Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has stepped back into the limelight as he was recently seen with his wife, Wendy, months after reports surfaced about his $100 million investment in his 29-year-old girlfriend's tech startup. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been appointed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to lead a commission on reviving the state’s economy Eric Schmidt …
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Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in Anthropic and taking a minority stake in the artificial intelligence startup, the two companies said Monday. Amazon and Anthropic said the deal is part of a broader collaboration to develop so-called foundation models, which underpin the generative AI systems that have captured global attention. Under the agreement, Anthropic is making Amazon its …
When covid-19 began spreading rapidly in India in March, Sanjay Mehta deferred his fund 100X.VC’s second batch of startup investments. Concentration of power Until 2014, with the exception of Accel Partners, Silicon Valley-based global investors like Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners and Lightspeed weren’t firm believers in India’s tech entrepreneurship scene. In mid-2014, India witnessed its first major funding boom, which …
