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dario's commitment to hating openai is seemingly stronger than his commitment to the values and principles of anthropic

2026-03-06 View on X

Anthropic

Dario Amodei says Anthropic plans to fight the DOD's risk designation in court, claims the DOD's letter has a “narrow scope”, and apologizes for his leaked memo

Yesterday (March 4) Anthropic received a letter from the Department of War confirming that we have been designated …

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dario's commitment to hating openai is seemingly stronger than his commitment to the values and principles of anthropic

2026-03-06 View on X

CNBC

Google and Amazon join Microsoft in saying they will keep working with Anthropic on non-defense projects after DOD designated Anthropic a supply chain risk

Google said it will continue offering Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work …

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We are pleased to announce the close of Thrive X. Exceeding $10 billion, Thrive X comprises $1 billion designated for early-stage investments and $9 billion designated for growth-stage investments. We do not view this as a milestone, but as a commitment to the long work ahead.

2026-02-18 View on X

Bloomberg

Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak

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We are pleased to announce the close of Thrive X. Exceeding $10 billion, Thrive X comprises $1 billion designated for early-stage investments and $9 billion designated for growth-stage investments. We do not view this as a milestone, but as a commitment to the long work ahead.

2026-02-17 View on X

Bloomberg

Josh Kushner's Thrive raised $10B+ for its tenth and largest fund, lifting its AUM to ~$50B; sources: it distributed 64% of capital raised during the 2021 peak

The backer of OpenAI, Stripe, SpaceX and Skims says it's taking “ride-or-die” approach to investing.

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We are excited to announce a strategic partnership between OpenAI and Thrive Holdings. Through our partnership, OpenAI will become an equity owner in Holdings, and collectively we will set out to deliver frontier technology for our customers. For decades, technology has

2025-12-01 View on X

New York Times

OpenAI takes a stake in Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings and says it will embed agents in its companies, which already include an accounting and an IT business

The move by the parent company of ChatGPT is meant to help imbue Thrive Holdings' accounting and I.T. services companies with artificial intelligence tools.

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“pro america” technologists openly supporting a chinese model that was trained off of leading US frontier models, with chips that likely violate export controls, and - according to their own terms of service - take US customer data back to china 🤔

2025-01-27 View on X

Bloomberg

DeepSeek's iOS app tops the App Store's Top Free Apps chart in the US, beating ChatGPT, stirring doubts in Silicon Valley about the strength of the US' AI lead

- App's lower-cost model upends premise for AI spending boom — Stocks of chip gear makers ASML and Advantest plunge

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We are humbled to announce the close of Thrive IX. Exceeding $5 billion, Thrive IX comprises $1 billion designated for early-stage investments and $4 billion designated for growth-stage investments. At Thrive we aim to be concentrated in both people and ideas. The ways in which [image]

2024-08-05 View on X

Wall Street Journal

Investor letter: Josh Kushner says Thrive Capital raised a $1B early-stage fund and a $4B late-stage fund, its largest-ever pair, after backing OpenAI in 2023

The fundraising reflects optimism over artificial intelligence despite the startup sector's broader struggles

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OpenAI has the potential to be one of the most consequential companies in the history of computing. @sama and @gdb possess a profound commitment to the company's integrity, and an unmatched ability to inspire and lead. We couldn't be more excited for them to come back to the...

2023-11-23 View on X

Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as chair, alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

4 key takeaways Jason Dorrier / Singularity Hub : OpenAI Mayhem: What We Know Now, Don't Know Yet, and What Could Be Next New York Times : Explaining OpenAI's Board Shake-Up CNBC :...

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OpenAI has the potential to be one of the most consequential companies in the history of computing. @sama and @gdb possess a profound commitment to the company's integrity, and an unmatched ability to inspire and lead. We couldn't be more excited for them to come back to the...

2023-11-23 View on X

The Information

Source: a breakthrough spearheaded by OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever enabled a model that could solve basic math problems, stoking excitement and concern

One day before he was fired by OpenAI's board last week, Sam Altman alluded to a recent technical advance the company …

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OpenAI has the potential to be one of the most consequential companies in the history of computing. @sama and @gdb possess a profound commitment to the company's integrity, and an unmatched ability to inspire and lead. We couldn't be more excited for them to come back to the...

2023-11-22 View on X

Axios

OpenAI reaches a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with an initial board of Bret Taylor as Chair alongside Larry Summers and Adam D'Angelo

OpenAI said late Tuesday that it had reached a deal in principle for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor.

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