Kate Clark / Bloomberg: Sources: Sesame, which makes realistic AI voice assistants, is in talks to raise $200M+ co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital, valuing the company at $1B+  —  Sesame AI is discussing a funding round of more than $200 million, co-led by Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: Tampa-based ReliaQuest, which provides AI-powered cybersecurity tools, raised $500M+ in a funding round led by EQT, KKR, and FTV Capital, valuing it at $3.4B  —  Armed with AI agents, ReliaQuest’s platform detects and responds to cyberattacks within minutes, company says Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kylie Robison / The Verge: Sam Altman says “we added one million users in the last hour”, following last week’s Images for ChatGPT launch; over the weekend he said “our GPUs are melting”  —  Last week, OpenAI released Images for ChatGPT which led to an explosion of interest thanks to its ability … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Altman / @sama: TL;DR: we are excited to release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months, and we want to talk to devs about how to make it maximally useful: https://openai.com/… we are excited to make this a very, very good model! __ we are planning to Lees verder op Tech Meme