How AMD’s AI Software Helped It Score The Multi-Billion Dollar OpenAI Deal
Chips aren’t the only star of the massive agreement. AMD’s software efforts have slowly turned it into a more formidable competitor to Nvidia.| Forbes
Chips aren’t the only star of the massive agreement. AMD’s software efforts have slowly turned it into a more formidable competitor to Nvidia.| Forbes
As the trillion-dollar chipmaker faces more scrutiny, it may be looking to flex its muscles in government affairs.| Forbes
Nominations for the annual list will be accepted through October 30.| Richard Nieva
With a client list that includes Nvidia, Anthropic and Uber, the $6 billion-valued Grafana Labs is flexing with $400 million in annualized revenue — and new investment from a tender offer of up to $150 million.| Richard Nieva
Hiring foreign workers just got more expensive for American tech companies. But that’s opened up new recruiting opportunities for non-U.S. AI startups.| Richard Nieva
After announcing a billion-dollar fundraise last week, the $100 billion AI data storage and analytics company is barreling ahead with new investments and plans for an eventual IPO. “It’s not an if, it’s a when,” said CEO Ali Ghodsi.| Forbes
Is it a crypto company? Is it a biometric authentication platform? A “human economic system”? Inside Worldcoin’s struggle to find itself.| Forbes
Businesses are prepping for a new era in search as AI begins to upend the way people find information online.| Forbes
Mercor, debuting on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, built an AI recruiter to interview job candidates. Then it discovered a cash cow: finding humans to train AI models.| Forbes
The AI juggernaut is working with Founders Fund-backed startup Binti in its first foray into government social work.| Forbes
A collaboration between the tech giant and a longtime pollster will gather five to 10 people each from every congressional district to answer questions about the nation’s most pressing issues. If it works, it could upend the fraught world of political polling.| Richard Nieva
When OpenAI released its new flagship GPT-5, it said it would discontinue its older 4o model, popular for its warm writing style. Devoted users were devastated before OpenAI quickly reversed course.| Forbes
The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf.| Richard Nieva
Since the rise of generative AI, many have feared the toll it would take on the livelihood of human workers. Now CEOs are admitting AI’s impact and layoffs are starting to ramp up.| Forbes
Dalton Caldwell and Paul Buchheit, both long-tentured at the firm, are branching out from the storied tech incubator.| Richard Nieva
The AI startup’s biggest clients, which include OpenAI and Google, won’t likely want to trust their data to a company almost half owned by Mark Zuckerberg’s tech empire.| Forbes
Silicon Valley has always glorified hustle culture. Some startups, like AI education company Arrowster, recruitment unicorn Mercor and Y Combinator-backed Corgi, are taking it to another level with 6 and 7 day work weeks.| Forbes
Founded by early Facebook investor Ali Partovi, Neo has made big bets on founders of hotshot AI startups Pika and Anysphere, the company behind coding tool Cursor. With $320 million in new funding, it's aiming to cement its status as the Ivy League of startup boot camps.| Forbes
DeepSeek’s meteoric rise put the spotlight on artificial intelligence from China. Here are the other buzzy Chinese AI companies to watch.| Forbes
Called DBRX, the model will allow businesses to create custom artificial intelligence based on their own proprietary data.| Forbes
The deal will bring flagship model Claude, to thousands of corporate customers, including Comcast, Conde Nast and Block.| Forbes
As AI models get more complex, so do the tasks carried out by humans to train them. It’s given Scale a new focus on U.S.-based labor.| Forbes
Fearing enormous fines, Google and Apple held off from reinstating TikTok to their app stores until the DOJ sent them a second version of President Trump’s “written guidance.”| Forbes
Nearly 15 years after founding Quora, D’Angelo wants to reinvent the question-and answer company around AI—before it goes the way of Yahoo Answers.| Forbes
The $97.4 billion bid muddles up Sam Altman’s quest to convert the ChatGPT-maker into a for-profit company.| Forbes
The billionaire pitched his fledgling company and slammed OpenAI as “closed” and profit-obsessed.| Forbes
Duolingo’s Guatemalan Immigrant Founder Luis von Ahn Is Now A Billionaire| Forbes
As language models like ChatGPT and Gemini have ushered in a new age of AI in Silicon Valley, powerful tech companies are looking to drug discovery and digital biology.| Forbes
For a slew of AI chip companies chomping to dethrone Nvidia, DeepSeek is the opening they’ve been waiting for.| Forbes
The Japanese tech conglomerate has assets, like a majority stake in British chip company Arm, but hasn’t detailed how it will pony up.| Forbes
While language models are getting better at performing tasks like writing poetry and emails, Jumper is looking forward to an era where AI solves problems humans never could on their own.| Forbes
The trillion-dollar chipmaker has done over two dozen AI deals, through its Nventures investing arm and corporate development team. Portfolio companies say the deal comes with intangibles, like access to research teams or emailing with the company’s famous CEO.| Forbes
The $7.65 billion fintech company makes its debut on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, riding the generative AI wave.| Forbes
