OpenAI’s board of directors is reportedly in talks with Sam Altman, ex-Y Combinator president and an OpenAI co-founder, to return to OpenAI as CEO as soon…
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This weekend, a soft, rumbling feeling reached a loud consensus: Why the heck was OpenAI structured that way? In very dumb words, its nonprofit arm had…
Welcome back to Found, where we get to the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Lisa Bubbers and Anna Harman,…
Social magazine app Flipboard had already committed to joining the ‘fediverse‘ — the decentralized social web, which includes apps like Mastodon. Now, it’s doubling down on…
Three OpenAI board members stepped down earlier this year within months of each other — yet the startup didn’t line up replacements. One of the current…
It has been a whirlwind four days for OpenAI, the generative AI poster child behind the smash hit ChatGPT. Seemingly out of nowhere, the OpenAI board…
One AI startup’s undoing is another’s opportunity. Case in point: today, AI21 Labs, a company developing generative AI products along the lines of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and…
French startup Indy has recently closed a new funding round of $44 million (€40 million) with BlackFin Capital Partners leading the round. Indy started as an…
In interviews on CNBC and Bloomberg TV tonight, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear that it’s possible Sam Altman, who was fired from his role…
Riverwood Capital has closed on $1.8 billion in new capital, the growth investment firm announced today. The firm last raised in 2020, with total capital commitments…