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Jeff Dean's New AI Startup Seeks $10B Valuation With Big Backers
technology12 days ago

Jeff Dean's New AI Startup Seeks $10B Valuation With Big Backers

Former Google AI chief Jeff Dean is in talks to raise about $1B at a roughly $10B valuation for Discovery Loop, a startup that aims to automate machine learning and scientific discovery through parallel experimentation; the round is led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital, with Alphabet as a founding investor and a team of veteran Google researchers guiding the effort.

via Business Insider|
#ai-startup#discovery-loop#google-exec
Jeff Dean Unveils Discovery Loop Pitch Deck to Push AI Breakthroughs
technology18 days ago

Jeff Dean Unveils Discovery Loop Pitch Deck to Push AI Breakthroughs

Jeff Dean, Google’s longtime chief scientist, revealed slides for his new AI startup Discovery Loop, highlighting the founders’ Google-built successes (Search, Ads, Gmail, Gemini, TPUs) and a plan to automate the experimental loop in AI research, with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals aboard; initial funding is led by Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, with Alphabet participating.

via Business Insider|
#ai-startup#discovery-loop#google
Google AI Pioneers Quit to Launch Discovery Loop
technology20 days ago

Google AI Pioneers Quit to Launch Discovery Loop

Several of Google’s top AI leaders, including Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, are leaving Google to found Discovery Loop, a public-benefit startup that will pursue AI-driven, automated scientific discovery across domains such as biology, drug design, chip design, and materials. Google will take a stake and provide compute for a year, while investors like Vinod Khosla and Radical Ventures back the venture. The team aims to develop autonomous machine-learning loops that could become the core AI researcher for multiple fields, signaling a notable shift in the AI research landscape.

via WIRED|
#ai-startup#automated-scientific-method#discovery-loop
Free Cleaning, Filmed for AI: My Robot-Training Home Experiment
technology2 months ago

Free Cleaning, Filmed for AI: My Robot-Training Home Experiment

A New York journalist tries Shift’s free housekeeping service, which pays cleaners (and a chef) to visit, while filming the apartment with cap-mounted cameras to train robots. The session, about two hours, yielded basic cleaning plus a surprise three-course lunch; cameras and wires were visible, raising privacy concerns even as Shift says it anonymizes data. The piece situates this as part of a broader trend of paying for home-task videos to train AI, questions the sustainability given the high cost, and ends with a cautious take on the future of robots trained from real-home footage.

via Business Insider|
#ai-startup#home-cleaning#privacy
Bezos-backed Prometheus bets $12B Series B on AI-driven industrial design
business2 months ago

Bezos-backed Prometheus bets $12B Series B on AI-driven industrial design

Bezos-backed Prometheus announced a $12 billion Series B at a $41 billion valuation to develop an 'artificial general engineer' aimed at speeding up pre-production and prototyping via industrial AI. The 150-employee startup is backed by major investors (JPMorgan, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, DST Global, Arch Venture Partners) and Bezos himself, with no direct ties to Amazon or Blue Origin; details on training data, timing, and product rollout remain undisclosed, while the goal is to compress the dream-to-production cycle across industries.

via Axios|
#ai-startup#business#jeff-bezos
xAI Cofounder Exodus Narrows Team to Two
business5 months ago

xAI Cofounder Exodus Narrows Team to Two

Most of xAI’s cofounders have left, with Zihang Dai exiting this week and Guodong Zhang expected to depart soon, leaving only two of the original 11 founders (Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen) remaining. Earlier exits include Toby Pohlen, Jimmy Ba, Tony Wu, and Greg Yang. The company has reorganized under Musk, hired Cursor alumni Jason Ginsberg and Andrew Milich, and Musk says xAI is being rebuilt from the foundations up; SpaceX reportedly owns xAI and an IPO is being considered as projects like Grok Code and Grok Imagine undergo changes.

via Business Insider|
#ai-startup#business#elon-musk
Yann LeCun Aims for €3 Billion Valuation in New AI Venture
business8 months ago

Yann LeCun Aims for €3 Billion Valuation in New AI Venture

Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, is in early talks to raise €500 million for his new AI startup, Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs, aiming for a €3 billion valuation, with plans to develop advanced AI systems focusing on world models and physical understanding, while Meta shifts its AI strategy and LeCun prepares to leave the company.

via Financial Times|
#ai-startup#artificial-intelligence#business
Anthropic Eyes Major IPO and Valuation Milestone by 2026
business8 months ago

Anthropic Eyes Major IPO and Valuation Milestone by 2026

Anthropic, an AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, is in early talks to launch one of the largest IPOs next year, potentially valuing the company above $300 billion, as it competes with OpenAI in the AI space. The company has engaged top law firms and discussed with major investment banks, though no final decisions have been made. This move could test investor appetite for loss-making AI companies amid a growing AI industry bubble.

via CNBC|
#ai-startup#anthropic#business
Mira Murati's AI Startup Launches Its First Fine-Tuning API
technology10 months ago

Mira Murati's AI Startup Launches Its First Fine-Tuning API

Mira Murati, a prominent AI executive and former CTO of OpenAI, launched her own startup, Thinking Machines Lab, which recently released its first product, Tinker, aimed at democratizing AI model fine-tuning. Despite aggressive recruitment efforts by Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, her team remains loyal, emphasizing her leadership and vision for accessible AI. Murati's journey from Albania to Silicon Valley highlights her influence in the AI industry and her commitment to responsible AI development.

via Fortune|
#ai-startup#mira-murati#openai