At this point, it's becoming easier to say which AI startups Mark Zuckerberg hasn't looked at acquiring. In addition to Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence (SSI), sources tell me the Meta CEO recently discussed buying ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab and Perp
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.
The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.
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Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading A
Charles Hudson had just closed his fifth fund several months ago – $66 million for Precursor Ventures – when one of his limited partners asked him to run an exercise. What would have happened, the LP wondered, if Hudson had sold all his portfolio companies at Series A? What about
Attacker rained down the equivalent of 9,300 full-length HD movies in just 45 seconds.
Its platform needs error correction that works with different hardware.
Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app that helps students manage their school schedules and share them with others.
A handful of early stage micromobility startups out of Europe that are filling the gaps in a maturing ecosystem.
Removable transparent films apply digital restorations directly to damaged artwork.
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Some startups accrued value at lightning speed this week, and we got confirmation that defense tech is red hot.
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active user
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Karandeep Anand comes to Character.AI with experience running advertising products that reached billions of users on Meta's apps.
Rare cases like this have led to changes in organ screening protocols.
Pac-Man Superfast turns the arcade classic into a high-octane reflex test.