Openai: When news broke of Altman s firing on November 17, a text landed in a private WhatsApp group of more than 100 CEOs of Silicon Valley companies, including Meta s Mark Zuckerberg and Dropbox s Drew Houston. "Sam is out," the text said.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, who had parlayed the success of OpenAI s ChatGPT chatbot into personal stardom beyond the tech world, had a meeting lined up that day with Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist of the AI startup. But when the call started, Altman saw that Sutskever was not alone - he was virtually flanked by OpenAI s three independent board members. Instantly, Altman knew something was wrong.
NEW DELHI: In the biggest ever series A (early stage) funding for an Indian AI (artificial intelligence) startup, Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI has bagged.
India Business News: Bengaluru-based Sarvam AI raises $41 million in series A funding led by Lightspeed, with participation from Peak XV Partners and Khosla Ventures. The
Musk announced it in a post on X, without revealing anymore details of the launch. Last month, he had said that as soon as Grok was out of early beta testing, it would become available to the subscribers.