Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup
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Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team
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SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
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Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.