Clay, a secret weapon for Anthropic and OpenAI, boosts valuation to $1.3 billion
Software startup Clay took years to figure out its product. Now it’s growing fast, with tens of millions in revenue and a valuation that’s doubled in six months.
Alex Konrad, Forbes Staff
Anthropic’s pending $60 billion valuation will make all seven cofounders billionaires
The AI startup behind Claude, the rival product to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is raising $2 billion in fresh funding, sources confirmed to Forbes.
Why Elon Musk’s DOGE is attracting young coders and tech CEOs alike
The incoming Trump agency for cutting government excess is seeking 100 full-time hires in the nation’s capital, sources tell Forbes, which spoke to some early applicants.
Notion and Stripe trust this year-old startup to make sure their AI tools work
Ankur Goyal’s year-old startup is popular with Airtable, Brex, Notion, Stripe and others building AI products. The LLM Ops startup offers evaluations, logging and more.
Talent startup Andela, once valued at $1.5 billion, taps Uber exec as CEO
Ten-year-old startup Andela, valued at $1.5 billion, expects to grow its tech contractor marketplace by 15% this year.
AirTable’s new AI tool can generate apps from just a prompt
Airtable’s new Cobuilder product generates apps just from a simple prompt — and has the $11.7 billion-valued startup back eyeing an IPO after painful job cuts.
OpenAI made Sam Altman famous. His investments made him a billionaire.
CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found.
Y Combinator is raising billions in new funding
Storied startup accelerator Y Combinator is targeting at least $2 billion, sources told Forbes, in its first major fundraising effort under Garry Tan.
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft
After raising $1.3 billion last year, Inflection is pivoting to focus on business-to-business APIs, as Suleyman jumps to lead consumer AI at Microsoft.
AI unicorn Anthropic releases Claude 3, a model it claims can beat OpenAI’s best
In an interview, founders Dario and Daniela Amodei told Forbes that Anthropic’s new enterprise-focused model, released Monday, outperforms rivals GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra.