Sam Altman says OpenAI doesn't want government guarantees for data centers and expects to fund investments with revenues hitting “hundreds of billions by 2030”
company continues to lobby for financial support from the industry Victor Tangermann / Futurism : Trump Admin Says It's Not Bailing Out the AI Industry Regardless of How Hard It Cr...
Sources: Nvidia and AMD agreed to pay the US government 15% of H20 and MI308 chip revenue from China sales, as a condition of export licenses granted last week
Chipmakers agree to unusual arrangement to secure export licences from Trump administration — Nvidia and AMD have agreed …
Source: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; Windsurf was valued at $1.25B in a 2024 funding deal
they are the black hole of Startups People still don't get it Evil institution Deedy / @deedydas : @EMostaque Perhaps the time (say even 6mos) it takes to build and grow a Windsurf...
UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK's largest AI fundraise ever
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Source: Chamath Palihapitiya shelved plans to raise $1B for an early-stage investment fund, in part due to fundraising challenges
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A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development's pace will keep accelerating, and more
The “2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI” shows that the scientific community has no consensus on the risks and opportunities of AI …
A survey of 2,778 AI researchers: 38.4% support faster development and 34.7% support slower development, AI development's pace will keep accelerating, and more
The “2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI” shows that the scientific community has no consensus on the risks and opportunities of AI …
The Browser Company updates Arc with GPT 3.5 and Anthropic features: Ask ChatGPT, Tidy Tab Titles, Tidy Downloads, Five-Second Previews, and Ask on Page
At some point, if you're a company doing pretty much anything in the year 2023, you have to have an AI strategy. It's just business.
OpenAI acquires New York-based AI design studio Global Illumination, marking the company's first public acquisition; the terms of the deal weren't disclosed
OpenAI, the AI company behind the viral AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT, has acquired Global Illumination, a New York-based startup leveraging AI …
An in-depth look at GPU supply and demand, particularly Nvidia H100s, how a reliance on TSMC causes bottlenecks, H100 clients, Nvidia's allocations, and more
Introduction — As of August 2023, it seems AI might be bottlenecked by the supply of GPUs. … Is There Really A Bottleneck? Twitter: @nixcraft , @thestalwart , @mhdempsey , @whole...
a16z, Accel, Bain, Bessemer, Kleiner, and, sources say, Coatue and Tiger are increasingly buying startup shares on the secondary market, often at cheap prices
It's a bargain-hunter's dream, and for sellers it's sometimes the only good option left. — Secondary markets …
Mark Zuckerberg shared with employees Meta's plan to add generative AI text, image, and video tools to its products, such as Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram
At an all-hands, Mark Zuckerberg addressed Apple's Vision Pro, saying “that could be the vision of the future of computing” but “not the one that I want”
/ Zuckerberg directly addressed Apple's Vision Pro unveiling in a meeting with Meta employees today …
Paradigm appears to have removed crypto and Web3 mentions from its website's home page, as sources say the VC is expanding its focus to “frontier” tech like AI
- VC firm Paradigm is taking its crypto-only focus to include “frontier” technologies such as AI, two sources with knowledge of the situation told The Block.
Sources: Apple is working on emotion tracking tools, coming to its Health app in 2023, and an AI-powered health coaching subscription service codenamed Quartz
Apple Inc. is working on an artificial intelligence-powered health coaching service and new technology for tracking emotions …
Researchers: cybercriminals have started using ChatGPT to create hacking tools and AI-generated malware code, and are testing the tool for dating scam chatbots
some with little or no coding experience—were using it to write software and emails that could be used for espionage, ransomware, malicious spam, and other malicious tasks.” https:...
In a new paper, Meta researchers demonstrated a system that can reconstruct a user's plausible pose from only the Quest 2's sensors using reinforcement learning
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BlockFi CEO Zac Prince says the crypto lender “signed a term sheet with FTX to secure a $250M revolving credit facility”
- BlockFi secures $250 million revolving credit facility from crypto exchange FTX. — The crypto lender says the deal ‘bolsters our balance sheet and platform strength.’ Source: @b...
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B; one source says Discord is more likely to go public than sell itself
Microsoft Corp. is in talks to acquire Discord Inc., a video-game chat community, for more than $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.