Generative AI
Tiger Global plans to join OpenAI’s funding round at more than $150 billion valuation
In this photo illustration, the OpenAI logo is displayed on a mobile phone screen with a photo of Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. Didem Mente | Anadolu | Getty Images Tiger Global is planning to join OpenAI’s buzzy new funding round that would value the artificial intelligence startup at more than $150 billion, according to […]
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People like traveling, but hate planning. Hear how Booking Holdings CEO plans to change that
Most people like traveling. But far fewer enjoy booking it. A survey of more than 2,400 people who book their own travel arrangements found that 71% say the process is at least somewhat stressful for them, according to a 2024 survey by the consumer data company CivicScience. The percentage is even higher among parents of kids […]
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OpenAI, Anthropic and Google execs meet with White House to talk AI energy and data centers
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty Images Leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google and several American power and utility companies met Thursday at the White House to discuss the future of artificial intelligence […]
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China wants to challenge the U.S. in AI — here’s what Chinese giants are doing with the tech
China is looking to challenge the U.S. in artificial intelligence. China’s tech giants have launched their own AI models. Niphon | Istock | Getty Images Global attention around generative artificial intelligence has been focused on big U.S. companies like OpenAI, Alphabet‘s Google and Meta. But some of China’s giants, from Alibaba to Tencent, have launched […]
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‘It will come.’ Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel on how travelers will book trips in the future
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Rather than travelers sitting down to plan trips, “I want us to be going to the traveler” with recommendations based on travelers’ prior trips, Booking.com’s CEO Glenn Fogel told CNBC’s Monica Pitrelli. Source
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Amazon makes £8 billion UK investment to build cloud and AI infrastructure
Amazon’s computing unit AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its data center business in the country as part of the tech giant’s effort to boost its cloud offer in Europe, four people familiar with the matter said. Cesc Maymo | Getty Images News | Getty Images […]
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OpenAI gives artists access to unreleased tools like Sora for New York gallery exhibit
OpenAI announced Friday a New York City art gallery collaboration that gives artists access to unreleased artificial intelligence tools. The exhibit, a series called “Strada Nuova: New Road” on view at Strada Gallery will run for three weeks and centers on a “diverse group of artists [that] is curated to consist of brilliant researchers, academics, […]
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AI craze is distorting VC market, as tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon pour in billions of dollars
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky speaks with Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei during AWS re:Invent 2023, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas in Las Vegas on Nov. 28, 2023. Noah Berger | Getty Images Almost three years into a largely dormant IPO cycle, venture capitalists are in […]
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OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever raises $1 billion for his new AI firm
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 […]
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Amazon-backed Anthropic rolls out Claude AI for big business
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 […]
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