Sources: Applied Compute, a pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by three former OpenAI staffers, raised $20M at a $100M valuation led by Benchmark
The pre-launch reinforcement learning startup founded by Rhythm Garg, Linden Li and Yash Patil, is now valued at $100 million … Bluesky: @alexrkonrad . X: @alexrkonrad . LinkedIn: Alex Konrad Bluesky:...
Gili Raanan's VC firm Cyberstarts has helped launch successful startups like Wiz, but faces ethical questions about an industry executive profit-sharing program
Forbes : X: @nicoleperlroth , @alexrkonrad , @alexrkonrad , @alexrkonrad , and @alexrkonrad . LinkedIn: Robert Hansen X: Nicole Perlroth / @nicoleperlroth : This @Forbes piece on Cyberstarts sheds li...
Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July
tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it. a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a return on their signi...
Sources and filings: Sam Altman's net worth is ~$1B, driven by investments in Reddit, Stripe, Helion, YC startups, and others, despite having no OpenAI equity
CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found. X: @alexrkonrad , @alexrkonrad , @n_s...
Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft; a source says investors in Inflection AI, which has raised more than $1.5B, will be made whole
Microsoft Hires DeepMind Co-founder Mustafa Suleyman from Inflection to Run Consumer AI Devesh Beri / MSPoweruser : Inflection AI plans to license its technology to Microsoft after CEO moves to the la...
A profile of Ryan Breslow, the founder of Bolt, whose $355M Series E in 2022 set off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with early backer Activant
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin , @friedmandave , @lukejohnsonrcp , @leomschwartz , @sarahnemerson , @dannygroner , and @alexrkonrad X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Ryan Breslow was dancing barefoot in a ge...
Interviews with Garry Tan, Paul Graham, YC partners, and others about Tan reshaping YC in a “return to roots”, as some founders complain about politicization
Former venture capitalist Garry Tan has slashed programs and turned up the mics in a bid to restore … X: @johnpaczkowski , @madhuyalamarthi , @yuris , and @n_sportelli LinkedIn: Alex Konrad and Alex K...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that co-founder Ilya Sutskever won't be a board member, but that the company is “discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI”
it's definitely a coincidence but still funny) https://openai.com/... @officiallogank : So glad to have @sama @gdb and @miramurati driving @OpenAI once again. Now that this is behind us, we are back t...
Satya Nadella says “it's very clear that something has to change around the governance” of OpenAI no matter where Sam Altman ends up
These are fundamentally incompatible and it was bound to lead to hard tradeoffs eventually. … X: Emily Chang / @emilychangtv : The more I watch this interview - the wilder this story seems. Satya insi...
Flexport founder Ryan Petersen joins Founders Fund as a partner; Petersen, who stepped down as CEO in March 2023, will continue as Flexport's executive chairman
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