This 25-year-old raised US$100 million for his AI startup at a US$4 billion valuation
At the beginning of last year, Ali Ansari’s company, Micro1, was a recruiting business generating $7 million in ARR. It’s now generating over $500 million in ARR.
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Prompts on the playa: AI invades Burning Man
Silicon Valley brought sushi, Starlink and luxury camps to Burning Man. Now it’s importing something potentially even more divisive: AI slop.
AfterQuery becomes YC’s fastest unicorn at US$3.2 billion
Twenty three year-old Spencer Mateega pivoted his YC startup into the fastest unicorn in the accelerator’s history, fueling AI’s shift toward human reasoning data.
The AI boom has created a new donor class of ‘anxious’ givers
An army of newly wealthy AI workers is searching for causes worthy of its money. Animal advocates think they may also be sitting on the future of philanthropy.
Can’t get a piece of OpenAI or Anthropic? There’s a booming secondary market for their swag
You might not be able to get in on the IPO, but you can still get the hoodie. With AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic in private hands, people are paying $250 for used sweatshirts on eBay to cosplay proximity to Silicon Valley’s money machine.
This 23 year-old’s new AI data company has already hit a $100 million run rate
This 23 Year-Old’s New AI Data Company Has Already Hit A $100 Million Run Rate
This crypto billionaire wants to use the human brain as a blueprint for AI
Ripple and Stellar founder Jed McCaleb wants to build AGI by studying how the brain learns—then translating those rules into AI.