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OpenAI hires Meta's head of AI compute and storage supply chain
OpenAI has hired Meta's head of AI compute and storage supply chain as part of its infrastructure strategy and leadership team. Keith Heyde joined the generative artificial intelligence startup in November, but the move has not been previously reported.
Meta’s Yann LeCun predicts ‘new paradigm of AI architectures’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’
Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that a "new paradigm of AI architectures" will emerge in the next three to five years, going far beyond the
Inside Meta’s race to beat OpenAI: “We need to learn how to build frontier and win this race”
In an October 2023 email to Meta AI researcher Hugo Touvron, Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s vice president of generative AI, wrote that the company’s goal “needs to be GPT4,” referring to the large language model OpenAI announced in March of 2023.
Meta backs data analytics firm Databricks as AI boom attracts investors
Meta backs data analytics firm Databricks
Databricks Caps $15 Billion Fundraise With Meta as New Investor
Databricks Inc., one of the world’s most valuable privately held tech companies, said on Wednesday that it has raised more than $15 billion from companies including Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc.,
Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI’s GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal
Executives and researchers leading Meta's AI efforts obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 model while developing Llama 3, according to internal messages
Democratic lawmakers pen letter accusing Meta, OpenAI, Google and more of trying to 'buy favor' with Trump
Meta, Apple, Google and other tech companies have been named in a letter penned by Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of cozying up to President-elect Trump.
How Chinese A.I. Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Silicon Valley Giants
The company built a cheaper, competitive chatbot with fewer high-end computer chips than U.S. behemoths like Google and OpenAI, showing the limits of chip export control.
Why Is ChatGPT Still Down? Inside the AI Platform’s Outage
ChatGPT users noticed that the OpenAI platform suddenly stopped working on January 23, 2025. Find out the reason why and get a status update.
OpenAI’s Stargate may be tech’s biggest gamble ever, but here’s what’s really at stake
Stargate isn’t just a massive AI investment—it’s a high-stakes bet on technology, power, and future global dominance.
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OpenAI has upped its lobbying efforts nearly sevenfold
OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone, according to a new disclosure filed on January 22—a significant jump from 2023, when the company spent just $260,000 on Capitol Hill.
Meta gets a reprieve; Infra.Market’s pre-IPO dough
NCLAT stays CCI’s data-sharing ban on WhatsApp and Meta platforms. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5. Also in the letter: ■ CCPA alerts Apple over iPhone performance ■ Stargate’s funding revealed ■ AWS doubles down on Maharashtra NCLAT stays CCI order on WhatsApp-Meta data sharing ban 117490411 In an interim relief to Meta Platforms,
OpenAI unveils tool to automate web tasks as AI agents take center-stage
Generative artificial intelligence heavyweight OpenAI on Thursday previewed an AI agent that can carry out tasks on the web for users, as it seeks to enhance its chatbot amid intensifying competition.