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Explaining why you’re quitting a job can be tricky, especially if your plans change soon afterward.Lilian Weng announced on Monday that she was leaving the AI startup she cofounded, Thinking Machines Lab, citing stress-related illness. “I don’t feel I’m able to continue at the pace a startup requires,” she wrote…
The founder of China’s hottest AI startup du jour is having a main character moment.Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old founder and CEO of Moonshot AI, is going viral on the Chinese social media platform Weibo. Chinese fans of the executive are calling him a “millennial genius” after his new Kimi K3…
Moonshot AI’s latest Kimi K3 model is giving China’s internet plenty to talk about.The Chinese startup unveiled the open-weight model on Thursday, touting its ability to compete with leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. Days later, Moonshot AI temporarily suspended new subscriptions, citing overwhelming…
Here’s some delicious AI irony for you.For years, tech giants have argued that if information is available on the internet, it can be used for AI model development and outputs. They call it fair use. Content owners have tried to prevent this, with no success.Now Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are…
As AI races toward an agent-powered future, a legendary systems engineer says it reminds him of another technological revolution he knows quite well: the birth of the internet.Vinton Cerf, the now 83-year-old who helped invent the networking protocols that underpin the modern web, has important guidance for the AI boom.During…
