Tech

AI materials discovery now needs to move into the real world

Startups flush with cash are building AI-assisted laboratories to find materials far faster and more cheaply, but are still waiting for their ChatGPT moment.

A brief history of Sam Altman’s hype

Here’s how pinning a utopian vision for AI on LLMs kicked off the hype cycle that’s causing fears of a bubble today.

AI might not be coming for lawyers’ jobs anytime soon

Generative AI might have aced the bar exam, but an LLM still can’t think like a lawyer.

Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs

It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life

What even is the AI bubble?

Everyone in tech agrees we’re in a bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops.

Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem

Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.