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Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesPerplexity AI officially made a play for TikTok on Saturday, submitting a bid to its parent company, ByteDance, to allow Perplexity to merge with TikTok U.S. and create a new entity combining Perplexity, TikTok U.S. and New Capital Partners, CNBC has learned.The new structure would allow for most of ByteDance's existing investors to retain their equity stakes and would bring more video to Perplexity, according to a source familiar with the situation, who asked to remain anonymous due to the confidential nature of the potential deal.Perplexity AI, the artificial intelligence search engine startup competing with OpenAI and Google, started 2024 with a roughly $500 million valuation and ended the year with a valuation of about $9 billion, after attracting increasing investor interest amid the generative AI boom — as well as controversy over plagiarism accusations.AI-assisted search has been viewed by investors as one of Google's key risks, as it potentially changes the way consumers access information online. Last year, OpenAI, which started the generative AI craze in late 2022 with ChatGPT, introduced a search engine called SearchGPT. Google later launched "AI Overviews" in search, allowing users to see a quick summary of answers at the top of results.Though any potential transaction between Perplexity AI and ByteDance would likely take months to complete — and TikTok has said the app will "go dark" in the U.S. on Sunday unless the Biden administration assures it won't punish Apple, Google and other service providers for hosting it — President-elect Donald Trump told NBC News on Saturday that he "most likely" would give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal after he is sworn into office on Monday.In a video posted to TikTok on Friday, CEO Shou Zi Chew said, "I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States."ByteDance has publicly implied it will not sell TikTok U.S., which is part of why Perplexity AI believes it has a shot with its bid — since the proposal is a merger rather than a sale, the source told CNBC.The source believes a fair price is "well north of $50 billion" but that the final number attached to the proposal will be decided, in part, by which of ByteDance's existing shareholders want to remain part of the new entity and which want to cash out

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The artificial intelligence (AI) boom drove chipmaker Nvidia to become 2024’s biggest global gainer in terms of market capitalization and the world’s second-most valuable listed company. Nvidia had a market value of $1.2 trillion at the end of 2023 and $3.28 trillion at the end of 2024, Reuters reported Thursday (Jan. 2), attributing the surge in value to demand for the company’s AI chips. Apple continued to be the world leader in market value, according to the report. Apple neared a $4 trillion valuation as investors anticipated the company benefiting from its AI enhancements

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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTNEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 01: Sundar Pichai, C.E.O., Google Inc. speaks at the New York Times DealBook conference on November 1, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) Stephanie Keith | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesGoogle's blowout earnings report in April, which sparked the biggest rally in Alphabet shares since 2015 and pushed its market cap past $2 trillion for the first time, tempered fear that the company was falling behind in artificial intelligence. As executives enthusiastically talked about the results with Google's employees at an all-hands meeting the following week, it was clear that Wall Street viewed things differently than the company's workforce. "We've noticed a significant decline in morale, increased distrust and a disconnect between leadership and the workforce," one employee wrote in a comment that was read by executives at the meeting. "How does leadership plan to address these concerns and regain the trust, morale and cohesion that have been foundational to our company's success?" The comment was highly rated on an internal forum

Google Ceo Pichai Struggled To Navigate A Pressure-Filled Year

In this article MSFT Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTSam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI, during a fireside chat organized by Softbank Ventures Asia in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, June 9, 2023. SeongJoon Cho | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI said Friday that in moving toward a new for-profit structure in 2025, the company will create a public benefit corporation to oversee commercial operations, removing some of its nonprofit restrictions and allowing it to function more like a high-growth startup. "The hundreds of billions of dollars that major companies are now investing into AI development show what it will really take for OpenAI to continue pursuing the mission," OpenAI's board wrote in the post. "We once again need to raise more capital than we'd imagined. Investors want to back us but, at this scale of capital, need conventional equity and less structural bespokeness." The pressure on OpenAI is tied to its $157 billion valuation, achieved in the two years since the company launched its viral chatbot, ChatGPT, and kicked off the boom in generative artificial intelligence. OpenAI closed its latest $6.6 billion round in October, gearing up to aggressively compete with Elon Musk's xAI as well as Microsoft , Google, Amazon and Anthropic in a market that's predicted to top $1 trillion in revenue within a decade

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Japan’s SoftBank and Alphabet’s late-stage venture investment fund are among investors plowing close to $2 billion into a Chinese truck-hailing company.

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Venture capital in the U.S. has moved to artificial intelligence (AI) companies at an “unprecedented” rate, HSBC Innovation Banking said Monday (Dec. 16). The scale of capital invested in AI companies by U.S. venture investors is approaching that allocated to the rest of the venture market, the firm said in a Monday press release outlining findings from Innovation Horizons, its latest quarterly outlook for the U.S. technology sector

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In this photo, the logo of OpenAI is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying the photographs of Elon Musk and Sam Altman, in Ankara, Turkey, on March 14, 2024.Muhammed Selim Korkutata | Anadolu | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Friday clapped back against Elon Musk, one of its co-founders, after the billionaire's request last month for a federal court to stop the ChatGPT-maker from converting to a fully for-profit business.In a blog post titled "Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit," the startup alleged that in 2017, Musk "not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit" to serve as the company's proposed new structure."When he didn't get majority equity and full control, he walked away and told us we would fail," OpenAI wrote in the blog post. "Now that OpenAI is the leading AI research lab and Elon runs a competing AI company, he's asking the court to stop us from effectively pursuing our mission."Musk and xAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Since Musk announced the debut of xAI, his OpenAI competitor, in July 2023, the startup has released its Grok chatbot and is raising up to $6 billion at a $50 billion valuation, in part to buy 100,000 Nvidia chips, CNBC reported last month.Musk was questioning OpenAI's nonprofit model from day one, a member of OpenAI's legal team told CNBC.OpenAI's "structure doesn't seem optimal," Musk wrote in a November 2015 email to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, according to screenshots shared in the blog post."In particular, the YC stock along with a salary from the nonprofit muddies the alignment of incentives," Musk wrote, according to the screenshots. "Probably better to have a standard C corp with a parallel nonprofit."In a text conversation with former board member Shivon Zilis, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman wrote that a conversation he had with Musk "turned into talking about structure" and that Musk "said non-profit was def the right one early on, may not be the right one now," according to blog screenshots.About a week later, according to screenshots shared by OpenAI, Musk forwarded an article about China's plan to match the number of AI research facilities in the U.S. by 2020 and become an AI world leader by 2030, writing, "They will do whatever it takes to obtain what we develop. Maybe another reason to change course."Brockman agreed and wrote that starting in 2018, the path would need to be a "Al research + hardware for-profit." Musk wrote back, "Let's talk Sat or Sun. I have a tentative game plan that l'd like to run by you."During a period of six or more weeks in fall 2017, Musk, Brockman, Altman and others negotiated terms for the planned OpenAI for-profit, but according to email screenshots shared by OpenAI, negotiations fell apart after the participants could not agree on equity, control and who would be CEO

Openai Says Elon Musk Wanted It To Be For-Profit In 2017

Sam Altman, co-founder and C.E.O. of OpenAI, speaks during the New York Times annual DealBook summit at Jazz at Lincoln Center on December 04, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesAfter months of C-suite changes, tender offers and a soaring valuation, OpenAI has reached a new milestone: 300 million weekly active users.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed the new figure Wednesday at The New York Times' DealBook Summit. A source familiar with the company told CNBC last week that the company's weekly active user count was still at 250 million.Over the next year, though, the company is reportedly targeting 1 billion active users.It's part of a serious growth plan for OpenAI, as the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup battles Amazon-backed Anthropic and Elon Musk's xAI, the latter of which Altman said he views as a "fierce competitor" on Wednesday at DealBook. The company is also up against established tech giants like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon for a bigger slice of the generative AI market, which is predicted to top $1 trillion in revenue within a decade.OpenAI on Tuesday announced it had hired its first chief marketing officer, nabbing Kate Rouch from crypto company Coinbase — an indication that it plans to spend more on marketing to grow its user base. In October, OpenAI debuted a search feature within ChatGPT that positions it to better compete with search engines like Google, Microsoft's Bing and Perplexity and may attract more users who otherwise visited those sites to search the web.Also at DealBook on Wednesday, Altman denied reports that the company had asked investors not to also invest in its competitors but said that those who decide to wouldn't have access to OpenAI's "information rights," like the company's roadmap and other materials.OpenAI's valuation has climbed to $157 billion in the two years since it launched ChatGPT, raising about $13 billion from Microsoft

Openai'S Active User Count Soars To 300 Million People Per Week

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks in conversation with Emily Chang during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesAlphabet CEO Sundar Pichai is challenging Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to an AI duel.Well, sort of."I'd love to do a side-by-side comparison of Microsoft's own models and our models any day, any time," Pichai said, speaking at the The New York Times' Dealbook Summit on Wednesday with interviewer Andrew Ross Sorkin.Pichai's comments came after Sorkin read aloud comments from an interview Nadella did earlier this year, in which the Microsoft CEO questioned Google's place in the AI arms race following the search giant's AI product mishaps earlier this year."Google should have been the default winner in the world of big tech's AI race," Nadella said in March on the Norges Bank Investment Management's podcast. "Google's a very competent company and obviously they have both the talent and the compute. They're the vertically integrated player in this. They have everything from data to silicon to models to products and distribution.""You guys were the originals when it comes to AI," Sorkin told Pichai after reading Nadella's comments. He asked Pichai, "Where [do] you think you are in the journey relative to these other players?""They're using someone else's models," added Pichai after saying he'd love to do the side-by-side comparison."You're throwing down the gauntlet," Sorkin responded.Laughing, Pichai shook his head adding, "I'm just — I have a lot of respect for them and the team." Large Language Models are a type of artificial intelligence that can analyze and generate human language, trained by vasts amount of data

Google Ceo Sundar Pichai Says He’D Love To Do Side-By-Side Comparison With Microsoft’S Ai Models

Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty ImagesAmazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives. The new funding brings the tech giant's total investment to $8 billion, though Amazon will retain its position as a minority investor, according to Anthropic, the San Francisco-based company behind the Claude chatbot and AI model. Amazon Web Services will also become Anthropic's "primary cloud and training partner," according to a blog post. From now on, Anthropic will use AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its largest AI models. Anthropic is the company behind Claude — one of the chatbots that, like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, has exploded in popularity. Startups like Anthropic, alongside tech giants such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta, are all part of a generative AI arms race to ensure they don't fall behind in a market predicted to top $1 trillion in revenue within a decade.The partnership announced Friday will also allow AWS customers "early access" to an Anthropic feature: the ability for an AWS customer to do fine-tuning with their own data on Anthropic's Claude

Amazon To Invest Another $4 Billion In Anthropic, Openai'S Biggest Rival

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