is not new, and could make more individualized instruction more affordable than actual human instructors. The startup recently closed a $12 million round. Amazon targets Indian fast-fashion market: The market for fashionable, low-cost clothing is so large that Amazon is wading into the Indian market for such goods, going up against "Flipkart, owned by Walmart, Reliance's Ajio and SoftBank-backed upstart Meesho," TechCrunch reports. Amazon intends to launch a new store called Bazaar that will feature goods that do not cost more than 600 Indian rupees, or about $7.20. How Zola is rethinking the wedding market: On a recent episode of TechCrunch's founder-focused podcast Found, Rebecca Szkutak and Dominic-Madori Davis spoke with Shan-Lyn Ma, the co-founder and CEO of wedding planning platform Zola, on how she built her business and how it handled the pandemic. Weddings, after all, are an in-person affair, so how Zola managed to stay afloat when its customer base was staying home makes for a fascinating listen. Samphire Neuroscience is taking on period pain: Chronic period pain is a common issue that many women face, and if over the counter painkillers don't work, many women are stuck suffering a dozen times each year. Samphire wants to shake up period care with a "wearable that applies a non-invasive, low electrical current type of brain stimulation." It works by targeting brain regions that are associated with pain perception and mood regulation, effectively blocking pain and more. Qloo wants to pick your next show: Qloo's name should give you a clue about what it is working on: "identifying the counterintuitive correlations humans miss" in entertainment, food and fashion. If AI models can understand hard-to-spot patterns in human taste, we might be able to better curate our own lives. The startup recently closed a $25 million Series C. | 
