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- 💲 Google's largest acquisition, 🍓 OpenAI Project Strawberry, Microsoft Spreadsheet LLM
💲 Google's largest acquisition, 🍓 OpenAI Project Strawberry, Microsoft Spreadsheet LLM
plus: Harvard Lab slides, Disney hacked
TechX Insides
July 16, 2024
Resources & Tools 💬
Productivity Tools
Telescope.ai: Find the right folks in seconds - from investors, to employees, to potential customers - link
Bannerbear: Automate and scale your marketing by auto-generating your visual content - link
Useful Resources
Harvard Innovation Lab 91-slide Workshop on Product-Market Fit:
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When to trust an AI Model - link
Why Microsoft’s CTO thinks the 3 laws of LLM Scaling will hold - link
How to embrace Product-Led Growth - link
How Netflix’s Chief Content Officer presides over a $17b budget - link
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News & Trends 📢
OpenAI’s Project Strawberry - READ MORE
OpenAI is developing an advanced reasoning engine, codenamed “Strawberry”. One of the use cases would be to perform deep research online to complete complex analytical tasks - overcoming ChatGPT constraints. Currently, ChatGPT is limited to training data and requires prompts for up-to-date information.
Mergers, Funding and Acquisitions
Softbank acquires Graphcore (AI chipmaker): Graphcore’s investors include Sequoia and Microsoft, and was last valued at around $3b in 2020. This acquisition (unknown figure) pits Softbank against Nvidia - READ MORE
Google eyes $23b acquisition of Wiz, a cybersecurity startup: Wiz improves cloud security and was founded in 2020. If the deal goes through, this will be Google’s largest acquisition - READ MORE
MENA startups raised almost $900m in H1 2024: Investment is picking up (vs last year) - with fintech as the most-funded sector and Tendered’s $30m (UAE) and 44.01’s $37m (Oman) rounds as one of the largest this year - READ MORE
Helsing (defense tech) raises at a $5.4b valuation: Helsing raised around $490m at a $5.4b valuation, led by General Catalyst. This comes on the heels of Anduril, another defense tech startup, looking to raise $1.5b at a $12.5b valuation - READ MORE
Disney hacked and over 1.1 TB of customer data stolen: Are you safe?
Quick News
Microsoft introduces SPREADSHEETLLM, to help manage complex data more efficiently [Source]
Major VC firm, a16z, acquires thousands of AI chips to provide potential startups access in return for equity [Source]
Apple releases iOS 18 public beta - what’s new and how to get it
Youtube Music getting new features, such as conversational radio and AI song search [Source]
Amazon launches Rufus, it’s AI-powered shopping assistance, to all its US users through the Amazon app [Source]
Major Record Labels Sue Verizon for Alleged Piracy Inaction - READ MORE
Major record labels allege that Verizon violated copyright law by ignoring over 340,000 copyright infringement notices (driven by P2P downloads). These labels, which includes Sony and Universal, are pursuing damages of $2.6b.
The Best Amazon Prime Day Deals - READ MORE
🔮 Mystery Link 🔮
What could it be? A podcast on business principles? An HBR article? Free access to a paid tool? Or perhaps a talking cat gif?
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