Kalley Huang

You know what they say: when it rains, it pours. OpenAI employees experienced that firsthand yesterday, when they received abrupt news of three major leadership departures.

Speakers at The Information's 2024 WTF conference. Left to right: Liz Reid, VP and Head of Search at Google; Jennifer Tejada, CEO and Chairperson at PagerDuty; and Daniela Amodei, President and co-founder of Anthropic. Photos by Erin Beach for the Information.

Earlier today, we published our Generative AI Takeover List of 78 startups that could be acquisition targets. The list includes companies that develop their own models or robots, haven’t raised funding in at least two years, or both. These companies are most likely to face a cash crunch and be open to takeover offers.

Over the past week, artificial intelligence developers have posted rave reviews on X and Reddit about the quality of Nemotron, a series of large language models Nvidia built using Meta Platforms’ open-source Llama model.

As Meta Platforms tries to keep up with OpenAI in developing artificial intelligence, the Facebook owner is working on a search engine that crawls the web to provide conversational answers about current events to people using its Meta AI chatbot.

OpenAI has hired Caitlin Kalinowski, who previously led hardware for augmented reality glasses at Meta Platforms, to lead robotics and consumer hardware, she said in a post on X Monday. A spokesperson for OpenAI confirmed her hire.Kalinowski said she will “initially focus on OpenAI’s robotics work and partnerships to help bring AI into the physical world and unlock its benefits for

We don’t know how Donald Trump and his administration will handle open-source artificial intelligence, as Stephanie wrote on Wednesday. But AI developers in the U.S. should expect to benefit from easier access to more energy sources and face fresh uncertainty in the AI chip industry, policy experts said on a call with subscribers to The Information on Wednesday.

The text-based app is growing rapidly outside the U.S. and gets a boost from Meta's other apps

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