
Together AI has raised 800 million dollars in a Series C round led by Aramco Ventures, valuing the company at more than eight billion dollars. The round also drew Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Emergence Capital, Nvidia, March Capital, Pegatron, and SentinelOne’s S Ventures. Together AI says it now generates more than one billion dollars […]

SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a handset-like AI device before its record IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal. The prototype is reportedly slimmer than an iPhone, runs on a proprietary operating system, integrates technology from xAI, and uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset. Elon Musk has denied the report, calling it “utterly false” on […]

Ashton Kutcher is leaving Sound Ventures, the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago, to start a new venture capital firm with Morgan Beller, according to TechCrunch. The new firm will target early-stage investments in AI infrastructure, energy, and deep tech, areas where Kutcher believes the next generation of transformative companies will be […]

Every summer the world’s most powerful central bankers decamp to a hillside town outside Lisbon to argue about the economy in relative calm. This year the argument had a single organising subject, and it was not inflation in the usual sense. It was artificial intelligence, and specifically the awkward fact that nobody in the room […]

A country of just over 10 million people now has a large language model that speaks its own version of the language. Portugal has released Amália, its first national AI model built specifically for European Portuguese, and it has done so in about the most deliberate way a government can. The model, its training data […]