Meta's chief AI scientist just gave an interview that undercuts the tidy narrative. What it reveals about benchmark gaming, leadership panic, and the dead end of language model scaling.
A German indie developer spent 18 months building AI autocomplete that works everywhere on your Mac. It runs locally, costs nothing in cloud fees, and faces one existential threat: Apple announcing the same feature as a macOS bullet point.
OpenAI is merging teams and rushing a March audio model, but the real goal isn't better voice. It's preventing a future where ChatGPT becomes the engine but not the car—powerful technology that users access through competitors' devices.
Business Insider reports Mira Murati wants $2 billion for her new AI venture. Silicon Valley can't write checks fast enough.
The former OpenAI CTO has doubled her fundraising target for Thinking Machines Lab. Sources tell Business Insider she's now seeking more than $2 billion at a $10 billion-plus valuation, up from $1 billion just two months ago.
Money helps, but talent wins. Murati has assembled an all-star team of AI researchers who helped build ChatGPT. They include Bob McGrew, OpenAI's former research chief, and John Schulman, who co-led ChatGPT's development.
The company plans to make AI more accessible and customizable. Bold claims from a startup with no product. But Murati's track record at OpenAI, where she spent 6½ years as CTO, gives investors confidence.
The timing works in her favor. AI funding is booming, and companies with real technical expertise are scarce. Murati brings both.
Why this matters:
If successful, this would be the largest seed round ever - proving top AI talent can command unprecedented funding
The original ChatGPT builders now compete against their creation, setting up an intriguing technical rivalry
Tech translator with German roots who fled to Silicon Valley chaos. Decodes startup noise from San Francisco. Launched implicator.ai to slice through AI's daily madness—crisp, clear, with Teutonic precision and sarcasm.
E-Mail: marcus@implicator.ai
Marissa Mayer raised $8 million for her new AI startup. OpenAI raised $11 billion. That gap tells the real story—and so does the $20 million she burned at Sunshine, which managed just 1,000 downloads across multiple products over seven years.
Oracle's bonds carry investment-grade ratings. They trade like junk. Barclays projects the company runs out of cash by November 2026. Behind this single balance sheet sits a $5 trillion industry financing crisis—and a Chinese supply chain nobody wants to discuss.
Anthropic hired IPO lawyers the same day it announced its first acquisition. The company claims efficiency while burning $2.8B annually. Its safety positioning has won enterprise customers—and alienated Trump's White House. The math is complicated.
Inception Point AI produces 3,000 podcast episodes per week with eight employees, spending roughly $1 per episode and breaking even at 20 listens. The Venice startup doesn't compete on quality. It competes on coverage, treating audio as infrastructure for programmatic ads.
