💰OpenAI Vet Raises $2b

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Happy Thursday! What’s more powerful than building ChatGPT? Apparently, not building anything — yet. An ex-OpenAI exec just secured a $2B blank check to shape AI’s next chapter.

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Ex-OpenAI CTO raises $2B for a new AI venture

Thinking Machines, the new AI startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati (who stepped down last September), just raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation in the largest seed round in history. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Accel, and AMD, the company is working on a multimodal AI designed to interact with the world the way humans naturally do. While details are still under wraps, Murati says the first product will launch in the coming months with a major open source component. The massive investment highlights the intense race to build advanced AI and the sky-high value placed on elite talent (see Murati’s announcement).

Meta AI Bug Exposes Private User Conversations

Meta’s AI chatbot has had a rough start. Since launching its standalone app in April, users have unknowingly published private conversations to Meta platforms like Facebook, including sensitive queries about legal issues, family members, and more. Many likely did not realize they had opted in to public sharing (see examples). On top of that, it has now come out that a previously undisclosed security flaw allowed users to access other people’s AI chats by tweaking the URL. Security researcher Sandeep Hodkasia earned a $10,000 bounty for reporting the flaw, which Meta has since patched (read more).

Nvidia’s Chips for China, Promises for America

Nvidia is restarting sales of its H20 AI chips to China after a whirlwind of regulatory reversals by the U.S. government. The company expects to receive export licenses soon, begin deliveries, and launch a new “RTX Pro” chip for digital twin AI in smart factories and logistics. The H20, a less advanced chip designed to meet U.S. export restrictions, became a flashpoint in U.S.-China tech tensions after a temporary export ban earlier this year. That ban has now been lifted, with the agreement that Nvidia would support U.S. efforts to create jobs, strengthen domestic AI infrastructure, and maintain global AI leadership (see Nvidia’s announcement).

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🧠 NotebookLM Gets a Smarter Makeover: Google is evolving its AI-powered research and note-taking assistant, NotebookLM, into a discovery platform, now featuring curated content from respected authors, researchers, and publications around the world. This builds on its recent public sharing launch, with over 140,000 notebooks already shared (see Google’s announcement).

🦊 Grok’s New AI Companions Turn Heads: Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has launched customizable AI companions for “Super Grok” subscribers at $30/month. Early examples include Ani, a corseted anime girl, and Bad Rudy, a 3D fox creature. The pivot raises further questions about safety and emotional risks in AI-human interaction (see Musk’s announcement).

💻 New AI Browsers Take on Chrome and Safari: A wave of alternative web browsers is challenging Chrome and Safari’s dominance. Perplexity has launched Comet, a $200/month AI-powered browser for Max plan users. Meanwhile, Ladybird is building a browser entirely from scratch, while Opera is exploring agentic and mindfulness-focused experiences with its upcoming Neon and Air browsers.

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