Amazon's Zoox says users in San Francisco can now sign up for its Zoox Explorers program to take free rides in its robotaxis in select neighborhoods
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Waymo launches Waymo for Business, a service targeting employers, universities, and event organizers, available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix
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A look at some uncertainties surrounding Nvidia's proposed $100B investment in OpenAI, including concerns about the agreement's circular structure
Jensen Huang seeks to ensure US chipmaker stays at the heart of new tech — Tim Bradshaw in London, George Hammond in Abilene, Texas and Stephen Morris in San Francisco
A look at Tools for Humanity, cofounded by Sam Altman, as the company plans to deploy 7,500 iris-scanning Orbs across the US over the next 12 months
Once again, Sam Altman wants to show you the future. The CEO of OpenAI is standing on a sparse stage in San Francisco, preparing to reveal his next move to an attentive crowd.
Sources: OpenAI owned a 23% stake in io from a 2024 deal, so it is now paying ~$5B to fully acquire it; the OpenAI Startup Fund also invested in io in 2024
OpenAI buys Ive's “io” in San Francisco as Google holds their i/o conference down in mountain view right at this moment (also apple stock dropped ~2 percent this morning on the acquisition news) Ben N...
San Francisco grants Waymo a temporary permit to map SFO roads with employee-driven cars, as part of a phased approach targeting eventual commercial operations
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Anthropic raised another $4B from Amazon, will make AWS its primary training partner, and is working with Annapurna Labs to develop new Trainium accelerators
from chips to software. Mady Mills / @madisonmills22 : $AMZN to invest another $4B into Anthropic. Big news in the release: Anthropic is now naming AWS its primary training partner...and will use AWS ...
Sources: Sam Altman and other OpenAI executives pitched ChatGPT Enterprise to hundreds of Fortune 500 companies this month, including some Microsoft customers
OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has hosted hundreds of Fortune 500 company executives in San Francisco, New York and London …
How Google, Meta, Microsoft, and others balance developing specialized AI chips with their relationship with Nvidia, which has an estimated 70% of AI chip sales
In September, Amazon said it would invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, a San Francisco start-up working on artificial intelligence.
Microsoft says it will exclusively license OpenAI's GPT-3 language model, which will continue to be offered via the Azure-hosted API launched in June
Microsoft today announced that it will exclusively license GPT-3, one of the most powerful language understanding models in the world, from San Francisco-based AI startup OpenAI.