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Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
OpenAI nabs key Patreon execs ahead of upcoming announcement
Patreon co-founder Sam Yam is joing OpenAI to lead Creator Product. | Image: The Verge OpenAI has hired three former Patreon execs to anchor its product strategy for creators. After starting the creator subscription platform 13 years ago, co-founder and technology chief Sam Yam announced on X that he's joining OpenAI to lead Creator Product. He's also bringing Patreon's former product head Drew Rowny and engineering head Shannon Ma with him on the new venture, both of whom stepp
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema has raised $140 million to date and has more than 50 enterprise customers, including Google and Microsoft.
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe, along with $42 million in funding led by a16z. While billed as a "highly selective school," it does not grant any degree or accreditation. Instead, students wil
Nscale’s IPO will test Wall Street’s appetite for concentrated AI bets once again
The British AI data center developer depends on tech giants Microsoft and Anthropic for most of its revenue.
Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community
The move consolidates support for Apple's machine learning framework under a major open-source platform, potentially expanding MLX's reach beyond Apple device developers.
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