Console, which uses AI agents in Slack to resolve lower-level IT support tickets, raised a $23M Series A led by DST Global Partners and Thrive Capital
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media : X: @alexrkonrad , @andrei_serban , @alexrkonrad , and @alexrkonrad X: Alex Konrad / @alexrkonrad : Exclusive: Console has raised a $23M Series A round from DST Global a...
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...
A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging in response to the rapid progress of models, including FrontierMath, Humanity's Last Exam, and RE-Bench
Despite their expertise, AI developers don't always know what their most advanced systems are capable of—at least, not at first. X: @tharin_p and @tharin_p X: @tharin_p : My latest piece for @TIME con...
Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $43M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $285M valuation
building @lm_braswell : I met @_dan_lee_ at @scale_AI years ago. Dan always impressed me with his ability to focus on the customer. That focus led him & the @JoinNooks team to bring AI to sales teams ...
A profile of Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, which has 100K+ data labeling contractors, as he looks to expand to higher-margin AI tools to sustain growth
Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal : X: @natolambert , @morqon , @william_fitz , @garybasin , and @deliprao X: Nathan Lambert / @natolambert : Confirmation of one of my points of analysis for the futur...
A profile of data labeler Scale AI, which has a $249M contract with the US DoD and was the first AI company to have an LLM deployed on a classified network
the tech behind chatbots such as ChatGPT — deployed on a classified network after it signed a deal with the Army's XVIII Airborne Corps.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Charles Rollet / @charlesr...
How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the 2020s AI boom, causing a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the 1990s dot-com fever
it's chock full of historical perspective and excellent details RE the last several months of crazy— by @BradStone. https://twitter.com/... @scale_ai : “There are a lot of AI tourists pretending to be...
How a seminal 2017 paper by Google researchers laid the groundwork for the AI hype cycle, resulting in a Silicon Valley frenzy not seen since the dot-com boom
In late May, 300 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, journalists and assorted self-described thought leaders crammed into Shack15 … LinkedIn: Peter Leyden . Tweets: @business , @iporollo , @bw , @dina...
A profile of Alexandr Wang, a co-founder of Scale AI, which outsources ~240K workers via its subsidiary Remotasks to label the data used to train AI systems
hundreds of thousands of them — powering AI. https://www.forbes.com/... https://twitter.com/... @ycombinator : “There's two things I deeply believe. One, AI is a huge force for good, and it needs to b...
Many Silicon Valley startups are offering virtual fall internships, as college students consider taking a gap semester or year to avoid online classes
“like a prison,” some students are saying. Startups are hoping to turn that dismal future into a hiring opportunity https://www.bloomberg.com/... Fr. Robert R. Ballecer / @padresj : Even before COVID,...