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That was my takeaway from reading cross-cultural work notes by AI researchers. After an OpenAI denizen shared his daily work and life schedule, a member of Alibaba’s own LLM crew did the same, which ended up as direct evidence that AI research is more or less the same everywhere. It’s a lot of work, a lot of thinking, and not a lot of time doing much else.
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In India, Shadowfax wants to unify “disparate elements in India’s last-mile ecosystem,” and has raised a Series E to keep working on the challenge. The round stands out thanks to its size – India has seen venture capital inflow slow down in recent quarters, which makes this nine figure round a positive signal.
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When Glean was born, the startup’s founders wanted to help workers at companies find the information that they needed faster. Now with generative AI at the forefront of its tech, Glean can do a lot more, like ingesting operational data from companies – chats, support tickets, etc. – to better answer employees’ queries.
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</a>
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Danish startup Subsets is building retention-focused software for subscription media. I know from personal experience how brutal churn can be for media products that depend on recurring revenue, so I can see why the startup exists. It just raised $1.65 million, and is working with The Athletic as well as a Danish newspaper.
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Building big rockets from scratch is not an easy task because early versions tend to go boom. SpaceX had to endure a review by the Federal Aviation Administration after its second Starship orbital test ended in a fiery mess, despite some notable achievements. The FAA has approved the fixes SpaceX wants to make, and once they are done, the company will be able to give its massive rocket another go.
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