AWS is targeting corporate clients and will act as the “Switzerland” of LLMs, allowing businesses to access LLMs from Anthropic, Stability AI, and others; Amazon is aiming to become a leading neutral platform for generative AI - Link
Later-stage YC portfolio companies expressed disappointment in the firm shutting down its Continuity Fund; YC plans to replace former partners with newly elected board members for its Continuity-backed startups - Link
WSJ sources: ByteDance is attempting to attract Meta VR developers to move their apps away from Meta's platform over to its Pico headset by offering devs $15K-$20K per title - Link
WSJ sources: IBM is considering selling its weather unit for as much as $1B to streamline ops; IBM acquired The Weather Company's B2B, mobile, and cloud-based businesses for ~$2B in 2015 - Link
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Copy.ai Founder Paul Yacoubian joins Jason to break down the evolution and progress that OpenAI has made with its GPT LLMs (2:38) before discussing the radical shifts that AI will cause across most industries (20:46). They end the show with a demo of Copy.ai and the legal issues surrounding training datasets (48:54). - Link
FT sources: SoftBank has sold ~$7.2B worth of Alibaba shares so far this year after selling ~$29B last year; Softbank at one point owned 34% of Alibaba but plans to cut its stake to 3.8% - Link
Cybersyn, a NY-based data-as-a-service startup that makes public and proprietary economic data more accessible, came out of stealth mode and announced a $62.9M Series A led by Snowflake - Link
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill that would require children under 18 to attain adult permission to register for social media; the "Social Media Safety Act" will take effect in September - Link
ETH rallied above $2K for the first time since August as Ethereum's Shanghai update successfully went through without any issues - Link
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