YC's Garry Tan launches “Garry's List”, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting “moderate/pragmatic” political candidates and pro-growth policies in California
New operation is part-PAC, part-blog, part incubator for Silicon Valley politics — and latest entry in big-money network
ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raised a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan
- ATG cofounders Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran raised $15 million to build an AI wealth strategist. — Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan led ATG's latest round.
ATG, which is developing the AI-powered wealth strategist app Autonomous, emerges from stealth and raises a $15M pre-seed led by Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan
- ATG cofounders Dillon Erb and Daniel Kobran raised $15 million to build an AI wealth strategist. — Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan led ATG's latest round.
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit , @besttrousers , @...
Source: OpenAI authorized up to $10.3B in shares for sale, but only $6.6B was sold, which insiders see as a sign of staff confidence and strong investor demand
OpenAI's $500B valuation, Meta's privacy backlash and more Ankush Das / Analytics India Magazine : OpenAI Hits $500 Billion, Surpasses SpaceX as World's Most Valuable Startup MarketWatch : OpenAI join...
GPT-5 hands-on: it exudes competence but doesn't feel like a dramatic leap ahead of other LLMs, and the pricing is aggressively competitive with other providers
And It Changes Everything Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution : GPT-5, a short and enthusiastic review GPT-5 : GPT-5 — Our hands-on review of OpenAI's newest model based on weeks of testing — The Ve...
Margit Wennmachers, who has shaped a16z's marketing approach since joining in 2010, is stepping down and “graduating” from operating partner to partner emeritus
they're hiring some talented and influential people. Gina Bianchini / @ginab : @wennmachers @a16z You were impressive the first time Liz Hamren introduced us. You seemed like a natural introduction to...
Pano AI, which uses AI and computer vision to offer active wildfire detection, raised a $44M Series B led by Giant Ventures, bringing its total funding to $89M
While wildfire detection is certainly a growth industry, every application of computer vision technology (detection like this has been possible for a long time) is not in need of its own startup, esp....
Source: Accel, which owns 18.5% of Scale AI after investing a total of ~$350M, expects to gain over $2.5B from Meta's $14.3B investment in the startup
Possibly The Biggest Private AI Deal This Year Scale AI : Scale AI Announces Next Phase of Company's Evolution Julie Bort / TechCrunch : New details emerge on Meta's $14.3B deal for Scale Daniel Levin...
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months”, its first open-weight model since GPT-2
just look at the “T” in ChatGPT, which comes from the Transformer architecture openly shared by Google. Then came Garry Tan / @garrytan : Open weights 🚀 Alexander Doria / @dorialexander : Ok, this one...