Max Zeff
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Senior AI Reporter @TechCrunch | Formerly @Gizmodo, @markets, @nbc | Send anonymous tips on Signal @ mzeff.88
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Joined November 2020
SCOOP: Meta has hired a key OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to build AI reasoning models, TechCrunch has learned. Bansal helped kickstart OpenAI's work on reinforcement learning, and was a key leader behind the company's first AI reasoning model, o1.
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OpenAI plans to launch an AI-powered hiring platform by mid 2026, putting the outfit in close competition with LinkedIn. The company also wants to start certifying people for "AI fluency.". The ambition of this company is something else.
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Here's that story from last week:
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Two months after making a $14.3B investment in Scale AI, Meta is relying heavily on its competitors to train next generation AI models.
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Great spot by Hayden here. Scale sues Mercor over corporate espionage. If you read TechCrunch's story on Friday, you'd know that Mercor is one of the data firms that researchers in Meta's TBD Labs have been working with — despite Meta's big investment in Scale.
new: Scale AI still exists — and after a tumultuous summer, it's suing an ex-employee over corporate espionage.
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RT @eshugerman: NEW: OpenAI has been claiming for months now that the groups opposed to its for-profit transition are secretly backed by bi….
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SCOOP: A Scale executive Alexandr Wang brought over to help run MSL has departed Meta after just two months. Plus, researchers in TBD Labs have complained that Scale AI's data is low quality, and are using its competitors, Surge and Mercor, to train next gen AI models.
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NEW: Meta is updating how it trains AI chatbots such that they can't have inappropriate romantic conversations with teenage users. This follows a bombshell report that found Meta was allowing its AI chatbots to have sensual chats with teens. Meta calls these "interim" changes.
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Suit huh? must be going after the enterprise.
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NEW: OpenAI and Anthropic want the industry to safety test rival AI models. OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba told me this is a "consequential" time for AI safety. When asked about the 16 y/o boy who used ChatGPT to plan his suicide, Zaremba cited a "dystopian future."
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RT @RebeccaBellan: Thanks so much to @mcuban for coming on @EquityPod! I learned so much 🤓. Have a listen to hear about Mark's formula for….
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Mark Cuban joins Equity to share his disruption formula and why most people building in AI are missing the real opportunity.
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in the last 6 months, linkedin has told me to follow bill gates 11 times. what is going on
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Met someone in Berkeley this weekend that pitched me on Neuralink for ants. who is funding this.
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