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3 reasons China's Kimi K3 is turning heads in Silicon Valley
6+ hour, 52+ min ago (526+ words) A new artificial intelligence model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI is making waves in Silicon Valley and intensifying the global AI race. Kimi K3, unveiled on Thursday, is an open-weight model that Moonshot AI says rivals some of the best systems…...
Silicon Valley
3+ week, 6+ day ago (222+ words) Latest stories about Silicon Valley on Business Insider... My father died of cancer at 72. A $12,000 longevity exam at a Silicon Valley clinic found both good and bad news in my DNA. 'Root for the crash': Why a venture capitalist says…...
What is GLM-5.2? Another open-source Chinese AI model has Silicon Valley's attention.
3+ week, 4+ day ago (404+ words) A new AI model from China is generating the kind of buzz not seen since DeepSeek's R1 announced China as a serious threat to American chatbot hegemony over a year ago. Silicon Valley's online echo chamber has been alight with intrigue…...
The math behind Silicon Valley's millionaire factory
3+ week, 6+ day ago (152+ words) New Levels.fyi analyses show how equity grants at frontier tech companies have turned into life-changing sums. A SpaceX Software Engineer II offer from August 2022 included a $155,000 salary and a $365,000 equity grant that vested over five years. At SpaceX's IPO…...
Silicon Valley's new slogan: Let's get physical
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (460+ words) Silicon Valley spent the last few years teaching AI to talk. Now it wants to give AI a body to lift, sort, build, and eventually live alongside us. This weekend offered a glimpse of how quickly the biggest AI players…...
The Silicon Valley leaders who have experimented with psychedelics
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (882+ words) Some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley have dabbled in psychedelics. The psychedelic movement isn't limited to the most successful tech moguls in Silicon Valley. A rising number of entrepreneurs and executives are turning to psychedelics like LSD, ayahuasca,…...
Lovable's CEO takes a dig at Silicon Valley and pitches straight to laid-off Big Tech workers
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (489+ words) Have you been laid off from Meta, Microsoft or Google? Lovable says it may have a job for you. In a LinkedIn post on Tuesday, Lovable cofounder and CEO Anton Osika made a direct appeal to tech workers shaken by…...
The fall of OneTaste: Ellen Huet on Nicole Daedone's sentencing and Silicon Valley's culture of belief
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (496+ words) Ellen Huet is a tech reporter I used to work with in San Francisco. She wrote a book called "Empire of Orgasm," about the rise and fall of startup OneTaste and its controversial founder, Nicole Daedone. Recently, Daedone was sentenced…...
At one of AI's biggest events, the consensus was clear: Anthropic is the new favorite in Silicon Valley
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (621+ words) Thousands converged in downtown San Francisco this week for HumanX, one of the year's biggest AI conferences, proving people still prefer interacting with humans rather than AI agents. Talking to VCs and founders inside San Francisco's Moscone Center, the consensus…...