AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict
AWS has an ingrained culture of handling coopetition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.
Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’
Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he’s working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.
I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee
Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, open source LLM. And it’s gaining popularity with OpenClaw users.
Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation
Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion in six months.
Uber is the latest to be won over by Amazon’s AI chips
Uber is expanding its AWS contract to run more of its ride-sharing features on Amazon’s chips. This is a thumb-of-the nose at Oracle and Google.
OpenAI alums have been quietly investing from a new, potentially $100M fund
Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.
The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse
Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai, by taking the customers’s tool and passing it off as its own.
Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon
Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.
Popular AI gateway startup LiteLLM ditches controversial startup Delve
LiteLLM had obtained two security compliance certifications via Delve and fell victim to some horrific credential-stealing malware last week.
Former Coatue partner raises huge $65M seed for enterprise AI agent startup
A few things turned investors’ heads and drew them to participate in such a big round out of the gate.