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September is on track for six venture-backed tech listings, the most since November 2021. The rising number of IPOs means venture funds can start returning more cash to the limited partners that back them, relieving one of the strains that had held back VC fundraising over the last few years.
Nearly all of September’s listings are from companies more than 10 years old. These include Netskope, which plans to price its IPO late Wednesday, giving an eventual windfall to investors Lightspeed Venture Partners,
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was upset. Last fall, one of his technical teams told large Salesforce customers that using Agentforce, the software firm’s new artificial intelligence for automating customer service and other functions, would require extensive planning. The product information the Salesforce team shared with those customers acknowledged the complexity of making the AI perform well. That message contradicted Benioff, a charismatic salesman who had been telling customers that using... Read more ›
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As OpenAI irons out new terms of a partnership with Microsoft, it has told some shareholders that the percentage of revenue it will hand over to Microsoft will drop considerably in the coming years. As part of their original partnership agreement, Microsoft is entitled to 20% of the startup’s revenue through 2030. But OpenAI has projected to share roughly 8% of its revenue with commercial partners—namely, Microsoft—by the end of... Read more ›
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Nvidia is stepping back from its nascent cloud computing business, which had put it in quasi-competition with Amazon Web Services. It has lessened its efforts to attract businesses to the cloud service, dubbed DGX Cloud, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation. Instead, Nvidia plans to primarily use the service, which consists of servers powered by its AI chips, for its own researchers, this person said. Employees use... Read more ›
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Perplexity, which runs an artificial intelligence-powered search engine, has secured commitments from investors for $200 million in new funding at a $20 billion valuation, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The new capital comes less than two months after the three-year-old ... Read more ›
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On paper, Informatica, a Redwood City-based cloud software firm with 5,000 white collar employees, is exactly the type of company that should be gung-ho to pay up and buy Office 365 Copilot, the version of Microsoft’s flagship software that comes with artificial intelligence features. And more than a year ago, Informatica did test out Office 365 Copilot for a handful of its employees, according to CIO Graeme Thompson. But Thompson... Read more ›
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Physical Intelligence, a startup developing large artificial intelligence models to power robots, is in talks with investors to raise additional venture capital at a valuation of about $5 billion, according to two people who have recently spoken to the company. A financing at that valuation would more than double the price investors awarded the San Francisco startup in November. The company, founded in early 2024, is one of several startups... Read more ›
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Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group and Baidu have begun using their own internally designed chips to train their artificial intelligence models, partly replacing AI chips made by Nvidia, according to four people with direct knowledge of the moves. The move is the latest sign that a decoupling of Chinese AI development from the Western semiconductor ecosystem is underway. Until recently Chinese firms were entirely dependent on Nvidia chips for most... Read more ›
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Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and advertising, which would put Perplexity’s revenue growth on more sustainable footing, have moved much more slowly. Nearly a year after the company began selling ad space and letting users buy... Read more ›
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We got big news this afternoon from the folks at OpenAI and Microsoft: They are close to a peace deal. Yes, after nearly a year of talks over changes to their partnership, the companies announced they had signed a “non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of our partnership.” Contractual terms now have to be finalized. Hmmm. That sounds like a deal you have when you don’t really have... Read more ›
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Figure Technology, the blockchain-based lender co-founded by former SoFi CEO Mike Cagney, jumped 44% in its opening trade after raising $787.5 million in an initial public offering. Figure, listed on Nasdaq under the ticker FIGR, started trading Thursday at $36 per share, above its IPO price of ... Read more ›
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