Articles by Tim Fernholz
OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after just nine months on the job, tapping Wiz president and chief operating officer Dali Rajic to take on frontier labβs top sales job.
The...
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropicβs Fable LLM while usi...
The impressive capabilities of Chinese lab Moonshotβs Kimi K3, the biggest open-weight large language model, has kicked off a debate that conflates two things: the economic possibilities of American...
Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first people to do the math and put a number on the implications of Silicon Valleyβs titanic spend on AI infrastructure.
In 2023, he was r...
Vinton Cerf will step down from his role as Googleβs chief internet evangelist next week, marking the conclusion of one of the most influential careers in technology history.
While speaking via vi...
Elon Muskβs legal effort to dismantle OpenAI may hinge on how its for-profit subsidiary enhances or detracts from the frontier labβs founding mission of ensuring that humanity benefits from artifi...
In late August 2017, key figures at OpenAI (then a small nonprofit research lab) gathered to discuss how they would create a for-profit to commercialize its technology and raise the funds needed to rοΏ½...
When do we take AI doomers seriously?
Thatβs a key subtext of Elon Muskβs attempt to shut down OpenAIβs for-profit AI business. His attorneys argue that the organization was set up as a charit...
OpenAI and Anthropic have been on the warpath lately against third-party efforts to train new AI models by prompting their publicly accessible chatbots and APIs, a process known as βdistillation.β...
Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer interοΏ½...
