Perplexity offers to acquire Chrome for $34.5B, significantly more than Perplexity's estimated $18B valuation, and says large VC funds agreed to back the deal
Perplexity AI just made a $34.5b unsolicited offer for Google's Chrome browser … Mashable : Google received a ‘longshot’ $34 billion offer for Chrome from a surprising source Adam ...
Perplexity's unsolicited $34.5B bid for Chrome with claimed VC backing is clearly a marketing stunt and maybe a signal to the judge in Google's antitrust case
Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome — With its unsolicited bid for Google's browser …
Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022
E-commerce startup OpenStore is slashing its valuation from nearly $1 billion to just $50 million in a new round of funding … Bluesky: @kevinmarks.com . X: @pitdesi and @sri_batchu...
Sources: Ramp is in talks to raise $350M led by Iconiq at a ~$21B valuation, after raising $200M at a $16B valuation in June
The Information : X: @buccocapital and @sri_batchu X: @buccocapital : At first my take was gonna be that Ramp raising at $16B in June and then $21B a month later was ridiculous......
An interview with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore, who created Goody-2, a joke AI chatbot that refuses every query to “prioritize safety and the prevention of harm”
Interview with Mike Lacher and Brian Moore, creators of AI chatbot Goody-2, which was created as a joke and refuses to answer every query to prioritize safety
Self-righteous chatbot Goody-2 was built to take AI guardrails to an illogical extreme. The artists behind the project say there's a serious point behind the gag.