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The Cloud 100 2024: Submissions Open For List Of Cloud Computing’s Best Private Companies
Nominate your company for the ninth annual Forbes Cloud 100 list now through May 7, 2024.
Anrok Hits A $250 Million Valuation With A Mundane Idea: Calculating Sales Tax
In 2019, recovering venture capitalist Michelle Valentine came upon an idea she wanted to invest in: a business to handle the rote work of managing sales tax on softwa...
AI’s Most Promising Startups Are Getting Younger And Leaner
This year’s AI 50 list shows that artificial intelligence is helping companies achieve more with less: the median headcount for an AI 50 startup was 89 employees, down from 150 last year.
How Forbes Compiled The 2024 AI 50 List
The list is compiled in collaboration with data partners Sequoia and Meritech Capital.
$10 Billion Productivity Startup Notion Wants To Build Your AI Everything App
Notion cofounder Ivan Zhao captivated Silicon Valley investors and everyday consumers alike with a sleek productivity app that went so viral its servers crashed. Now, the profitable startup’s CEO sees a rare opening to break Microsoft and Google’s dominance in the workplace by going early and aggressive on AI.
How Stability AI’s Founder Tanked His Billion-Dollar Startup
Unpaid bills, bungled contracts and a disastrous meeting with Nvidia's kingmaker CEO. Inside the stunning downfall of Emad Mostaque.
Stability AI Founder Emad Mostaque Plans To Resign As CEO, Sources Say
Mostaque has told a number of people close to him that he plans to step down as chief executive of the once buzzy generative AI startup known for Stable Diffusion.
Key Stable Diffusion Researchers Leave Stability AI As Company Flounders
Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup.
AI Unicorn Anthropic Releases Claude 3, A Model It Claims Can Beat OpenAI’s Best
Cofounders Dario and Daniela Amodei told Forbes Anthropic’s new enterprise-focused model, released Monday, outperforms rivals GPT-4 and Google’s Gemini 1.0 Ultra.
This Startup Wants To Power The Next Big Wave Of AI: Actually Making It Useful
Baseten raised $40 million to make it easier for companies to actually deploy AI applications in a practical way after growing its revenue to several million dollars.