Good evening!
Wonder if anyone’s having a better Friday than the folks at the Felicis firm.
Here are the 7 things you missed today:
1. 🔥 Meta’s Investing $14.3Bn Into Scale AI
It’s costly to play catch up. Meta’s finding that out as we speak, with their latest investment of $14.3 billion to acquire 49% of Scale AI and hire its CEO Alexandr Wang to lead its new AI lab. Wang will report directly to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, while Scale AI will promote its Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege to the CEO role. (The Verge)
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3. 👀 AMD’s Nvidia Competitor Chip Has Started Shipping
Watch out, Nvidia. While the chipmaker may dominate the AI chip market for now, AMD’s CEO Lisa Su believes the $500 billion tipping point is now closer than ever. At its San Jose event today, the CEO announced AMD’s MI350 series chip began shipping earlier this month and delivers 35x faster interference performance than its predecessor. (Quartz)
4. 🙅🏻♀️ "Lead Gen" Doesn't Work Anymore
The average company stays with a lead-gen service for only 2 months. Why? Because every lead-gen service stops at the opt-in. We don’t.
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5. 🔋 Amazon is Buying 1.92 GW of Nuclear Power for AWS
Amazon’s the latest to go direct to big nuclear operators. The tech company is planning to power a chunk of its AWS cloud and AI servers using 1.92 gigawatts of electricity from Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. (TechCrunch)
6. 💰 Early-Stage Fund Felicis Raised $900M
Felicis founder Aydin Senkut celebrated his 19th year of early-stage investing by announcing the firm’s biggest fund yet: a $900 million Fund X. Felicis is a seed and Series A firm known best for backing successes including Bonobos, Ring, Shopify, and Twitch, among others. (TechCrunch)
7. 🗣️ Google is Testing Audio Overviews for Search Queries
Ever wish Google could literally speak the answer to your query? Wish no more. Google Search is experimenting with Audio Overviews for certain Search queries by using its latest Gemini models to give users another way to absorb and understand information. (TechCrunch)
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