Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI brings the tech behind the new ChatGPT image generator to its API, for $5/1M text input tokens, $10/1M image input tokens, and $40/1M image output tokens  —  OpenAI on Wednesday brought the tech behind its new and improved image generation feature in ChatGPT to its API … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jordan Novet / CNBC: IBM reports Q1 revenue up 0.6% YoY to $14.54B, vs. $14.4B est., software revenue up 7% to $6.34B, and maintains its full-year forecast  —  IBM reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for the first quarter on Wednesday.  The stock slipped 2% in extended trading.  —  Here’s how the company performed: Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Internal documents: several Google units have notified remote workers that their jobs will be in jeopardy if they don’t show up at the office three days a week  —  Five years removed from the onset of the Covid pandemic, Google is demanding that some remote employees return to the office … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: a Perplexity executive says Google’s contract with Motorola blocked Perplexity from being the default AI assistant on new Motorola devices  —  Google’s contract with Lenovo Group Ltd.’s Motorola blocked the smartphone maker from setting Perplexity AI as the default assistant on its new devices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia updates its G-Assist AI chatbot, offering plugin and API support to let developers connect to external services and tools, such as Spotify and Gemini  —  G-Assist is moving beyond just improving PC gaming, to controlling more apps and services. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Source: Neuralink has begun preliminary discussions to raise about $500M at an $8.5B pre-money valuation; PitchBook: it was valued at $3.5B as of November 2023  —  Elon Musk’s Neuralink is planning to raise about $500 million at a pre-money valuation of $8.5 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Discord CEO Jason Citron is stepping down and will be succeeded by Humam Sakhnini, effective April 28; Citron will stay on the board and serve as a CEO advisor  —  Jason Citron is stepping down as CEO of Discord and he has hired game veteran Humam Sakhnini as the new CEO. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sri Muppidi / The Information: Documents: OpenAI told investors it expects revenues of $125B in 2029 and $174B in 2030, with sales from agents and other products exceeding those from ChatGPT  —  For two years, ChatGPT has been OpenAI’s cash cow.  But by the end of the decade, the company has told some potential … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sharon Goldman / Fortune: Listen Labs, which uses AI to conduct thousands of voice interviews simultaneously for customer research, raised $27M across a seed and Series A led by Sequoia  —  Alfred Wahlforss and Florian Juengermann, co-founders of Sequoia-backed AI startup Listen Labs (photo courtesy of Listen Labs) Lees verder op Tech Meme

Erin Woo / The Information: Court data: Google estimates its Gemini AI chatbot had 35M DAUs and 350M MAUs worldwide as of last month while ChatGPT had 160M DAUs and 600M MAUs  —  Google’s Gemini AI chatbot last fall was lagging rival services run by OpenAI and Meta Platforms but it was ahead of services from Microsoft … Lees verder op Tech Meme