Itâs one thing for Google, Microsoft and Nvidia to buy shares of mature artificial intelligence startups at inflated prices. But when venture capitalists known for backing young startups do it, we canât help but scratch our heads and wonder why.Take Menlo Ventures, which is leading an investment in OpenAIâs most comparable rival, Anthropic, my colleagues reported on Wednesday. The round values the company at $15 billion or higher, at least... Read more âș
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Payments giant Stripe, a bellwether of the startup world, kept a lid on spending for engineers and salespeople this year after business slowed in 2022. Now itâs reaping the benefits: as revenue growth has re-accelerated, itâs making money again. Stripeâs net revenuesâwhat the firm takes in from payments it processes after it passes a large cut to credit card companies and other financial institutionsâgrew by about 35% to roughly $1... Read more âș
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In 2006, the auto industry ridiculed Tesla CEO Elon Musk when he said that over the next few years, he would mass-produce three models of electric vehicles, including a midpriced car. In 2013, with two of those promised EVs in production and the third on the way, Musk drew a new round of skepticism when he doubled down and said he also intended to build a âgigafactoryâ for batteries, with... Read more âș
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Akash here. Iâm a data reporter with The Information Pro, and as we approach the holidays, Kaya and I have been crunching some numbers about the year weâve just had. Weâve put together three data pointsâone chart and two tablesâthat define 2023.Our first, the chart above, shows how far creator startup funding has fallen this year. Venture funding for creator businesses in the U.S. totaled roughly $800 million through the... Read more âș
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David Zaslav must like scary movies. The Warner Bros. Discovery CEO met with Paramount Global chief Bob Bakish this week, we and others reported, to discuss a merger, among other things. For the uninitiated, such a combination would put together the Warner Bros. and Paramount film and TV studios, as well as TV networks such as TNT, TBS, Showtime, HBO, CBS and CNN, plus streaming services like Max. Investors quickly... Read more âș
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Anthropic is in talks to raise $750 million in a venture round led by Menlo Ventures that values the two-year-old artificial intelligence startup at $15 billion not including the investment, more than three times its valuation this spring, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. The round hasn't finalized. The final price could top $18 billion, according to a third person. The investment adds to commitments secured... Read more âș
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After a grim year of many layoffs, The Informationâs readers expect better days lie ahead for tech workers. A majority of respondents to our most recent survey said they expect their employers to add staff next year. More than a quarter of respondents said they expect their companyâs workforce to grow by more than 10% next year. Less than 20% said they expect their companies to end 2024 with fewer... Read more âș
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The other day, Beeper CEO Eric Migicovsky posted a meme from the Belgian comic âThe Adventures of Tintinâ on X. In it, a disheveled Captain Haddock asks: âWhat a week, huh?â To which his friend Tintin responds: âCaptain, itâs Monday.â That about sums up Migicovskyâs life since the first week in December, when his startup released its Beeper Mini app, which allows Android users to participate in iMessage chats without... Read more âș
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If you want to know the extent to which businesses are embracing generative artificial intelligence, look no further than Wall Street. Quants and hedge funds are head over heels for large language models and the researchers who make them, as my colleagues and I have frequently pointed out. The latest sign of the finance industryâs infatuation with LLMs: Big banks, known to be among the stingiest software buyers, also are... Read more âș
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Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has built a public reputation as someone who is concerned about the safety of young people on Instagram. During an appearance on CBS in 2019, he said user well-being was a âNo. 1 priority.â At a Senate hearing in 2021, he described youth online safety as âcritically important.â And when pressed about changes to Instagram, he has said Meta Platforms will make decisions that hurt the... Read more âș
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The loose money that flowed during the SPAC boom gave fledgling companies like Los Angelesâbased Fisker a chance to get their electric cars out into the world. Promising investors new, cost-efficient ways of building sustainable SUVs, Fisker topped out at an $8 billion market cap in early 2021, before it had even produced a car.While the SPAC exuberance has long since faded, the fallout is still important to track. Fisker... Read more âș
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Google plans to reorganize a big part of its 30,000-person ad sales unit, an executive told some staff last week, prompting anxiety that some departments will face job cuts. The planned reorganization comes as Google is relying more on machine-learning techniques to help customers buy even more ads on its search engine, YouTube and other services. Google has offered such toolsâwhich automatically suggest and create new ads that it believes... Read more âș
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As weâre in the thick of the gift-giving season, plenty of creators are recommending their favorite products and compiling guides of items people should buy for loved ones. But some emerging creators are also encouraging their fans to purchase them a gift. While creators more commonly garner support through tipping, or crowdfunding and donation sites like Buy Me a Coffee and Ko-fi, two-year-old Throne is facilitating sending creators physical gifts.... Read more âș
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Retired technology executive Gary Stuartâs garage is full of electric carsâa Rivian truck for himself and a Lucid Motors sedan for his wife. He was so eager to own an electric SUV from another fledgling firm, Los Angelesâbased Fisker, that he put down a $5,000 deposit for a vehicle last year. He even invested nearly $100,000 in the companyâs stock. But Stuartâs enthusiasm has faded. His Fisker SUV, delayed by... Read more âș
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OpenAIâs technology and revenue is ahead of Anthropicâs, but when it comes to practices aimed at making sure people donât use generative artificial intelligence to harm society, OpenAI seems to be playing catch-up. In a 26-page document published Monday, OpenAI discussed how it evaluates AI models for âcatastrophic risksâ before selling them to the public.The move comes three months after Anthropic published its own, 22-page document on how itâs getting... Read more âș
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Matt Garman, head of sales at Amazon Web Services, plans to reorganize his more than 60,000-person team to address problems that have pierced the worldâs biggest cloud providerâs aura of invincibility and created an opening for Microsoft and other rivals. Early next year, Garman will consolidate teams that developed conflicting sales strategies and change how AWS assigns technical staff to help customers, among other things, after some of those clients... Read more âș
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What would European bureaucrats do without an active U.S. tech industry to bother? On Monday, for instance, Adobe and Figma called off their $20 billion deal in the face of European regulatory opposition. The deal would have led âto higher prices, reduced quality or less choice for customers,â claimed European regulatory czar Margrethe Vestager in a triumphant statement. But that wasnât all. The Europeans also opened a formal investigation into... Read more âș
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On Friday, I published my long read on All-In, the podcast that half of Silicon Valley lovesâand the other half loves to hate. The hosts, entrepreneurs and tech investors Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks, have successfully used the show to snatch back the mic from a critical press and, arguably, to distract from a less-than-impressive couple of years in their day jobs.The four hosts used the... Read more âș
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The decision by Adobe and Figma to spike their $20 billion merger on Monday dented the imminent dream of startup riches for Figma investors and employees. But Figmaâs business is still growing quicker than that of most mature startups, potentially putting it in position for an initial public offering in 2025 or later. And the billion-dollar breakup fee from Adobe will strengthen Figmaâs already robust balance sheet. The design software... Read more âș
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As the tech industry slowed down for the holidays, thousands of artificial intelligence researchers, engineers, founders and investors revved up in New Orleans at the Conference on Neural Information Processing SystemsâNeurIPS for short.While researchers presented papers on large language models and diffusion models underlying image generators like Dall-E, attendees we spoke to said they werenât there for the research. To be featured at NeurIPS, papers had to be submitted by... Read more âș
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