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Madrona just announced its biggest fund ever, closing on $770M as other venture funds grow smaller
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end
1 day ago · Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to up its capital expenditures in 2025 as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the AI space.
Meta's Yann LeCun predicts 'new paradigm of AI ... - TechCrunch
2 days ago · Meta itself is doing some research work in the robotics realm, but so is the AI darling of the moment, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI.Earlier this month, new job listings emerged detailing a new OpenAI ...
Method is helping fintech companies like SoFi build repayment ...
2 days ago · Method competes with big vendors like Plaid, MX, Spinwheel, and Dwolla. But many of these rely on systems that require users to enter their financial account credentials, Shah said, which he ...
This Week in AI: More capable AI is coming, but will its benefits be ...
Jan 8, 2025 · The result won’t be a better world, but more of the same inequality. And if that’s AI’s legacy, it’ll be a deeply depressing one. News
Elon Musk agrees that we’ve exhausted AI training data
Jan 8, 2025 · Musk, who owns AI company xAI, echoed themes former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever touched on at NeurIPS, the machine learning conference, during an address in December. Sutskever, who said ...
Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple …
Dec 10, 2024 · Google on Monday announced Willow, its latest, greatest quantum computing chip. The speed and reliability performance claims Google’s made about this chip were newsworthy in themselves, but what ...
The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024 | TechCrunch
Dec 13, 2024 · A-B. Abridge. HQ location: Pittsburgh Funding raised to date (per PitchBook): $464 million Examples of VC backers: Union Square Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, IVP What the startup does: Uses AI to ...
This Week in AI: AI is rapidly being commoditized | TechCrunch
Aug 28, 2024 · Generative AI vendors are burning through cash — fast. OpenAI is said to be on track to lose $5 billion this year, while rival Anthropic projects that it will be over $2.7 billion in the hole by ...