Google releases a free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions, chat via text, voice, or their camera, and use the conversational mode Gemini Live
Your AI assistant from Google — iPhone Screenshots Kenrick Cai / Reuters : Google brings AI voice assistant Gemini Live to iPhone The Mirror : Google's Gemini AI gets dedicated app on iPhone in UK f...
Kyle Vogt, who resigned as Cruise CEO six months ago, raised $150M for The Bot Company, a household robot startup, sources say at a $550M post-money valuation
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OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo
4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC : Sam Altman's back. ...
Klaviyo closes up 9.2% in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the Shopify-backed e-commerce marketing company at $9.9B on a fully diluted basis
but Important—IPO — We tend to lionize founders who start companies with the splashiest … Fortune : A day after a blockbuster debut, Instacart's shares go in reverse and briefly sink below their IPO...
Sources: EvolutionaryScale, founded by members of Meta's recently axed protein-folding team to build LLMs for biology, raised a $40M+ seed at a $200M valuation
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin and @kenrickcai X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Meta shuttered it's AI project focused on protein-folding in April. Now that team have raised $40m to build new biological LLM...
Sources: EvolutionaryScale, founded by members of Meta's recently axed protein-folding team to build LLMs for biology, raised a $40M+ seed at a $200M valuation
Forbes : X: @_iainmartin and @kenrickcai X: Iain Martin / @_iainmartin : Meta shuttered it's AI project focused on protein-folding in April. Now that team have raised $40m to build new biological LLM...
Interviews, pitch decks, and documents suggest that the recent success of Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque has been bolstered by exaggeration and dubious claims
Stability AI became a $1 billion company with the help of a viral AI text-to-image generator and — per interviews with more than 30 people … LinkedIn: Jon Lam . Bluesky: @carnage4life.bsky.social . Tw...
A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems
hundreds of thousands of them — powering AI. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @ycombinator : “There's two things I deeply believe. One, AI is a huge force for good, and it needs to b...
Deel, which offers HR software for hiring a remote global workforce, says it hit $295M ARR this month and confirms it raised $50M in Q2 2022 at a $12B valuation
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Sources: low-code app development tool startup OutSystems raised $228.4M in October 2022 at a $4.3B valuation, 55% lower than February 2021's $9.5B valuation
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