Stripe’s multi-billion-dollar pursuit of AI model marketplace startup OpenRouter isn’t just creating one of the biggest AI acquisitions of the year; it’s minting venture capital firms’ speedy wins. Andreessen Horowitz and Menlo Ventures are poised to turn investments made less than two years ago into payouts worth nearly $2 billion combined if Stripe acquires the
This As They Told It essay is based on a conversation with Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, co-founder and CEO of water lily. It has been edited for length and clarity. As a child, I was fascinated by the universe and wanted to understand how the world worked. Science taught me that even the most important and
As AI chips become more powerful (and hotter), data centers are turning to liquid instead of air to cool servers. For newer AI systems, fans alone cannot remove enough heat. That change has created a new problem: preventing the coolant from degrading or becoming contaminated. Omen AI announced a $31 million funding round in June
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s toughest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before. On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new artificial intelligence model that powers Memo, its wheeled
I moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco because of a cold DM on X. I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles and, after attending college there, built my career in journalism across the country, first covering local news and then crypto. I liked my comfortable life with friends and family. Then in
Stephen Huang had spent decades building chips in Silicon Valley when the launch of ChatGPT convinced him that the market was ready for the AI chip company he had long considered building. By then, Huang had worked on MediaTek GPUs, Apple’s. Face ID technology and a team of artificial intelligence chips from Amazon. When ChatGPT
