As a AI first tech founder myself, I'm sooooo excited to see this and the innovation to come from Africa!!
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Meta’s $15B Scale AI Investment and ASI Strategy Push
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Top AI news stories – and my spicy take on each one as someone who started in AI almost 20 years ago Meta invests $15B into Scale AI: we know they want to build up their ASI practice (rumors of 7-9 figure packages for technical hires), they missed the Anthropic/OpenAI
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1X Robotics Advances Humanoid Robots Alongside Tesla Figure Unitree
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Bientôt nous verrons des robots dans les gens.
— VISION IA (@vision_ia) 11 juin 2025
C'est un extrait des progrès de l'entreprise 1X robotics.
Tesla, Figure, Unitree et maintenant 1X. Tout le monde avance à grand pas. https://t.co/40kWHS05KBBientôt nous verrons des robots dans les gens. C'est un extrait des progrès de l'entreprise 1X robotics. Tesla, Figure, Unitree et maintenant 1X. Tout le monde avance à grand pas.
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The Next Wave Podcast Hits Top 3 Episode with AI Leaders
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We've got a new top 3 episode on The Next Wave, with my episode with @matanSF
! The show keeps growing ~15% a month, which is starting to add up. Our top 5 episodes: 1: @dmitry at @mindstudioai 2: @ammaar then at @elevenlabs 3: @matanSF at @FactoryAI 4. @gregisenberg at -
USA vs UK: AI and Biosciences Ecosystem Comparison
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In case you’re wondering, ChatGPT can give a pretty good summary of what is going on in the UK in comparison to the USA in AI and biosciences. ChatGPT: Here’s how the USA and UK compare across AI and biosciences, focusing on company count, startups, and market capitalization:
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AI Startups Race to Capture Enterprise Market Before OpenAI
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There is a shrinking window for the Lovables and Replits and Bolts of the world to become the "AI builder" inside the enterprise before OpenAI and Anthropic come knocking on their doors. If I were an enterprise, I'd start with something like Replit Enterprise, grab 20-50 seats,
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Mistral’s New Reasoning Model Opens Innovation Opportunities
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this new reasoning model from Mistral looks cool
— dr. jack morris (@jxmnop) 10 juin 2025
it's especially exciting that because no one knows the best way to do RL, there is a lot of room for smaller players to innovate. this wasn't really the case when we spent a few years just making models bigger. https://t.co/Qa5yd5PdZVthis new reasoning model from Mistral looks cool it's especially exciting that because no one knows the best way to do RL, there is a lot of room for smaller players to innovate. this wasn't really the case when we spent a few years just making models bigger.
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Groq launches community forum with $100 API credits
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Got questions? We got answers and a chance for $100 in API credits. Join our new http://
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Agents Hack next Sunday: 10k€ prizes with Hugging Face, AnthropicAI, Accel
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Reminder: our Agents Hack is next Sunday ! It's shaping up to be the biggest ever hackathon on Agents in Paris, with over 10k€ in prizes, including large cash prizes for the top 3 teams. And now, @huggingface and @AnthropicAI are joined by @Accel : this will bring a bit of
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Lore Capital Leads Seed Round for Time Travel Startup
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Yes, based on my records, Lore Capital will be in the seed round for Time Travel.