🕶️ Oops! OpenAI Co-founder ditches for Anthropic

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Paula Echeverria & Lucila Sarquis
October 03, 2024

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The waters are choppy, and sailors are jumping ship! 🌊 Durk Kingma, co-founder of OpenAI, has announced his move to Anthropic, while Character.AI just brought on a former YouTube exec following a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Google.

Meanwhile, Bill Gates is out here suggesting we tax the ultra-rich (including himself!), Y Combinator's in hot water with a backlash, and the Developer Relations Foundation just launched with big plans 👨🏽‍💻

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Six bullets of updates

  1. 💰 Bill Gates suggests taxing the ultra-wealthy up to 62%, questioning the existence of billionaires with 163B net worth.

  2. 🔥 OpenAI unveils Realtime API and vision fine-tuning at DevDay; boasts 3M+ developers using its AI models.

  3. 🛠️ The Developer Relations Foundation launches to define roles and metrics; median salary hits 175K.

  4. 📉 Y Combinator faces backlash as PearAI clones AI code editor, sparking open-source licensing uproar with 1000s of comments.

  5. 💡 Lapsi Health gets FDA nod for its $350 digital stethoscope, aiming to evolve medtech with AI and smart sensors.

  6. 👩‍💼 Anduril partners with Apex to supply satellite buses, aiming for high-volume, low-cost defense payloads in orbit.

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Kingma jumps ship: is Anthropic now the new AI dream team?

Source: X

Durk Kingma, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has announced that he will be joining Anthropic, further enhancing the talent pool of the AI safety-focused company. In his posts on X, Kingma expressed his alignment with Anthropic’s mission to develop powerful AI systems responsibly.

With a Ph.D. in machine learning and a rich background in generative AI research at OpenAI, where he led the algorithms team, Kingma brings significant expertise to his new position.

Kingma’s hiring is part of Anthropic's broader strategy to attract top talent from competitors, having recently recruited former OpenAI safety lead Jan Leike and co-founder John Schulman, led by CEO Dario Amodei, who previously served as VP of research at OpenAI.

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These companies just raised money

  1. 🤖 OpenAI clinches $6.6B funding, now valued at $157B, aiming to lead in AI research with 250M ChatGPT users.

  2. 💻 Poolside raises $500M in Series B to enhance its AI coding tools, boosting its valuation to $3 billion.

  3. 🧬 Cancer AI Alliance secures $40M to unite medical and tech giants, aiming to revolutionize precision medicine.

  4. 💰 ExcelCredit snags $50M from Nomura to boost loans for low-income seniors in Colombia, tapping a 37% market slice.

  5. 🌱 Brazilian fintech Gibb secures $5.5M from SRM Ventures to expand operations and serve over 10,000 employees.

  6. 🐾 Uruguayan biotech Xeptiva lands $2.5M seed round to develop veterinary vaccines for osteoarthritis and dermatitis.

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Character.AI’s fresh start after a billion-dollar deal

Source: Unsplash

Character.AI is shifting focus after a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Google, which led to CEO Noam Shazeer’s return to the tech giant. The company has hired Erin Teague, a former YouTube executive, as chief product officer to enhance user interactions with AI.

Following the departure of key co-founders, interim CEO Dominic Perella announced that Character.AI is now centered on consumer AI solutions, with about 100 employees and plans to hire new leadership.

The platform has over 20 million monthly users and introduced features for users to call AI characters, facilitating over 107 million calls.

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