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How Dario Amodei Spread Anthropic’s Religion and Stirred Up Silicon Valley theinformation.com
Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Stagger Release of New Model Over Security Concerns theinformation.com
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AI Agenda Live SF 2026 theinformation.com
Trajectory, Founded by Ex-Google and Apple Researchers, Raises Funding From Sequoia in Back-to-Back Round theinformation.com
Applied Compute in Talks to Double Valuation to $3 Billion on Open-Source Demand theinformation.com
Canva Hits AI Speedbump on Costs, ChatGPT Competition theinformation.com
OpenAI Discovers New Way to Cut Inference Costs in Half theinformation.com
Why Open-Source Models Are Benefitting From The White House Clampdown theinformation.com
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@leomschwartz @amir more here: https://t.co/yLQvjbFoHY
The CEO of popular AI assistant Instinct has told investors he’s looking to raise $1b in new funding. That could imply a $10b valuation, 4xing its valuation from last month. https://t.co/t9voBceMTD
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- Personal AI app Instinct is reportedly in talks for a fresh round less than a month after closing a $250 million Series B at a $2.5 billion valuation.
- The Information links the follow-on talks to a compute capacity constraint, with the app still admitting users by invite-only waitlist.
- Index Ventures and Benchmark co-led the August round, taking total funding to about $350 million as the valuation moved from $50 million in months.
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ICYMI: @coryweinberg and I reported last night that OpenAI's former head of Sora, Bill Peebles, is teaming up with Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg and investor Sujay Jaswa to create a new startup that will develop AI models for Hollywood. https://t.co/PdbMoyIgUY
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If you thought 2 tranches was crazy, wait till you hear about 3 tranches! That was the case for Gimlet Labs' latest fundraise, which saw money go in at $2.5b, $3b and a "significantly higher" price despite the headline price being $3b. w/ @_pheebini: https://t.co/fhXhCugbg3
Thrilled for our AI Agenda Live conference later this month! Come to see my colleagues and I ask our burning questions to the researchers, execs and founders shaping the field, including Google DeepMind's Koray Kavukcuoglu and OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux https://t.co/6O7Qj9JFpg
Trajectory, which helps businesses customize open source models for their needs, has raised new funding from Sequoia at a $300m valuation just two months after announcing its last round. More on the startup in this morn's AI Agenda: https://t.co/fVSickvDUT
New w/ @julia_hornstein: Applied Compute is raising a new round at a ~$3B valuation, on the backs of growing interest in open-source and cheaper AI. Elad Gil is in talks to lead the round. The company recently was generating ~$50m annualized rev: https://t.co/yPlKLoHA2I
2x collab w/ @coryweinberg today! Canva execs noticed in recent months that an increasing number of users have turned to ChatGPT instead of Canva to generate designs. That, plus growing AI costs and a seasonal dropoff in users, has worried execs. https://t.co/51y4jqTTr1
More on the optimization + what it could mean for OpenAI's gross margins or usage limits here: https://t.co/hg92hVzX9q
In this morning's AI Agenda, I get into why the White House clampdown on frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic could prove beneficial for open-source AI. https://t.co/PSbEwgAVHl
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