DeepSeek Shows Necessity Is The Mother of Invention
While the rest of us were recovering from heavy Christmas dinners and too much time with relatives, Chinese quant trading firm High-Flyer Capital Management dropped the latest update on Thursday to DeepSeek, its open-weight large language model. Senior researchers at American firms including ...
OpenAI Projections Imply Losses Tripling to $14 Billion in 2026
OpenAI’s newest investors have signed up for a bumpy and expensive ride. The company’s projections suggest it won’t turn a profit until 2029, when its revenue would hit $100 billion. Before it gets to that point, losses could rise as high as $14 billion in 2026, nearly triple this year’s ...
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The Under-the-Radar Investors That Wrote Massive Checks to …
Many of the investment firms that wrote some of the largest checks into Databricks’ record-smashing $10 billion fundraising haul announced Tuesday are among the tech world’s best known venture names, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital and Insight Partners.Then there’s an investment ...
AI Startup Voltron Data Switches CEOs, Lays Off 50% of Staff
Voltron Data, a startup whose software helps companies use artificial intelligence, has switched CEOs and laid off around half its staff of 120 employees after struggling to meet its revenue target, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Its software is supposed to speed up the time it takes data scientists to prepare data that would be used to train AI models.
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Jan 14, 2025 · Exclusive TikTok Prepares for Immediate Shut-Off in the U.S. on Sunday. TikTok plans to shut off its app for U.S. users on Sunday, the day a federal law will ban the app, unless the Supreme Court intervenes to block the ban, according to …
OpenAI Wows the Crowd as New Scaling Law Passes Its First Test
OpenAI’s next-generation reasoning model—called o3 for a funny reason—seriously impressed researchers and developers last week.Specifically, o3 and o3-mini (a smaller version of the model) scored impressively on a number of extremely difficult math and coding benchmarks, beating out competitors ...
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Google Org Chart & Company Structure Hierarchy - The Information
These are the top executives running Google. The organizational chart includes the 16 people who report directly to CEO Sundar Pichai (excluding direct reports at Google parent Alphabet) and reflects more than 50 executive changes under Pichai between May 2021 and November 2022.
OpenAI COO Says ChatGPT Passed 11 Million Paying Subscribers
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has more than 10 million paying subscribers and another 1 million subscribers that are part of higher-priced plans for business teams, COO Brad Lightcap recently told staff in a message, according to a person who viewed the message. …