Vinod Khosla has no doubts that humanity’s future with AI is bright. The Sun Microsystems co-founder turned prominent investor predicts that “the need to work will go away” almost entirely thanks to AI. “Almost all expertise, it doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about primary care physicians, mental health therapists, oncologists, structural engineers or accountants […]
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Vinod Khosla said the author of California’s recently vetoed AI bill, SB 1047, was clueless about the real dangers of AI, and not qualified to have an opinion on global national security issues. The comment about state Senator Scott Wiener was made during an on-stage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. “He’s clueless about the real
Data is pretty much everything when it comes to training AI systems, but accessing enough data to produce quality products that live up to their promise is a major challenge, even for companies with the deepest of pockets. This is a problem that Advex AI is setting out to address, using generative AI and synthetic
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Join Iliana Quiñonez, Director of North America Startups Customer Engineering, in a thought-provoking conversation with a visionary founder navigating the frontier of AI. Together, they’ll explore the pivotal growth milestones that define successful startups. This insightful discussion will uncover the transformative potential and power of AI, offering valuable insights for leaders looking to stay at
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Watch legendary investor Vinod Khosla’s electrifying fireside chat on the future of AI at Disrupt 2024. Khosla shares his perspective on the groundbreaking opportunities AI unlocks — along with the seismic disruptions it will unleash. Given Khosla’s penchant for straight talk and his proven ability over the years to see around corners, you’ll want to
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Sierra, the AI startup co-founded by OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor, has raised $175 million in a funding round that values the startup at $4.5 billion. Sierra, founded by Taylor and longtime Google exec Clay Bavor, focuses on selling AI-powered customer service chatbots to brands like WeightWatchers and Sirius XM. There’s an “agent” component, as well.
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Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Martin Casado has lived the experience that every founder dreams about. He invented a new technology that radically altered the way computer networks are built and sold his startup for $1.26 billion when it was barely out of stealth (the second startup he sold). He’s since gone on to have an
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A mysterious new image generation model is beating models from Midjourney, Black Forest Labs, and OpenAI on the crowdsourced Artificial Analysis benchmark. The model, which goes by the name “red_panda,” is around 40 Elo points ahead of the next-best-ranking model, Black Forest Labs’ Flux1.1 Pro, on Artificial Analysis’ text-to-image leaderboard. Artificial Analysis uses Elo, a
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Join us for an engaging panel session where Ziad Asghar, SVP & GM, XR, Qualcomm, will explore the transformative potential of on-device AI and XR technologies in creating a unified and immersive experience across all your personal tech devices. Discover how the integration of smartphones, smartwatches, AR glasses, and PCs can elevate your daily digital
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