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☆ Startups Are Dying, and Venture Investors Aren’t Saving Them
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Startups Are Dying Amid Drought in Venture Funding
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Sequoia Capital Slashes Crypto Fund as It Downsizes Amid Startup Crunch
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Sequoia Partner Michael Moritz to Leave Venture Firm After 38 Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Venture Firms’ Deals in China Tech Investigated by Congress Panel
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Kate O Keeffe | Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Silicon Valley Money Men Are Buzzing About Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Angel Au-Yeung | Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Venture Firms Scale Back Megafunds in Strategy Shift
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Crypto Miners Seek a New Life in AI Boom After an Implosion in Mining
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Tom Dotan | Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Andreessen to Open London Office for Crypto Startups Amid Scrutiny in U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Venture-Fund Returns Show Worst Slump in More Than a Decade
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Venture-Fund Returns Suffer Amid Lower Startup Values
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Venture-capital-fund performance is languishing amid the broader downturn for tech startups, denting returns for university endowments, pensions and other investors that increased their exposure to the sector during the bull market. For the first time in more than a decade, returns for venture funds were negative for three consecutive quarters last year, according to research firm PitchBook Data, as investors finally began to mark down startups that had ballooned in value. Initial data for the fourth quarter also show a negative quarterly return.

☆ No Business Plan? No Problem. ChatGPT Spawns an Investor Gold Rush in AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Deepa Seetharaman | Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Before their startup had customers, a business plan or even a formal name, former Google AI researchers Niki Parmar and Ashish Vaswani were fielding interest from investors eager to back the next big thing in artificial intelligence. At Google, Ms. Parmar and Mr. Vaswani were among the co-authors of a seminal 2017 paper that helped pave the way for the boom in so-called generative AI. Earlier this year, only weeks after striking out on their own, they raised funds that valued their fledgling company—now called Essential AI—at around $50 million, people familiar with the company said.

☆ ChatGPT Fever Has Investors Pouring Billions Into AI Startups, No Business Plan Required
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Deepa Seetharaman | Berber Jin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Elon Musk Tries to Direct AI—Again
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Berber Jin | Deepa Seetharaman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

For at least a decade, Elon Musk has tried to steer the development of artificial intelligence—only to be outmaneuvered by rivals and former allies. He has now stepped up his efforts after the success of OpenAI, an organization he co-founded but then left after a power struggle. Mr. Musk has warned for years that poorly built artificial intelligence could have catastrophic effects on humanity. Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT became a viral sensation last November, Mr. Musk has denounced it as politically correct and warned it could lead AI to become too powerful for humans to control.

☆ Elon Musk Creates New Artificial Intelligence Company X.AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Berber Jin | Deepa Seetharaman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Elon Musk previously has warned about the risks from AI technology and advocated for its regulation. Elon Musk has created a new artificial intelligence company called X.AI Corp. that is incorporated in Nevada, according to a state filing. Mr. Musk is the only listed director of the company, and Jared Birchall, the director of Mr. Musk’s family office, is its secretary, according to the filing made last month. X.AI has authorized the sale of 100 million shares for the privately held company.

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▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

How the CEO of OpenAI Is Navigating Development and RiskSam Altman the CEO of startup OpenAI is navigating the challenges of being at the forefront of the most buzzed about technologies in decades. WSJ tech reporter Berber Jin joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss how he’s balancing the speed of development with the risks raised by artificial intelligence technology. Photo: Clara Mokri/WSJ

Sam Altman , the 37-year-old startup-minting guru at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom, has long dreamed of a future in which computers could converse and learn like humans. One of his clearest childhood memories is sitting up late in his bedroom in suburban St. Louis, playing with the Macintosh LC II he had gotten for his eighth birthday when he had the sudden realization: “Someday, the computer was going to learn to think,” he said.

☆ A Venture Capitalist Imagines What Generative AI Will Change
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-19 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

‘I think it’s going to creep into our lives in ways we never expected,’ says Martin Casado about generative AI. Martin Casado is a general partner at venture-capital company Andreessen Horowitz, where he focuses on enterprise investing. Mr. Casado started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Defense Department. His work, first as a researcher and now as an investor, gives him insight into the development of artificial-intelligence products and usage. Wall Street Journal reporter Berber Jin spoke with Mr. Casado at The Wall Street Journal’s CIO Network Summit about the current capabilities, and the possible future of, AI.

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▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Startups Look to Change After Silicon Valley Bank CollapseThe collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has rattled the startup sector that was so reliant on it. Now venture investors are combing through the aftermath, working to change their banking practices. WSJ venture-capital reporter Berber Jin joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss. Plus, do you have questions about generative AI? Leave us a voicemail at (415) 439-6482 or send us a voice recording at tnb@wsj.com.

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▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Silicon Valley Bank used financial sweeteners and strategic networking to attract both venture capitalists and their nascent tech companies. That strategy powered spectacular growth for decades—and left the sector extraordinarily vulnerable when the bank collapsed. SVB, founded in 1983, offered banking services to startups that often weren’t profitable, in some cases didn’t even have a product, and would otherwise have a hard time getting a line of credit or a loan from a larger bank. Venture-capital firms banked with SVB too, often encouraging their portfolio companies to do the same.

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