2025-02-12
This is a doozy 👇🏼 AI chip startup Groq secured a $1.5 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia. The commitment was announced at Saudi's LEAP summit.
Reuters
Groq says Saudi Arabia has committed $1.5B over the course of 2025, to expand the delivery of the US startup's AI inference chips for LLMs to the country
U.S. semiconductor startup Groq said on Monday it has secured a $1.5 billion commitment from Saudi Arabia to expand the delivery of its advanced AI chips to the country.
2024-08-04
Meta learned from the OpenAI - Scarlet Johansson debacle — and in my POV, taking a smart approach to Hollywood voice actors
Bloomberg
Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms
- Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors' fears of AI
2024-08-03
Meta learned from the OpenAI - Scarlet Johansson debacle — and in my POV, taking a smart approach to Hollywood voice actors
Bloomberg
Sources: Meta is offering Hollywood celebrities like Judi Dench millions of dollars for the right to use their voices for AI projects; SAG-AFTRA agreed to terms
- Judi Dench, Awkwafina are among the celebrities holding talks — Some terms sought by Meta trigger actors' fears of AI
2024-07-17
Interesting from @axios re: JD Vance “Vance belongs to the group of conservatives who are sympathetic to the idea that Big Tech companies should be broken up.” How will this affect AI developments?
TechCrunch
On their podcast, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz explain why they are backing Trump, say Trump is pro-crypto, Biden's overregulation harms startups, and more
Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, says he's been a Democrat most of his life.
Interesting from @axios re: JD Vance “Vance belongs to the group of conservatives who are sympathetic to the idea that Big Tech companies should be broken up.” How will this affect AI developments?
The Information
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz say Trump is the right choice for “Little Tech”; sources say they plan to make large donations to PACs supporting his campaign
Venture capital bigwigs Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have told staff at Andreessen Horowitz that they plan …
2022-08-02
@martyswant Their MAU numbers are definitely challenging...but I'm bullish on their new strategy to diversify revenue through commerce, video, content creation and augmented reality.
CNBC
Pinterest reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $666M, vs $667M est., global MAUs down 5% YoY to 433M, vs 431M est., and a net loss of $43M; stock jumps 20%+
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Source: Pinterest .