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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Here’s a number that might surprise you: In the first six months of the year, California Public Employees’ Retirement System committed about $4.5 billion to venture capital funds, according to public filings. That’s almost 15% of the total capital raised by U.S. VC firms in the same period, and a staggering increase over Calpers’ 2022 commitments to VC funds, which totaled about $1.5 billion.As most LPs take a step back... Read more ›
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TikTok is preparing a slew of initiatives to defuse growing complaints that antisemitism and other hate speech has proliferated in videos about the Hamas-Israel war. The ByteDance-owned app is planning a social media campaign this month called “Swipe Out Hate” that will involve creators to spread its message, according to a person with knowledge of its plans. It is also working to open up its research application programming interface, a... Read more ›
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After months of build-up, developers were excited to finally see the long-awaited release of Google’s Gemini models yesterday. But their enthusiasm was tempered by the fact that the only model available right now is Gemini Nano, which you can guess means it’s small—so small it can run on Google’s Pixel phones. Developers have to wait until next week’s release of Gemini Pro, Google’s equivalent of GPT-3.5, to have a model... Read more ›
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Amazon Web Services last week said it would allow Nvidia to operate a cloud service using AWS data centers, making AWS the last major cloud provider to do so. With the new service, known as DGX Cloud service, Nvidia will rent servers that contain its graphics processing units from AWS, then sell access to the servers to its own customers, The Information has reported. As part of the deal, AWS... Read more ›
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For a year or two, Chinese auto and battery companies have circled North America in search of an opening to sell their products in the U.S.—the world’s second-largest car market, but one hostile to goods made in China, the U.S.’s chief geopolitical rival. None of the Chinese companies, however, has been as bold as battery developer Gotion, which, eschewing any uncertainty, announced that it would build lithium-ion batteries in Michigan... Read more ›
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Today tells you a lot about the current state of Google and its parent company Alphabet. The tech giant, once the leader in artificial intelligence, unveiled its answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT with a product—Gemini Pro—that is comparable to what OpenAI released a year ago. It’s easy to miss this nuance amid the deluge of positive press, but Google’s more competitive product—Gemini Ultra—won’t be out until January at the earliest, as... Read more ›
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You probably first came across House of Highlights years ago on Instagram after the channel posted a clip of LeBron James blocking a shot or Steph Curry hitting a three-point shot from deep. You may have also noticed these NBA stars liking and commenting on those posts. House of Highlights, or HOH for short, has become as much of a household name for many younger sports fans as ESPN.In recent... Read more ›
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Ten years ago, on December 4, 2013, The Information hit the ground sprinting—and it hasn’t slowed down since. Day 1 saw the publication of a pair of instantly buzzy stories. The first, by founder and CEO Jessica Lessin, was titled “How Apple Gives Some Apps an Edge.” The second, co-bylined by Jessica and now–executive editor Amir Efrati, was headlined “Google’s Andy Rubin Pursues ‘Replicant’ Robots.” Both stories offered a hint... Read more ›
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Warner Bros. Discovery executives talked up their gaming business as a growth opportunity in a recent call with investors. That makes sense. In 2023, gaming and Hollywood increasingly overlapped in the zeitgeist: The second-highest-grossing movie of the year is “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” based on a videogame. “Friday Night at Freddy’s,” a horror movie based on the popular videogame franchise, recently became the highest grossing movie from Blumhouse Productions,... Read more ›
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After months of anticipation, Google executives are sharing details about Gemini, its high-stakes effort to catch up to OpenAI. There’s a lot to talk about but the bottom line is that Google’s competitor to OpenAI’s GPT-4 isn’t ready yet.Google today is letting developers sign up to access a miniature version of the model, named Gemini Nano, to build AI apps for Android. A bigger version of Gemini, known as Pro,... Read more ›
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Say this for 2023—it was better for tech than 2022 was. Shares of the biggest tech companies recovered, while Nvidia’s soared, boosting the chipmaker’s market capitalization past $1 trillion. There were even a handful of initial public offerings. Chatbots powered by artificial intelligence—most notably OpenAI’s ChatGPT—captivated the public. That said, the news wasn’t all good. Venture investments in startups fell for a second consecutive year, despite a surge of investment... Read more ›
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Booking Holdings and Airbnb have long resembled a father-son duo of the online travel industry. Airbnb has traditionally been the cool kid of the two, a fast-growing San Francisco media darling that customers flocked to. Its product became a verb. Booking—which came from an older internet generation, marked by a utilitarian, Dutch-influenced corporate culture—had to advertise heavily on Google search engines in order to attract anyone. But, just as people... Read more ›
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The creator economy is global, but many creators make content in only one language. To reach more fans, some creators are replacing the audio with a translated version, known as dubbing. But dubbing can cost as much as $75 per minute, according to Bunny Studio, which provides creative services including voiceovers. Generative artificial intelligence may change that, though. In addition to YouTube, at least three venture-backed companies released AI-powered dubbing... Read more ›
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OpenView Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm that has backed enterprise software firms such as Calendly and Expensify, has laid off most of its staff and will not make new investments, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The sudden fall of the firm, which employed at least 74 people, according to its website, could be a sign of rising pressure on VC firms to generate returns... Read more ›
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Sequoia’s investing empire is shoring up control at one of its startup crown jewels during a critical time for the Silicon Valley firm. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital recently added Luciana Lixandra, a partner based in London, to the board of $50 billion payments company Stripe, one of the most valuable holdings in Sequoia’s sprawling portfolio. Separately, Sequoia Heritage, the firm’s separate wealth management business, added a partner, Kevin Kelly,... Read more ›
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New PayPal CEO Alex Chriss is fast-tracking an effort to bolster the company’s defenses against Stripe and Apple Pay, highlighting how the payments giant has fallen behind newer, slicker competitors. Teams across the payments giant have been racing to add a slew of new features to make its digital wallet and online checkout more attractive for shoppers and merchants, two employees said, part of a project code named Quantum Leap... Read more ›
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If anyone knows anything about me, it’s that I’m terrible at giving gifts. But, if I were BFFs with any of the model developers, I’d know what would be at the top of their Christmas lists: AI chips.These pieces of specialized hardware—known as “graphics processing units'' in industry parlance—have been the hottest commodity of 2023, so much so that VCs have been offering them to entice buzzy startups to take... Read more ›
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On Reddit’s founding anniversary in June, CEO Steve Huffman and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham reminisced in front of employees about old times, when the online forum hatched out of the first class of the famed startup accelerator in 2005. Others in the Y Combinator class had since moved on and folded their early startups. “Reddit is the last one” to survive, said Jodi Anderson, Jr., who worked in ad... Read more ›
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Where’s the cake? Today marks The Information’s 10th birthday, which is a milestone for any news startup, and even more so for one that has never raised outside funding. (That’s what you call bootstrapping.) Those of us who’ve been here through most or all of the past decade truly have empathy for tech startups. You labor in obscurity until one day you don’t (hopefully!). Still, what’s striking today is that... Read more ›
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Vast Data, an AI software and storage startup backed by Nvidia, raised a new funding round led by Fidelity Investments and including participation of venture capital firms NEA and Bond. The round values Vast Data at more than $9 billion, people familiar with the matter said, compared to its valuation of $3.7 billion set in 2021. Seven-year old Vast Data plans to use some of the proceeds of the fundraising... Read more ›
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