# Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls; plus, the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models

An episode of [TechCrunch Startup News](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1145974783), 16 Jul 2026, 11 min.

Audio: https://mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/AIRWV6261101156.mp3

Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies Also, Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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