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Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Sources: Indian AI data center operator Yotta is aiming to secure ~$500M to $600M at a ~$4B valuation, then file initial paperwork for an IPO within weeks — Yotta Data Services Pvt., the data center operator that runs India's largest cluster of Nvidia Corp. AI processors …
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt:
Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked third on Arena AI's text-to-image leaderboard behind only models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground — Microsoft has been quietly building its own image generator. Announced Thursday by the company's AI Superintelligence team …
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system (Micah Maidenberg/Wall Street Journal)
Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Filing: Blue Origin seeks US FCC approval to deploy nearly 52K solar-powered satellites as part of Project Sunrise, its proposed orbital AI data center system — Blue Origin joins SpaceX and Starcloud in filing FCC applications for AI satellites — Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin is seeking permission …
Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech (New York Times)
New York Times:
Sources: Jeff Bezos' $100B fund would be part of the same holding company as Project Prometheus and would invest in companies that could benefit from its tech — The new fund would operate alongside the Amazon founder's A.I. start-up, Project Prometheus. — Jeff Bezos is in early discussions …
AI startups and founders have embraced "taste" as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality (Kyle Chayka/New Yorker)
Kyle Chayka / New Yorker:
AI startups and founders have embraced “taste” as the new buzzword to make their products stand out, attempting to hitch themselves to an aura of artisanality — In the age of A.I., the term has become as much of a Silicon Valley cliché as “disruption” was in the twenty-tens.