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The Information Staff @ The Information 1 place · 04/29/2025 09:00 EDT

Financing the AI Revolution: The Highlights

Investing in artificial intelligence can be a tricky business. It’s the time of “peak ambiguity when it comes to AI,” said Hemant Taneja, CEO of venture capital firm General Catalyst. “None of us really know what the world’s going to look like in some ways.”

Investors face uncertainties about which startups endure, which piece of AI technology generates the most money and how much businesses are willing to spend on AI. Eight or nine large models are well capitalized, Taneja noted, including OpenAI’s GPT se

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