Fri. 08/30 – Who ISN’T Investing In OpenAI?

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

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At this point it would be quicker to name the big tech company that’s NOT investing in OpenAI’s latest round. Amazon’s new Alexa service is just going to be Anthropic’s Claude in drag disguise I guess. I’m starting to get really worried about Intel y’all. And, of course, The Weekend Longreads Suggestions. Links: OpenAI Funding Round Tempts Nvidia as Big Tech Leans on ChatGPT (Bloomberg) Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ) Ask Claude: Amazon turns to Anthropic's AI for Alexa revamp (Reuters) ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year (The Verge) Intel Weighs Options Including Foundry Split to Stem Losses (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Sunk cost (the Open Sea story) (The Verge) The secret inside One Million Checkboxes (eieio.games) I Watched Footage of Jerry Lewis’s Unreleased 1972 Holocaust Film (The New Republic) End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell (AnandTech) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Bride Home for Friday, August 30th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.0	At this point, it would be quicker to name the big tech company that's not investing in open AI's latest
0:14.5	round. Amazon's new Alexa service is just going to be Anthropics clawed in
0:19.0	drag disguise I guess. I'm starting to get really worried about Intel y'all and of course the weekend long
0:25.8	rate suggestions here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.1	sources say that in addition to Microsoft, Invidia and Apple are in talks to join the new
0:38.7	funding round that would value Open AI at over $100 billion.
0:42.3	That would mean Open AI would have the three most valuable
0:45.5	tech companies in the world on their cap table. Again, nice work if you can get it, quoting
0:51.9	Bloomberg.
0:53.1	The round would be led by Thrive Capital, which is investing about $1 billion.
0:56.7	Bloomberg reported earlier this week.
0:58.6	NVIDIA has discussed investing about $100 million, two of the people said.
1:03.0	Microsoft was already open AI's biggest funder, having invested roughly $13 billion.
1:08.0	Apple has existing ties with open AI as well.
1:11.1	The iPhone maker is adding
1:12.8	chat geebee to its new suite of AI features called
1:15.1	Apple Intelligence. The company also was slated to take a board
1:18.4	observer seat at open AI alongside Microsoft, but those plans were
1:21.5	dropped in July.
1:23.0	Invidia, meanwhile, supplies the critical infrastructure needed to develop and run AI tools
1:27.1	like ChatGPT.
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