Sam Altman makes 'mic drop' offer to every Y Combinator startup | TechCrunch
…In other words, he promised that OpenAI would invest in the whole class, not with cash but with an allotment of AI tokens that startups can use to build their products. Y…
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Meta, like SpaceX, looks to turn excess AI compute into cash | TechCrunch
Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business, selling access to AI compute power and models. The move would pit it against the big cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Google…
Robinhood's venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says | TechCrunch
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is touting the success of the fintech’s new Ventures Fund I , which allows retail investors to invest in private tech companies like Stripe, Oura, Databricks, OpenAI, and…
SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO | TechCrunch
…Who wins and who doesn’t SpaceX is the world’s largest IPO in history and means a big payday for some investors, employees, and, of course, Elon Musk. Elon Musk becomes…
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor | TechCrunch
…It also aims to keep on making big investments into research to keep up with foundational AI rivals — and Mensch’s post also covered where he thinks the company stands in that…
Has the hunt for AI compute uncovered the next Cerebras? | TechCrunch
…This year, he launched a new fund, Evercrest Capital Partners, focused on the AI space, and made General Compute one of his first investments. Hasselmann sees in SambaNova’s partnership with General…
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in | TechCrunch
…That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but the startup, founded by two former early Datadog engineers, has attracted some big-name angels like Reid Hoffman, Datadog’s Olivier Pomel and…
How to invest when everything is moving too fast | TechCrunch
TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC evening in Los Angeles late last week brought together two of the more straight-talking investors working in AI right now. Carter Reum is co-founder of M13 , an…
ClickHouse triples annualized revenue to $250M, charting a path toward an IPO | TechCrunch
…It “is something that’s a little counterintuitive, but it also has been a big tailwind for us,” he said. Topics AI , AI infranstructure , ClickHouse , database services , Enterprise , IPO , Venture When you…
OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US | TechCrunch
OpenAI is making yet another big, visible bet on India. It has appointed former Uber India and South Asia president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for the country to scale…