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1 month ago | 
ark-invest.com | Tasha Keeney |Daniel C. Maguire |Frank Downing |Brett Winton
Last week, Google announced the sixth-largest US tech merger and acquisition (M&A) transaction in history—and the largest in its own corporate history—when it acquired Wiz, a private cybersecurity company, for $32 billion in cash.13 The transaction follows a severely restrained M&A environment driven largely by restrictions imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
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1 month ago | 
ark-invest.com | Frank Downing |Brett Winton
Welcome to FYI - For Your Innovation. In this episode, Brett Winton, ARK’s Chief Futurist, and Frank Downing, Director of Research, Next Generation Internet, sit down with Aaron Levie, CEO and co-founder of Box, to discuss the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on enterprise software. With nearly 20 years of experience leading a cloud-native company, Aaron shares his perspective on how AI is fundamentally reshaping productivity, software business models, and competitive dynamics.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
irei.com | Frank Downing
Donald Trump became the first openly pro-crypto candidate to be elected president of the United States, joining 266 pro-crypto candidates in the House of Representatives and 18 pro-crypto candidates in the Senate. Come January, the number of pro-crypto members on both sides of the aisle in Congress will surpass the number of anti-crypto members.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Lorenzo focuses |Sam Korus |Lorenzo Valente |Frank Downing
Founded by Dryden Brown in 2019, Praxis just raised $525 million, led by GEM Digital and Arh Lending,2 to build an internet-native city designed to foster technological and scientific innovation. Brown described Praxis as an urban hub for promising tech startups and entrepreneurs that will advance the Network State, a crypto-native movement inspired by Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Frank Downing |Sam Korus
Are there any chip makers that can compete with Nvidia? This week, Next Generation Internet Director of Research Frank Downing, and Autonomous Technology and Robotics Director of Research Sam Korus discuss the S1 filing of Cerebras and what that might mean for the AI hardware space.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Frank Downing |Nicholas Grous
Are Meta's Orion glasses enough to convince you to exist in the metaverse? This week, Director of Research, Next Generation Internet Frank Downing, and Associate Portfolio Manager Nick Grous discuss Meta's recent product launches at Meta Connect, focusing on their AI initiatives, particularly the Llama language models, and the integration of AI into their hardware products like the Ray-Ban glasses.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Frank Downing |Brett Winton
In this episode of FYI, Brett Winton, ARK’s Chief Futurist and Frank Downing, ARK’s Director of Research, Next Generation Internet, welcome Manu Sharma, founder of Labelbox. The conversation examines the rapid evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) since the introduction of ChatGPT, highlighting how Labelbox has adapted from basic data labeling to sophisticated AI alignment using Ph.D.-level experts.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Frank Downing |Brett Winton
On this episode of FYI, ARK’s Chief Futurist Brett Winton and Next Generation Internet Director of Research Frank Downing sit down with Keith Witek, the Chief Operating Officer of Tenstorrent. With over 20 years in the chip industry, Keith shares his insights on the rapidly evolving AI chip landscape, the significance of RISC-V1 architecture, and the strategic moves that set Tenstorrent apart from industry giants like NVIDIA.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Andrew Duncan focuses |Andrew Kim |Rong Guo |Frank Downing
Last Thursday, Robinhood announced that it had acquired1 the European centralized crypto exchange, Bitstamp, for $200 million in cash. Founded in Slovenia in 2011, Bitstamp is among the oldest crypto exchanges, with more than 50 active licenses to operate across the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Asia. In addition to retail spot crypto trading, Bitstamp services institutions as a prime broker, institutional lender, and staking provider.
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May 20, 2024 | 
ark-invest.com | Nemo Marjanovic |Daniel C. Maguire |Frank Downing |Nemo focuses
During its Spring Update, OpenAI showcased GPT-4o, a natively multimodal model that spans text, voice, audio, and video with improved performance across most benchmarks. The new model will power an enhanced ChatGPT voice experience that is able to adapt its tone to different situations and facilitate use cases like real time translation. The more lifelike ChatGPT voice assistant allows users to interrupt and direct the model dynamically, setting a new standard for interactivity.
