#OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time

#OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s $6.6 billion fundraising round, the fifth Cybertruck recall in less than a year, and a neat project that’s Shazam-ing songs heard on a San Francisco street. Let’s get into it. OpenAI closed the largest VC round of all time this week. The startup…

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#OpenAI Raises .6B in Massive Funding Round

#OpenAI Raises $6.6B in Massive Funding Round

OpenAI has closed a massive $6.6 billion funding round that values the generative artificial intelligence giant at $157 billion. The company announced the news in a blog post Wednesday, writing that “the new funding will allow us to double down on our leadership in frontier AI research, increase compute capacity, and continue building tools that…

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#Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion

#Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion

Meta Connect 2024 was this week, showcasing new hardware and software to support two of the company’s big ambitions: AI and the metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced new Quest headsets, updates to Meta’s Llama AI model, and real-time video capabilities of Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The biggest reveal, though, was Orion, a true AR glasses…

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#Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

#Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into…

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