OpenAI woos private equity investors with 17.5% return

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OpenAI is trying to woo private equity investors with a sweet offer: a guaranteed minimum return of 17.5% on their investments, which is “significantly higher than typical preferred instruments,” as well as early access to new models, according to a report from Reuters.

The deal aims to build joint ventures to raise capital amid OpenAI’s intense competition for a bigger slice of the enterprise AI market. The minimum return offer is something that its competitor Anthropic is not currently offering, per Reuters.

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Jensen Huang: We have achieved AGI now... sort of

Lots of AI leaders are thinking about a big moment looming over the current AI boom: when will we have achieved artificial general intelligence?

There’s no shortage of predictions, but we haven’t yet seen a full-throated declaration that this slippery milestone has been achieved.

Until now. On Lex Friedman’s podcast Monday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was asked what he thought the timeline looked like for “an AI system that’s able to essentially do your job. So, run — no, start, grow, and run a successful technology company.”

Huang confidently answered: “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”

Huang then hedged, noting that Friedman was talking about running a $1 billion dollar company, but he didn’t specify for how long. Huang elaborated, “It is not out of the question that a Claude was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden, you know, a few billion people used for $0.50, and then it went out of business again shortly after.”

So maybe it will be a while before Jensen Huang can get help running Nvidia by eating his own dog food.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’

Huang confidently answered: “I think it’s now. I think we’ve achieved AGI.”

So maybe it will be a while before Jensen Huang can get help running Nvidia by eating his own dog food.

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Alphabet’s drone delivery startup, Wing, expands service to the Bay Area

Move over Waymo — another one of Alphabet’s “Other Bets” is expanding. Drone delivery company Wing said Monday it’s bringing its “ultra-fast residential drone delivery service” to the Bay Area, where autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo also has a sizable presence.

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What we know about Tesla’s Terafab, the “most epic chip-building exercise in history by far”

The SpaceX and Tesla collab would be “bigger than everything else combined” in Giga Texas.

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