2024-11-11
🤖 @sothebys just sold a $1.3m portrait of Alan Turing created by Ai-Da, a robot built to look like a gal with a bob. With 27 bids, ‘A.I. God’ topped its $120k low estimate by 10x. Novelty collecting has a fresh frontier, folks.
New York Times
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M
Ai-Da is the world's first ultra-realistic robot artist. She can draw, and is a performance artist. Sian Cain / The Guardian : First artwork painted by humanoid robot to sell at a...
2024-11-10
🤖 @sothebys just sold a $1.3m portrait of Alan Turing created by Ai-Da, a robot built to look like a gal with a bob. With 27 bids, ‘A.I. God’ topped its $120k low estimate by 10x. Novelty collecting has a fresh frontier, folks.
New York Times
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M
The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.
2021-11-21
The art market wasn't ready for revolution. A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution sold for $43.2m @Sothebys, but the winner is a private collector rather than an online group of cryptocurrency investors @ConstitutionDAO. w/@omarabdelb https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Wall Street Journal
ConstitutionDAO, which crowdfunded over $40M, loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to a $43.2M bid from Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin
2021-11-20
The art market wasn't ready for revolution. A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution sold for $43.2m @Sothebys, but the winner is a private collector rather than an online group of cryptocurrency investors @ConstitutionDAO. w/@omarabdelb https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Wall Street Journal
ConstitutionDAO, which crowdfunded over $40M, loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to a $43.2M bid from Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin
The 53-year-old billionaire paid $43.2 million for the historic document, plans to lend it to Crystal Bridges museum in Arkansas
2021-11-19
The art market wasn't ready for revolution. A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution sold for $43.2m @Sothebys, but the winner is a private collector rather than an online group of cryptocurrency investors @ConstitutionDAO. w/@omarabdelb https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ
Forbes
ConstitutionDAO loses Sotheby's US Constitution auction to an undisclosed winner's $43.2M bid, after crowdfunding over $40M
This story has been updated to reflect the full price that the Constitution sold for after all auction fees. — A rare copy of the U.S. Constitution sold …