# TC's Julie Bort can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee; plus, Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award

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Podcast: [TechCrunch Startup News](https://stenobird.com/podcast/techcrunch-startup-news)
Published: 2026-04-09T09:30:00+00:00
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Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it's gaining popularity with OpenClaw users. Also, Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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