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Alvin Foo

@alvinfoo
9 posts
2026-01-07
xAI, Elon Musk's AI company behind the Grok chatbot announced that it has raised a massive $20 billion in a Series E funding round! 🔥 Congrats @elonmusk and the entire team at @xai!!
2026-01-07 View on X
xAI

xAI raised a $20B Series E, exceeding its $15B targeted round size, with participation from Valor, Nvidia, and others, and says Grok 5 is currently in training

xAI is rapidly accelerating its progress in building advanced AI.  —  xAI completed its upsized Series E funding round …

2024-04-15
This is the price for lack of innovation in iPhone and the rapid improvement of other smartphone makers.
2024-04-15 View on X
IDC

Global smartphone shipments grew 7.8% YoY to 289.4M in Q1 2024; iPhone fell 9.6% YoY, more than all top brands, Xiaomi grew 33.8% YoY, and Samsung retook first

Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker , global smartphone shipments increased 7.8% year over year to 289.4 million units in the first quarter of 2024 (1Q24).

2023-04-11
“Hubris, incompetence, and greed” led to the implosion of crypto exchange FTX. #FTX lacked basic accounting and financial controls and was under the command of a small group of individuals who “stifled dissent.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2023-04-11 View on X
@molly0xfff

[Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company's control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage

Document #1242, Attachment #1 Mark Timmis / Coinmonks : Curious Cryptos' Commentary 10th April 2023 — FTX FTX : FTX Debtors Release Report on FTX Group's Control Failures Martin Yo...

2023-04-10
“Hubris, incompetence, and greed” led to the implosion of crypto exchange FTX. #FTX lacked basic accounting and financial controls and was under the command of a small group of individuals who “stifled dissent.” https://www.businessinsider.com/ ...
2023-04-10 View on X
@molly0xfff

[Thread] A look at a report from FTX debtors on the company's control failures, like awful recordkeeping, lying about using cold wallets, and sloppy key storage

The new team in charge of the FTX bankruptcy have released their first interim report on the failures of control at FTX and related businesses. It's 43 pages long, let's go through...

2023-02-28
Elon Musk is creating a new AI lab to compete against #ChatGPT. He's repeatedly criticized ChatGPT as being “woke”. More broadly, Elon Musk has expressed disappointment at #OpenAI's development as an organization. #generativeAi #AI https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
2023-02-28 View on X
The Information

Sources: Musk approached AI researchers in recent weeks about forming a research lab to make a ChatGPT rival; Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 before cutting ties

Elon Musk has approached artificial intelligence researchers in recent weeks about forming a new research lab to develop …

2022-07-14
The golden era for tech workers in China had peaked in 2020 and has since gone downhill, this is the new normal. I m glad to have arrived in China early and experienced the phenomena growth, those were the amazing years that will unlikely be repeated. https://restofworld.org/...
2022-07-14 View on X
Rest of World

China's crackdown and economic downturn have led to massive layoffs in its tech sector, but some workers are relieved to exit the industry's “996” work schedule

Viola Zhou / Rest of World : Tweets: @vickiturk , @cengizyar , and @alvinfoo Tweets: Vicki Turk / @vickiturk : A highly-paid tech job was the dream for China's young workers. Now,...

2022-02-21
These are the world's largest company by revenue and #Apple is on track to become the first trillion dollar company by revenue in the nearest future. Via @profgalloway insightful piece on #Apple at https://www.profgalloway.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-21 View on X
No Malice

How Apple can hit $1T in revenue by 2030, from $366B in 2021, using its hardware expertise, high consumer trust, capital reserves, and more to enter new markets

2022-02-20
These are the world's largest company by revenue and #Apple is on track to become the first trillion dollar company by revenue in the nearest future. Via @profgalloway insightful piece on #Apple at https://www.profgalloway.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-20 View on X
No Mercy / No Malice

How Apple may get to $1T in revenue by 2030, from $366B in 2021, using its hardware expertise, high consumer trust, and capital reserves to enter new markets

Round numbers have no inherent meaning — they're a consequence of 10 fingers.  But they provide a benchmark, a way to focus our observations.

2020-07-21
The IPO could peg Ant Group at more than US$200 billion, more valuable than state-owned China Construction Bank and just shy of Bank of America with @JackMa having about 50% of the voting rights. Via @Alipay @AlibabaGroup @antgrouptaoli https://amp.scmp.com/...
2020-07-21 View on X
Bloomberg

Jack Ma's Ant Group, payments processor for Alibaba, plans a dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, sources say seeking a valuation of $200B+

What you need to know about the dual IPO Paddy Baker / CoinDesk : Alibaba's Ant Group Plans Dual IPOs at Possible $200B Valuation Fortune : Why the world's most valuable unicorn is...