Why Elon Musk’s DOGE is attracting young coders and tech CEOs alike
The incoming Trump agency for cutting government excess is seeking 100 full-time hires in the nation’s capital, sources tell Forbes, which spoke to some early applicants.
Alex Konrad, Forbes Staff
Notion and Stripe trust this year-old startup to make sure their AI tools work
Ankur Goyal’s year-old startup is popular with Airtable, Brex, Notion, Stripe and others building AI products. The LLM Ops startup offers evaluations, logging and more.
Talent startup Andela, once valued at $1.5 billion, taps Uber exec as CEO
Ten-year-old startup Andela, valued at $1.5 billion, expects to grow its tech contractor marketplace by 15% this year.
AirTable’s new AI tool can generate apps from just a prompt
Airtable’s new Cobuilder product generates apps just from a simple prompt — and has the $11.7 billion-valued startup back eyeing an IPO after painful job cuts.
OpenAI made Sam Altman famous. His investments made him a billionaire.
CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found.
Y Combinator is raising billions in new funding
Storied startup accelerator Y Combinator is targeting at least $2 billion, sources told Forbes, in its first major fundraising effort under Garry Tan.
AI unicorn Inflection abandons its ChatGPT challenger as CEO Mustafa Suleyman joins Microsoft
After raising $1.3 billion last year, Inflection is pivoting to focus on business-to-business APIs, as Suleyman jumps to lead consumer AI at Microsoft.
AI unicorn Anthropic releases Claude 3, a model it claims can beat OpenAI’s best
In an interview, founders Dario and Daniela Amodei told Forbes that Anthropic’s new enterprise-focused model, released Monday, outperforms rivals GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra.
Inside AI unicorn Anthropic’s unusual US$750 million fundraise
The startup’s new round led by Menlo Ventures surprised some industry insiders for its form of a special purpose vehicle and its function to help price bets by giants Amazon and Google.
A secretive $10 billion firm backed by WhatsApp billionaire is quietly building a startup portfolio
Led by former Sequoia partner Michael Abramson, two-year-old Newlands already holds billions in equities like Alphabet, Amazon and Meta. But no one wants to talk.