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20 February 2024 6h25

Building my first company was not easy, especially in one of the most competitive spaces. But messages like this never get old. It makes the 80+ hour weeks obsessing over the little details all worth it.

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20 February 2024

SoftBank AI Chip, Reddit Deal, and New AI Tools Today

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@therundownai

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19 February 2024 15h15

Top stories in AI today: -SoftBank founder builds an AI chip company
-Reddit inks major AI data deal
-How to use ChatGPT and Zapier to prepare for meetings
-Mistral stealth drops demo of ‘next’ model -6 new AI tools & 4 new AI jobs Read more: http://
therundown.ai/p/a-new-100b-n
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Mistral releases new AI model ‘next’ rivaling GPT-4

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19 February 2024 6h02

French AI startup Mistral quietly released a new model called ‘next’ in testing. Early users are reporting capabilities meet or surpass GPT-4 in early evaluations. The stealth drop could be a milestone moment for open source if early tests hold up.

Sam Altman’s $7T AI Venture and Project Izanagi Merger Discussion

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19 February 2024 6h02

$100 Billion is an insane amount of money, but almost seems puny compared to Sam's $7T. While Project Izanagi and Sam Altman's venture are seperate, the two have reportedly spoken about potentially ‘joining forces’.

SoftBank launches Project Izanagi: $100B AI chip venture

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19 February 2024 6h02

SoftBank founder and billionaire Masayoshi Son is reportedly looking to raise $100B to launch ‘Project Izanagi’.

The AI chip venture aims to compete with NVIDIA and push towards AGI.

$30B is potentially from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern backers. pic.twitter.com/5bpX6pDcAH
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 19 février 2024

SoftBank founder and billionaire Masayoshi Son is reportedly looking to raise $100B to launch ‘Project Izanagi’. The AI chip venture aims to compete with NVIDIA and push towards AGI. $30B is potentially from SoftBank and $70B from Middle Eastern backers.

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Sequoia Supports Open Source with FastAPI Fellow Program

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19 February 2024 5h09

It's wonderful that @sequoia is putting this together to support Open Source to benefit everyone. Thank you @roelofbotha
! Am also a huge fan of your first Open Source Fellow @tiangolo — I was literally using his FastAPI framework today to deploy an app!

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Fund 2 Dynamics: Average Rates and Portfolio Growth Analysis

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@andreasklinger

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19 February 2024 0h07

To understand context here a bit:
Whats the average rate of funds doing a fund 2 and whats the portfolio size increase? But there is for sure some “brand effect” – one of the reasons people logo-hunt, isnt it?