The AI arms race escalates: Google’s $300M bet, Neeva’s paid search engine + So Syncd CEO | E1673
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Molly breaks down Google’s $300M investment in Anthropic and how this deal compares to Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI. (2:00) Then, she dives deep into a former Google executive’s paid search engine and ShiftMed raising $200M to solve the nursing shortage. She wraps the show with an interview featuring the CEO of dating app So Syncd, Jessica Alderson. (13:44)
(0:00) Molly kicks off the show
(2:00) Google invests $300M in Anthropic
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(13:44) Neeva’s new approach to search
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(22:58) AI’s data problem
(28:27) ShiftMed raises $200M
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(34:45) Seed/Series A Interview: Jessica Alderson, CEO of So Syncd
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. I am back after my long weekend. Thanks to you all for letting me go to Tahoe, |
| 0:05.2 | had a great time. And now I'm here doing some solo news. Jason is speaking at Stanford today, |
| 0:11.2 | like the badass that he is. But we have a great show and a bunch of interesting news first. |
| 0:15.5 | I break down the news that Google has invested $300 million in anthropic. The AI startup that we |
| 0:21.3 | talked about that's trying to be safer and more responsible than open AI. We also have a former |
| 0:27.2 | Google executive building an AI search bot to compete with Google and Bing. That's called |
| 0:32.1 | Niva. And I want you to tell me if you are ready to pay for private ad-free search because I am |
| 0:40.6 | then we briefly talk about shift meds start up of the day a massive $200 million raise to combat |
| 0:46.0 | the nursing shortage in the United States not using AI to my knowledge by the way. So good for |
| 0:50.6 | them. Then we wrap up the show with a great series A interview with Jessica Alderson of SoSync, |
| 0:55.9 | which is a dating app that matches people based on their personality type. It's actually, |
| 1:00.0 | I, you know, listen, I know it's better when we're both here. But it's still going to be a great show. |
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| 1:56.8 | slash twist. All right, let's dive into our solo dolo news with a little generative AI update |
| 2:06.6 | for you because it is in fact a day of the week in 2023. So you know we're going to be talking |
| 2:11.7 | about generative AI again. Friday, the latest news is that on Friday, the financial times |
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