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Social Capital, the investment firm led by venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, tried to sell stakes in hundreds of young companies in June of this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The stakes for sale were worth $312 million in total based on the valuations at which the companies last raised money, the people said.
It’s not clear what prompted Social Capital to want to sell its stakes in the 258 companies, and it couldn’t be learned whether the firm completed the sales. Investment fi
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Gadi Hutt, a director of product and customer engineering in Amazon’s server-chip design unit, Annapurna Labs, has left the company, according to two people with direct knowledge of the move. Hutt was an early employee at Annapurna Labs, the Israeli chip startup Amazon acquired in 2015 for $350 ... Read more ›
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OpenAI has surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue from its ChatGPT ads business, six weeks after the pilot was announced, according to a spokesperson. That revenue has been generated from the less than 20% of U.S.-based ChatGPT Free and Go users who are shown ads on a daily basis today, ... Read more ›
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