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☆ Generative AI startup Recraft just raised $12 million from Khosla Ventures and Nat Friedman with this 22-slide pitch deck
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewRecraft, a startup that aims to vastly improve the quality of AI-generated images, has raised $12 million in fresh funds. "We are building some unique things using technology that no one else has," Anna Veronika Dorogush, Recraft's CEO and founder told Business Insider. Recraft has brought in $12 million from Khosla Ventures and former GitHub CEO, Nat Friedman, with participation from RTP Global, Abstract VC, Basis Set Ventures, Elad Gil, and other angel investors. The startup originally wanted to raise $10 million but increased the round size due to being heavily oversubscribed, Dorogush said. AdvertisementThe company hasn't spent money on marketing, relying on word-of-mouth referrals to accrue more than 350,000 users, Dorogush added.

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☆ After big tech layoffs, Silicon Valley may have lost its monopoly on workers
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Rachel Curry | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

According to Dice's 2023 Tech Sentiment Report, 60% of tech workers in general are interested in leaving their jobs in 2024, which is up from 52% the year prior. According to Art Zeile, CEO of tech careers marketplace Dice, tech workers are most in demand in the aerospace, consulting, health care, financial services and education industries. Zeile says it's in spaces like these — non-tech enterprises with major tech branches — that tech workers can find better work-life balance and more stability than the tech leaders can provide. In corporate America outside of big tech, he said, "There is more of a dedication to making sure that the project gets fulfilled." Tech job growth geographicallyUltimately, Zeile says recent layoffs have induced a jarring disruption in two decades of growth in big tech.

Persons: Justin Sullivan, Jeff Spector, Spector, I'm, CBRE, Art Zeile, Zeile Organizations: Google, Tech, Meta, Microsoft, MGM Studios Locations: Mountain View , California, Silicon Valley, Seattle, America, India

☆ Microsoft tops Apple as world's most valuable public company
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft ended Friday's U.S. trading session as the most valuable publicly traded company, surpassing Apple after briefly topping the iPhone maker during intraday trading Thursday. Apple said Thursday that former Vice President Al Gore will retire from the company's board next month after serving as a director since 2003. Microsoft, meanwhile, got a vote of confidence Thursday after discussing its artificial intelligence capabilities to developers at an event in San Francisco. The analysts have the equivalent of a buy rating on Microsoft shares. Apple had been the most valuable public company for over a year, following brief periods when that distinction was held by Saudi Aramco and Microsoft.

Persons: James Cordwell, Apple, Al Gore, Piper Sandler Organizations: Microsoft, Apple, Saudi Aramco Locations: Atlantic, San Francisco

☆ Leaked presentation reveals how Microsoft built one of its top AI products, from cherry picking outputs to pitching government clients
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-10 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

GPU supply problemsOriginally, Microsoft was working on its own machine-learning models for security use cases, according to the presentation by Microsoft Security Research partner Lloyd Greenwald. AdvertisementThe pitchThe pitch centered around the benefits of mostly using a single universal AI model rather than many individual models. "Today, our Early Access Program customers regularly share their satisfaction with the latest version of Security Copilot." He also mentioned ServiceNow connectors, and information from Microsoft Defender, the company's antivirus software, along with other sources of security data. It described Security Copilot as a "closed-loop learning system," that gets feedback from users and improves over time.

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☆ GitHub execs say coders are rushing to use its AI coding tool despite copyright concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-19 | by ( Rosalie Chan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Last month, the company launched new updates to Copilot Chat, a chat function that can help developers troubleshoot bugs or answer coding questions. Copyright risksIn September, Microsoft announced a policy that it would provide indemnification coverage to copyright claims related to its AI-powered Copilot tools, including GitHub Copilot. If customers don't want their code included in training sets for AI, they can make their GitHub code bases private. "That's part of listening to the community and trying to understand the feedback and how can we help," McKinley said. "Others are experimenting with AI," Shani said.

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☆ LinkedIn shelved planned move to Microsoft Azure, opting to keep physical data centers
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-14 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

LinkedIn has set aside an effort to relocate its data center technology out of its physical facilities and into Microsoft's Azure cloud, according to people familiar with the matter. A LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed that the Microsoft subsidiary changed direction on Blueshift and said LinkedIn continues to use Azure. Under the leadership of Nadella, Microsoft has moved some of its acquired assets to Azure, including GitHub and Minecraft developer Mojang. More recently, Azure has gained attention because of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI, which uses Azure infrastructure for running the large language models powering ChatGPT and other products. Microsoft said in October that third-quarter revenue from Azure and other cloud services grew 29%, while LinkedIn revenue was up 8%.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Mohak Shroff, Raghu Hiremagalur, we've, Hiremagalur, Nadella, OpenAI, LinkedIn's Karin Kimbrough Organizations: Microsoft, LinkedIn, Amazon Web Services, CNBC, Nadella, Wired, OpenAI Locations: Blueshift, OpenAI

☆ How a violent 1800s uprising against machines could foreshadow our future with AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Katie Notopoulos | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

AdvertisementI asked Merchant for his perspective on how history informs how we should think about AI and labor. AdvertisementTake the clothworkers: skilled weavers made really high quality cloth and framework knitters made stockings that were nice and durable. Just about everyone loses except the factory owners, who profit from churning out more shoddily made stuff at a rate that the skilled workers can't compete with. AdvertisementBased on your understanding of history, what are the chances that AI helps people by lowering the gap between lower skilled and higher skilled workers? Now, as then, the vast, vast majority of the time, AI absolutely cannot replicate a good writer or worker's output.

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☆ GitLab shares soar as developer-tools company posts first adjusted operating profit
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

GitLab stock jumped as much as 18% in extended trading on Monday after the developer-tools software maker announced fiscal third-quarter results and quarterly guidance that impressed Wall Street. Here's how the company did, compared with consensus of estimates among analysts polled by LSEG, formerly known as Refinitiv:Earnings: 9 cents per share, adjusted, vs. loss of 1 cent per share expected. 9 cents per share, adjusted, vs. loss of 1 cent per share expected. Revenue: $149.7 million, vs. $141.5 million expected. Excluding the after-hours move, GitLab stock is up 16% so far this year, while the S&P 500 stock index has gained 19% over the same period.

Persons: Wall, GitLab, Brian Robins, Sid Sijbrandij, GitLab's, Robins, Sijbrandij, LSEG Organizations: LSEG, Revenue, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, AWS

☆ AI Helps Unskilled Employees on the Job, Hurts Experienced Workers
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Aki Ito | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

The numbers have prompted AI optimists to predict an economic boom and AI pessimists to worry about a future of fewer jobs. The question isn't how much AI helps out around the office but who it helps — and why. AI, in other words, is raising overall productivity by narrowing the gap between high performers and low performers. Researchers tasked people to write a short story, with and without the help of an AI tool for generating ideas. A few enterprising employers will go all in on hiring job candidates with less experience and boosting their performance with AI.

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☆ Here's what AI startup founders say recent grads should know to land a job in the field
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AI startup CEOs gave Business Insider their top tips for recent grads. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The speed at which the industry moves can be daunting for anyone trying to land a job in AI . Here are the top tips that founders and CEOs of fast-growing AI startups have for recent grads who want to jump into the field.

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☆ The world is splitting between those who use ChatGPT to get better, smarter, richer — and everyone else
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

There is growing evidence that artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT can make you more efficient and capable at work. And the effect will be particularly noticeable if no one else in the company is using AI in this way. All said that outsourcing time-consuming, small jobs to AI tools freed up their time. AI at work still needs careful handlingThere are obvious caveats to using AI to do your work for you. Some companies also have specific rules for AI tools due to fears around copyright or data security.

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As Open AI employees celebrated the return of CEO Sam Altman with a five-alarm office party , OpenAI software engineer Steven Heidel was busy publicly rebuffing overtures from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Heidel was one of more than 700 OpenAI employees who's threatened exodus halted a would-be mutiny at one of Silicon Valley's most important AI companies. He was previously a scientist at Facebook AI Research and worked as a member of Google Brain under supervision of Prof. Geoffrey Hinton and Ilya Sutskever. Alec Radford: Radford was hired in 2016 from a small AI company he founded in his dorm room. Tao Xu : technical staff, worked on GPT4 and WhisperChristine McLeavey : technical staff, with contributions to music-related productsChristina Kim : technical staffChristopher Hesse : technical staffHeewoo Jun : technical staff, researchAlex Nichol : technical staff, researchWilliam Fedus: technical staff, researchIlge Akkaya: technical staff, researchVineet Kosaraju : technical staff, researchHenrique Ponde de Oliveira Pinto : technical staffAditya Ramesh : technical staff, developed DALL-E and DALL-E 2Prafulla Dhariwal : research scientistHunter Lightman : technical staffHarrison Edwards : research scientistYura Burda : machine language researcherTyna Eloundou : technical staff, researchPamela Mishkin : researcherCasey Chu : researcherDavid Dohan : technical staff, researchAidan Clark : researcherRaul Puri : research scientistLeo Gao : technical staff, researchYang Song : technical staff, researchGiambattista ParascandoloTodor Markov : Machine learning researcherNick Ryder : technical staff

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☆ AI startups struggle to not become OpenAI's 'roadkill:' 'When you step on the court with Jordan, you don't try to beat him at his game'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Darius Rafieyan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

More than 300 AI founders and investors gathered earlier this week in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood for the 2nd Cerebral Valley AI Summit, co-hosted by the independent journalist Eric Newcomer and AI gaming startup Volley. Some called it an " extinction event for other AI startups ." "OpenAI can bully everyone, they can bully the talent, they can bully the competition, they can bully the term sheets. "When you step on the court with Jordan, you don't try to beat him at his game. During his panel, Warner was asked about those who took to social network X, formerly Twitter, to proclaim the death of nascent AI startups.

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☆ The billionaire's calendar
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

What the rest of us consider small talk at work, Gen Zers have rebranded as "corporate flirting." In today's big story, we're unpacking all the far-flung places and high-end events billionaires visit and attend throughout the year. But by early 2024, there will likely be more Gen Zers working full-time than baby boomers. It commemorates when the "Guinness World Records" book became the best-selling book of all time in 2004. It commemorates when the "Guinness World Records" book became the best-selling book of all time in 2004.

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☆ Microsoft announces custom AI chip that could compete with Nvidia
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

A custom-built rack for the Maia 100 AI Accelerator and its "sidekick" inside a thermal chamber at a Microsoft lab in Redmond, Washington. The first, its Maia 100 artificial intelligence chip, could compete with Nvidia's highly sought-after AI graphics processing units. In addition to designing the Maia chip, Microsoft has devised custom liquid-cooled hardware called Sidekicks that fit in racks right next to racks containing Maia servers. Moving from GPUs to AWS Trainium AI chips can be more complicated than migrating from Intel Xeons to Gravitons, though. WATCH: Nvidia notches tenth straight day of gains, driven by new AI chip announcement

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☆ An Amazon team is racing to launch new AI products similar to those from Microsoft GitHub, leaked email shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Amazon cloud VP sent a motivational email to his team last week after GitHub, the developer code-sharing site owned by Microsoft, held an artificial intelligence event and released a bunch of new products. In it, he noted the products announced at the GitHub Universe developer conference were similar to what his team is currently working on. One of the big products announced at GitHub Universe was the general availability of its Copilot Chat, a chatbot that helps answer developer questions and identify bugs. AWS, meanwhile, has announced products like Bedrock, a service that makes foundation models more easily accessible, and CodeWhisperer, a coding assistant app. The new chatbot for AWS developers is one example of that strategy, as it's intended to guide developers towards more AWS services when they are building AI products, the person familiar with the project told BI.

Persons: GitHub, Deepak Singh, Singh, They've, Google's Bard, it's Organizations: Microsoft, Business, Amazon, Services, GitHub, BI, AWS

☆ What to expect from Microsoft's AI-focused conference this week — and why the stock could move higher
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Morgan Chittum | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Starting in-person Tuesday in Seattle and livestreamed from Wednesday, Microsoft's "Ignite" event consists of three days of product announcements and various keynotes from technology executives. At the Club, we'll be looking for initial evidence of a return on investment (ROI) for Microsoft's AI products — particularly the company's recently launched AI assistant, 365 Copilot . MSFT YTD mountain Microsoft (MSFT) year-to-date performance Piper Sandler reiterated the Club's take that evidence of early adoption around Copilot, along with ROI, could be bullish for Microsoft. Bottom line Microsoft stock, up more than 54% year-to-date, has surged in 2023 on the generative AI boom. If the Ignite conference provides further evidence that Microsoft's large bet on AI is paying off, it would likely be positive for the stock.

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☆ Generative AI still mostly experimental, say executives
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Katie Paul | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

NEW YORK, Nov 9 (Reuters) - One year after the debut of ChatGPT created a global sensation, leaders of business, government and civil society said at the Reuters NEXT conference in New York that generative AI technology is still mostly in an experimental stage, with limited exceptions. Aguirre cited self-driving cars as an example of a technology struggling to make the transition to full deployment. “I’ve observed many generative AI applications that are in production while other customers are just beginning their journey.”One way generative AI was already being deployed widely, highlighted by speakers across industries, was to write computer code. Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University, said generative AI was error-prone in coding just like in other areas, but that the problem was less of a hindrance in the tech sector because programmers knew how to troubleshoot it. Companies should move slowly and deliberately when integrating the technology into uses where accuracy matters, executives emphasized.

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☆ Microsoft's GitHub announces Copilot assistant that can learn about companies' private code
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft -owned GitHub on Wednesday introduced a more expensive Copilot assistant for developers inside companies that can explain and provide recommendations about internal source code. Last month Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told analysts on a conference call that GitHub Copilot had accumulated 1 million paid users. The new GitHub Copilot Enterprise will cost more than double the business offering, at $39 per person per month. On GitHub's website, people with Copilot Enterprise licenses can choose repositories to fine-tune Copilot on proprietary code. From there, they can ask GitHub's Copilot chatbot about elements of existing code and suggest lines of code in development environments.

Persons: Thomas Dohmke, GitHub, Satya Nadella, GitHub Copilot, GitHub's, Stephen O'Grady, Amazon's CodeWhisperer, Dohmke, Gartner, Copilot, O'Grady, Piper Sandler Organizations: Microsoft, Amazon, Services, CNBC, Copilot Enterprise, Google, Gartner, Enterprise, Piper, Copilot Locations: Toronto, San Francisco

☆ Voice cloning AI startup ElevenLabs was worth $100 million five months ago. Now, sources say it's about to hit $1 billion.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Callum Burroughs | Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

ElevenLabs, a generative AI startup focused on voice, is in talks to raise capital in a deal that would catapult its valuation to $1 billion. It is unclear as yet whether Sequoia would invest alongside Andreessen Horowitz or if they are competing with one another. Five months on, the prospective new round will increase that valuation 10 times over to $1 billion, three sources said. ElevenLabs and Andreessen Horowitz did not respond to a request for comment. Bruce Reed, President Biden's AI chief, said that voice cloning "keeps me up at night," in an interview with Politico.

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a surprise appearance at OpenAI's developer conference on Monday with a message: Come build with us. 1 is to build the best system, so that you can build the best models and then make that all available to developers," Nadella told OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, on stage at DevDay in San Francisco. Azure has become Microsoft's key growth engine in recent years and has helped revive the company's brand among developers. Microsoft boasts an exclusive license on OpenAI's GPT-4 large language model that can generate human-like prose in response to a few words of text. Developers who are building on top of OpenAI can look to the Azure Marketplace to "get to market rapidly," Nadella said.

Persons: Satya Nadella, Nadella, Sam Altman, OpenAI, ChatGPT, It's, Altman Organizations: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, OpenAI's, Street, Windows Locations: DevDay, San Francisco

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☆ Microsoft releases big Windows 11 update with Copilot AI assistant included
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Microsoft on Tuesday said it started rolling out the next major update to its Windows 11 PC operating system. Windows 11 now represents about 24% of desktop PCs, according to StatCounter data, while Windows 10, which will be supported until October 2025, controls almost 72% of the market. After that, Windows 11, which debuted in 2021, could become more popular. Copilot is probably the biggest part of this year's Windows 11 release. Here's a list of some of the other new features of the Windows 11 2023 Update, also known as 23H2:A virtual video editor.

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☆ Microsoft could be having its 'iPhone moment' this week that sends the stock soaring over time, says Piper Sandler
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Microsoft may be on the brink of a watershed moment equivalent to Apple 's 2007 iPhone launch, according to Piper Sandler. MSFT YTD mountain Microsoft shares since the start of 2023 The comments from Bracelin come as the software giant readies to launch its Copilot artificial intelligence subscription service offering Wednesday. The tool, first announced in July, adds AI capabilities to Office product for an additional $30 a month. While AI investments only garnered half a billion in revenue last quarter, Microsoft's broad AI ambitions could add $10 billion in revenue to by 2025 and $100 billion longer term, according to Bracelin's projections. This "first-mover AI advantage," coupled with expectations for a reacceleration in double-digit top-line growth, support the current premium for shares.

Persons: Piper Sandler, Brent Bracelin, Bracelin, — CNBC's Michael Bloom Organizations: Microsoft, Apple, MSFT Locations: That's

☆ Microsoft jumped headfirst into the AI race. Now it's cashing in.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft's early investment in AI may already be paying off. AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter heavily investing in OpenAI after the launch of ChatGPT, Microsoft sparked something of an AI arms race among its big tech rivals. Microsoft's success had a lot to do with the success of Copilot, Rotibi said. "Microsoft has captured the zeitgeist of kind of the AI and generative AI with copilot," she said. Despite Microsoft''s success, Rotibi said it was still too early to call a winner in the AI race or say whether Google was falling behind.

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