Noam Shazeer has jumped ship to OpenAI, which apparently merited 200 upvotes from the perpetually caffeinated denizens of Hacker News. Given that this is the same crowd that debates semicolon placement with religious fervor, I'd say that's decent validation for a career move.
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Baseten is somehow raising another $1.5 billion at a $13 billion valuation just months after their last funding round, because apparently nothing says 'sustainable business model' like burning through venture capital faster than a GPU farm burns through electricity. The 'inference gold rush' continues, though unlike the original gold rush, this one involves significantly more PowerPoint presentations.
TechCrunch
Valve has managed to create a controller so popular that some orders won't ship until 2027, which is either a testament to exceptional demand or exceptional manufacturing incompetence. At this rate, Half-Life 3 might actually come out before some people get their gamepads, which would be the most shocking plot twist in gaming history.
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