Google’s fix for AI’s power problem is to leave the planet
Google used 1 October to announce Project Suncatcher, a plan to put AI data centres in orbit. The pitch is […]
AI Innovation
Deep dives on the companies and founders pushing the frontier of AI, from world models to physics AI.
AMD pays $8.2bn for the godmother of AI, and Nvidia gets a cut
AMD is handing over $8.2bn in stock for Fei-Fei Li’s two-year-old world-model lab, and Nvidia, an early backer, gets paid in AMD shares for the privilege.
AI’s Smart Money Left the Chatbots. It’s Betting on Robots Now.
While everyone argued about which chatbot writes the best emails, the venture money slipped out the back door and into
Accelerated Understanding: The Team That Told Bezos No and Bet on Physics Instead
Most founders would take the Bezos cheque. Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik did not. Instead, the husband-and-wife team passed on
AMI Labs: Yann LeCun Bet His Reputation That LLMs Are a Dead End
Yann LeCun could have coasted. He has a Turing Award, the field’s highest honour, shared for inventing much of modern
Project Prometheus: Jeff Bezos and the $18bn “Artificial General Engineer”
Jeff Bezos is one of the richest people who has ever lived, spends his days on rockets and philanthropy, and
World Labs: Fei-Fei Li’s $1.23bn Bet on Spatial Intelligence
Start with the bull case, because it is a good one. Fei-Fei Li is one of the few people in