A “bio-ingenuity” startup removing forever chemicals from water. An AI company building new models and chips inspired by neuroscience and physics. A biotech figuring out how secreted proteins can be marshaled to develop drugs to address chronic diseases.
These are “deep tech” startups—ones focused on the kind of technically challenging ideas that were once the bedrock of venture-capital investment but are now a niche within the larger world of VC f
Just four months after launching xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company has its first product.
Grok was launched in beta overnight, with Musk promising a personality- and humor-filled chatbot that’s been, in part, trained on the vast volumes of user data on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
That ability to tap into a real-time stream of commentary and analysis on the social network has been posited by Musk as a game changer. Unlike ChatGPT and other large
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You’ll soon see AI in most writing tools. Canva, Notion, Craft, Coda, and other popular writing services have been racing to add new AI features. Google Docs added a new AI-driven summarization feature. Read on for what AI can do for you, where the hype goes too far, and a few recommended to
At its first developer event Monday, OpenAI announced a new large language model called GPT-4 Turbo, into which users can feed as much as 300 book pages of text as context around a prompt. The company also announced a new customizable version of ChatGPT, as well as a new store that will showcase some user-customized bots that are particularly useful.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told a room full of developers (OpenAI API customers) that GPT-4 Turbo will allow users to input up to 128,
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is stepping down from her role at the dating app she founded nearly a decade ago, the company announced on Monday.
Lidiane Jones, who is currently CEO of the workplace-messaging platform Slack, will succeed Wolfe Herd starting January 2. Wolfe Herd, meanwhile, will transition to executive chair.
“The last decade has been completely transformational for me as a human,” Wolfe Herd, who also cofounded Tinder, said in an interview wi
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has announced the beta release of its AI chatbot, called Grok. Grok is designed to be a competitor to the reigning chatbot king, ChatGPT, with Musk and xAI noting that the chatbot is designed to be more sarcastic than other chatbots. Here’s what you need to know about Grok.
- What is Grok? It’s the name of the chatbot that xAI just released in beta. Grok is based on large language model (LLM)
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The cars, cellphones, computers and televisions that people in the U.S. use every day require metals like copper, cobalt and platinum to build. Demand from the electronics industry for these metals is only rising, and companies are constantly searching for new places on Earth to mine them.
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Call it the Beatles’ third law: For every song that’s become an indelible part of the Western pop canon, there’s an equal and opposite “What if?” What if they’d mended the band’s fractured foundation in the ’60s? What if more of them had made it to old age? How many more songs could there have been?
We now have a tantalizing hint at an answer in the form of “Now and Then,” a new single being billed as the final Be
After John Furner, president and CEO of Walmart U.S., told Bloomberg in October that GLP-1s, a class of medications prescribed for weight loss—which include Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Wegovy—are changing how shoppers behave, resulting in their buying slightly less food, shares for Mondelez (maker of Oreo), PepsiCo, and Hershey’s tumbled.
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