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TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is accelerating efforts to make its own artificial intelligence chips as it looks for an edge over its rivals in China’s AI chatbot market.
ByteDance is aiming for mass production of two semiconductors it has designed by 2026, in collaboration with chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. Production of the chips could reduce ByteDance’s dependence on costly Nvidia chips for developing and operating AI.
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Andy Rubin, creator of Android and a former Google executive, has launched a new startup focused on humanoid robots, said a person with direct knowledge of the venture. His venture is the latest addition to the red-hot and frothy humanoid space, crowded with companies ranging from Tesla to startups such as Figure AI. Rubin’s startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more ›
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Chinese companies are launching open-source AI models built to power coding assistants as cheaper alternatives to those available from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Late last month, Shanghai-based AI startup MiniMax launched M2, a new open-source large language model developed primarily for coding and AI agents. In a post on X, MiniMax noted that the price of M2 is just 8% of that of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model. (M2 costs $1.20... Read more ›
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Apple is delaying the release of the second-generation iPhone Air to work on a redesign of the device and make it more appealing to consumers, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The redesign could include a second camera lens, an attempt to address one of consumers’ main ... Read more ›
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Two longtime vehicle manufacturing leaders at Tesla said separately on Sunday that they’re leaving the company. One of the executives, Siddhant Awasthi, worked as program manager for Cybertruck and oversaw the production ramp of the electric truck. Awasthi, an eight year Tesla veteran, also ... Read more ›
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When Kara Nortman was looking to start a women’s professional soccer team in Los Angeles, she and her co-founders—actress Natalie Portman and entrepreneur Julie Uhrman—took meetings with sports experts in their hometown. The advice they received? It would be unwise to enter a market crowded by the MLB’s Dodgers, the NBA’s Lakers and a half-dozen other franchises. “We talked to everyone who knew sports,” Nortman told me this week, “and... Read more ›
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Investors are rushing to back a new generation of research-focused AI startups. In just over a month, they’ve made or discussed $2.5 billion of investments into five of these startups, called neolabs, despite the high costs and risk of failure. The neolab startups’ founders say they hope to exploit new approaches to developing AI models and research they say major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic may have overlooked. Read more ›
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Anthropic plans to invest $50 billion building its own data centers, the first time it has done so, in Texas and New York, the AI startup announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Anthropic said it would partner with London-based cloud startup Fluidstack on the data centers. Anthropic said that the ... Read more ›
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