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5 days ago | businessinsider.es | Ben Bergman |Effie Webb |Charles Rollet |Hugh Langley

Google, xAI y otras tecnológicas están tomando distancia de Scale AI a toda velocidad. Apenas unas horas después de que Meta anunciara su inversión de 14.300 millones de dólares (unos 13.000 millones de euros) en la startup de etiquetado de datos, Google detuvo varios proyectos en curso con la empresa, según correos internos a los que ha tenido acceso Business Insider. Dos contratistas ya habían observado que Google venía reduciendo su colaboración con Scale AI.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Rosalie Chan |Charles Rollet |Effie Webb |Ben Bergman

Google, xAI, and other tech companies aren't wasting any time distancing themselves from Scale AI. Just hours after Meta announced a massive $14.3 billion investment in the data labeling startup, Google halted multiple projects with the company, according to internal correspondence obtained by Business Insider. Google had already been winding down its work with Scale AI, two contractors working on its projects told BI.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Robert Scammell |Riddhi Kanetkar |Effie Webb |Henry Blodget

AI tools can lower the barrier to launching a startup, but scaling them still requires technical expertise, GitHub's CEO has said. Speaking on the sidelines of VivaTech in Paris, Thomas Dohmke said over the last two years, he's observed companies go from needing convincing to use AI to "a lot of FOMO" in the market. AI coding assistants can now help non-technical founders create a startup with a small team and no external funding, he said during a Q&A at Station F, a startup campus.

2 weeks ago | share.google | Riddhi Kanetkar |Effie Webb

Facebook Email X LinkedIn Copy link An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Founders can use AI to launch a startup, but GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says they still need developers. At VivaTech in Paris, Dohmke said a startup built with coding assistants "doesn't have much value." Startups would struggle to attract investors without developers building complex systems, he said.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Robert Scammell |Effie Webb |Henry Blodget

Voice assistants are becoming a bigger part of our daily lives, and hype from frontier labs like OpenAI has sparked debate about whether talking chatbots might actually be a substitute for real human connections. But in many health and social care contexts, voice AI is less about replacing human-human connections and more about filling gaps and freeing up staff from busywork.