Stefano Ermon's Inception releases Mercury 2, a diffusion AI model designed to field questions from users significantly faster and more cheaply than its rivals
Stefano Ermon helped pioneer technology that's used by popular artificial intelligence services to generate images and videos.
A look at Inception Point AI, whose podcast network makes 3,000 AI-made podcasts per week and has 400K subs; an episode needs only 20 listeners to turn a profit
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Inception, which is building diffusion-based AI models for code and text, raised a $50M seed led by Menlo Ventures and releases a new Mercury coding model
With so much money flooding into AI startups, it's a good time to be an AI researcher with an idea to test out.
An interview with Inception Point AI CEO Jeanine Wright on her vow to continue mass-publishing thousands of episodes of AI podcasts per week despite backlash
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Rivian and VW finalize a software development joint venture; VW has invested $1B of its planned up to $5.8B by 2027 in the JV designed to be a 50-50 partnership
To celebrate its recent coupling, Volkswagen … João da Silva / BBC : VW launches $5.8bn tie-up with Tesla rival Rivian Edwin Lopez / Automotive Dive : Volkswagen, Rivian launch their $5.8B joint ventu...
Why Meta is well positioned to be AI's main beneficiary in the short, medium, and long term: generative AI, ads, infinite content, XR, “generative UI”, and more
Stratechery has benefited from a Meta cheat code since its inception: wait for investors to panic, the stock to drop …
Fal.ai, a developer-focused platform for media-generating AI models, raised a $9M seed and a $14M Series A from Kindred Ventures, a16z, First Round, and others
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Preliminary findings: the European Commission says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X could be fined up to 6% of its global revenue
https://ec.europa.eu/... … X: Thierry Breton / @thierrybreton : Back in the day, #BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information✔️🐦 Now with X, our preliminary view is that: ❌They deceive ...
DefiLlama: crypto startup funding has crossed $100B since 2014; The Block Research: Coinbase Ventures has made 443 investments or ~4% of all deals since 2017
- Investment picked up amid a rebound in the crypto market — Tokens from startups are a potential bright spot for exits X: @crypto and @ryanjamesweeks X: @crypto : Crypto startups have drawn in rough...
How Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters, who is obsessed with data, and Ted Sarandos, who relishes working with talent, together got the streaming service back on track
he once got into a debate about the weight of a “bit” —he asked a waiter to put wine in a blender to open it up And much... Adam Kovacevich / @adamkovac : Arguably, Netflix was first a logistics compa...