Sam Altman to return as OpenAI CEO, Nvidia Q3 revenue up 206% YoY

OpenAI reached a deal for Sam Altman to return as CEO, with a new board chaired by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor. The new board consists of Bret, Larry Summers and current board member Adam D'Angelo. Independent directors Tasha McCauley and Helen Toner will leave the board, as will Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's chief scientist. - Link

Source: as part of the deal, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will not reclaim their board seats; Altman had pushed for more control; OpenAI retains its structure. - Link

OpenAI makes ChatGPT with voice now available to all free users. - Link

Nvidia reports Q3 revenue up 206% YoY to $18.12B, vs. $16.18B est., Data Center revenue up 279% YoY to $14.51B, and net income up 1,259% YoY to $9.2B. - Link

Binance and CZ plead guilty to federal charges as part of a $4.3B settlement with the US DOJ; charges include violating sanctions and anti-money laundering laws. - Link

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OpenAI Chaos Continues with Sunny Madra, David Sacks, and Jason. The three recap the chaotic past few days at OpenAI plus some immediate impacts from the fallout. David Sacks joins the show and explains why this situation is so unprecedented in Silicon Valley. - Watch

Tel Aviv-based generative AI startup AI21 raised a $53M Series C extension from Intel, Comcast, and others, taking the round to $208M and total raised to $336M. - Link

Sonos plans to make a long-awaited headphones push, launching a $400 model as soon as April, alongside on a video service, streaming device, and more. - Link

Anthropic debuts Claude 2.1, offering a context window of up to 200K tokens, or ~150K words, a claimed 50%+ increase in accuracy, new API integrations, and more. - Link

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