In 2012, Amazon quietly acquired a robotics startup called Kiva Systems, a move that dramatically improved the efficiency of its ecommerce operations and kickstarted a wider revolution in warehouse automation. Last week, the ecommerce giant announced another deal that could prove similarly profound, agreeing to hire the founders of Covariant, a startup that has been … Read more
Ilya Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 5, 2023. Jack Guez | AFP | Getty Images OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who left the artificial intelligence startup in May, has raised $1 billion from investors for his new AI company, Safe Superintelligence, or SSI. The company announced … Read more
Anthropic on Wednesday rolled out Claude Enterprise, its biggest new product since its chatbot’s debut and a step up for businesses looking to integrate Anthropic’s artificial intelligence. The Amazon-backed AI startup, founded by former OpenAI research executives, is the company behind Claude — one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, has exploded … Read more
The first wave of major generative AI tools largely were trained on “publicly available” data—basically, anything and everything that could be scraped from the internet. Now, sources of training data are increasingly restricting access and pushing for licensing agreements. With the hunt for additional data sources intensifying, new licensing startups have emerged to keep the … Read more
A view of the logo of Qualcomm at the Mobile World Congress 2024. Ramon Costa | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Qualcomm launched a new PC processor on Wednesday as it looks to capitalize on electronics makers’ desire to put artificial intelligence on their devices. The move ramps up Qualcomm’s efforts to challenge … Read more
Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, displays the new Blackwell GPU chip during the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2024. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Semiconductor stocks, led by Nvidia, fell Tuesday during an overall down day for the market. The S&P 500 slid by more than … Read more
Telegram logo displayed on a broken phone screen. Illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 27, 2024. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Following the recent arrest of its founder in France, Telegram is now facing potential legal troubles in South Korea. The country’s chief police investigator has announced a preliminary investigation into the … Read more
Microsoft, Google and Amazon along with other tech companies have been getting creative in how they’re poaching talent from top artificial intelligence startups. Earlier this month, Google signed an unusual deal with Character.ai to hire away its prominent founder and more than one-fifth of its workforce while also licensing its technology. It looked like an acquisition, but … Read more
The U.S. is home to the majority of the world’s data centers, with more than 2,800. The closest nation after that is the United Kingdom, with less than 400, according to the Data Center Map. Data centers are the physical vertebrae of internet infrastructure, supporting cloud computing capabilities and artificial intelligence. The value of the … Read more
Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images OpenAI and Anthropic, the two most richly valued artificial intelligence startups, have agreed to let the U.S. AI Safety Institute test their new models before releasing them to the public, following increased concerns in the industry about safety and ethics in AI. The institute, housed within the Department … Read more
