Daily Digest: a lot of money flying around

PLUS: resurrecting the dead

Hi folks, I hope you’re enjoying the holidays! As a reminder, Ben’s Bites Pro will go from $100/year to $150/year on Jan 1st. Two posts I’ve written so far; How Mistral AI, an OpenAI competitor, rocketed to $2Bn in <12 months and How Deel uses AI in its business.

Here’s what we have today;

Sam Altman’s OpenAI to be second-most valuable U.S. startup behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX based on early-talks funding round at $100 Billion valuation
Anthropic Projects At Least $850 Million in Annualized Revenue Rate Next Year
Son uses AI to ‘resurrect’ late father for moving Christmas gift: ‘I got chills’
71% of enterprises experimenting with real use cases for GenAI

Will scaling work?
AI Is Telling Bedtime Stories to Your Kids Now
AI made from living human brain cells performs speech recognition
Nvidia closes in on chip revenue crown as AI booms
OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla predicts AI will deflate the economy over the next 25 years
Microsoft Copilot is now available as a ChatGPT-like app on Android
OpenAI Passes the Hat (raising at a $100Bn valuation); Midjourney Takes the Cake
Big Tech outspends venture capital firms in AI investment frenzy
OpenAI Pissed Off Developers by Phasing Out Plugins for GPTs
Apple’s iPhone Design Chief Enlisted by Jony Ive, Sam Altman to Work on AI Devices

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