AI Labs Keep Losing Their Star Researchers
Lilian Weng told Thinking Machines Lab last week that she was stepping away as a co-founder, saying the job had taken a toll on her health and she wanted a…
Sequoia’s $1 Billion Nuclear Bet
Valar Atomics raised $1 billion in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital, tripling its valuation to $6 billion from $2 billion, according to Axios. The startup builds modular…
Airtable’s Discounted Exit
Bending Spoons, the Italian app developer, agreed to buy Airtable for about $1.285 billion in cash, the companies said — its first acquisition since going public, and one of the…
Korea’s National GPU Build-Out
South Korea broke ground on a national AI computing center in Haenam this week, a roughly $1.7 billion project led by Samsung SDS that aims to have 15,000 GPUs running…
Amazon’s $3 Trillion Day
Amazon’s market value crossed $3 trillion for the first time on Aug 3, making it the fifth company to reach that level, as investors rewarded the company’s AI and cloud…
Anthropic’s $10 Billion Cloud Bet
Anthropic has agreed to spend $10 billion on computing power from Volta, a cloud startup so new that most of the industry has never heard of it, according to people…
The White House’s Voluntary AI Test
The four most powerful AI labs in the world — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta — will gather at the White House on Aug 4 for a closed-door meeting on…
DeepX’s Fourfold Valuation Jump
DeepX Co., a South Korean designer of AI chips, has signed the first agreements in a Series D round that values the company at about 3.14 trillion won ($2.2 billion),…
The Atlas Browser’s 10-Month Run
Users of OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas browser have about a week to export their bookmarks. OpenAI said Atlas will stop service on Aug 9, ending a product that arrived on macOS…
Apple’s Injunction Bid in the OpenAI Feud
Apple on Tuesday asked a federal court to stop OpenAI from building AI hardware on Apple technology, widening a trade-secrets fight that began with a handful of defecting engineers and…
