95% Of OpenAI Employees Threatened To Resign. Visa Holders Face Risk.
A collective action by 740-plus OpenAI employees to demand the board’s resignation or see them quit has foreign visa holders putting their residence status in jeopardy.| Forbes
A collective action by 740-plus OpenAI employees to demand the board’s resignation or see them quit has foreign visa holders putting their residence status in jeopardy.| Forbes
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of the year-old startup that’s already raised $225 million and claims to run one of the world’s largest language models, sees his dialog-based chatbot as a key step toward a true AI-based personal assistant.| Forbes
Valued by Tencent at $1.25 billion, ClassDojo is rolling out its own virtual space for kids this August—putting it on a collision course with Meta, Roblox and others to bring education to the digital world.| Forbes
Flexport founder Ryan Petersen is joining Founders Fund, the Peter Thiel-founded VC firm that had previously backed him, as an investment partner.| Forbes
CEO Harrison Chase confirmed a $20 million funding round led by Sequoia and said his one-year-old startup already had a waitlist of 80,000 for its new tools.| Forbes
The incoming Trump agency for cutting government excess is seeking 100 full-time hires in the nation’s capital, sources tell Forbes, which spoke to some early applicants.| Forbes
Sequoia’s China and India and Southeast Asia funds are shedding their brand ties, becoming new firms HongShan and Peak XV Partners.| Forbes
Canva is now one of the world’s most valuable startups after raising $200 million in new funding at a $40 billion valuation. Cofounders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht promise to donate 30% of the company away.| Forbes
Software startup Clay took years to figure out its product. Now it’s growing fast, with tens of millions in revenue and a valuation that’s doubled in six months.| Forbes
From the unlikeliest of places, Melanie Perkins grew design app Canva into one of the most valuable software startups in the world. Her digital tools are populist, profitable and a potential threat to Adobe and Microsoft.| Forbes
Imbue has a $1 billion valuation and access to 10,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs, but its founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht say it could be years away from revealing a product.| Forbes
The ten-year-old Australian startup led by Melanie Perkins said annualized revenue had reached $1.6 billion and also unveiled brand-focused features for its 6 million team accounts.| Forbes
CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found.| Forbes
Cloud 100 fixture Tanium is embracing the AI era under new CEO Dan Streetman, with $700 million in sales and 10% free cash flow margins. Just don’t call it a comeback.| Forbes
In 2024, startups riding the generative AI wave dominate the top of Forbes' annual list of the best private cloud companies.| Forbes
Mustafa Suleyman's chatbot startup Inflection AI is now valued at $4 billion, backed by Microsoft, Nvidia and tech billionaires Reid Hoffman, Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt.| Forbes
Airtable’s new Cobuilder product generates apps just from a simple prompt — and has the $11.7 billion-valued startup back eyeing an IPO after painful job cuts.| Forbes
Anthropic's round led by Menlo Ventures surprised some insiders for its form of a special purpose vehicle and its function to help price bets by giants Amazon and Google.| Forbes
Forbes spoke to OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Greg Brockman—and more than 60 other leaders, from Bill Gates to Fei-Fei Li—about the new wave of AI hype, driven by the viral popularity of ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion. Here’s why AI is about to change how you work, like it or not.| Forbes
Former venture capitalist Garry Tan has slashed programs and turned up the mics in a bid to restore the famed accelerator behind Airbnb and Stripe to its full glory.| Forbes
Billionaire investors of the internet era are locked in a policy battle to determine whether AI’s future will be one of concentrated safety or of unfettered advancement.| Forbes
Valued at $26 billion, Canva unveiled big business-friendly software updates to its 185 million monthly users as CEO Melanie Perkins heralded “the year of work.”| Forbes
Armada raised $55 million, reaching a valuation close to $250 million, in one year under CEO Dan Wright. The startup has a "close collaboration" with Elon Musk’s SpaceX.| Forbes
Called Inflection-2, the model performed better than Google’s PaLM Large 2 model previously announced in May on a number of standard benchmarks, Inflection said, while...| Forbes
Now valued at $300 million while still pre-revenue, per a source, Tome says it’s the fastest productivity software maker to ever reach a million users since its September release.| Forbes
Wiz is one of software’s fastest-growing startups, with $200 million in sales and a $10 billion valuation. But CEO Assaf Rappaport’s approach is leaving singed eyebrows.| Forbes
Cofounders Dario and Daniela Amodei told Forbes Anthropic’s new enterprise-focused model, released Monday, outperforms rivals GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra.| Forbes
Internet startup Meter, led by brothers Anil and Sunil Varanasi, has raised $35 million at a valuation of more than $350 million to bring networking into the AI age.| Forbes
New model Claude 2.0 is better at coding, math and reasoning, CEO Dario Amodei said. Unlike its predecessor, it’s available for general consumer use.| Forbes
Notion has raised $275 million from Coatue, Sequoia and Base10 as users of the work app increased 5x from the pandemic's early days, to more than 20 million.| Forbes
