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Elon Musk Backs Billion Dollar Artificial Intelligence Effort

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Elon Musk , the billionaire technology mogul behind SpaceX, has put some money behind--surprisingly--an effort to help developer artificial intelligence research.

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What Is xAI? Elon Musk Reveals New Startup To Rival OpenAI

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The billionaire SpaceX chief certainly knows how to build an AI company, having co-founded ChatGPT owner OpenAI back in 2015, only to sell his stake three years due to a perceived conflict of interest with his electric vehicle company Tesla. Corp” in Nevada, according to business records seen by the Financial Times. Will xAI Rival OpenAI?

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Graze, Back By Wavemaker, Aims Robotic Mowers At Commercial Market

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The company says its product is aimed at mowing large sized commercial lawns, and includes such features as GPS based mapping, computer vision, and machine learning capabilities. It's unclear what the full connection to Miso Robotics is, as the press release announcing Graze was issued by Miso Robotics.

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Parallel Systems Picks Up $49.55M For Autonomous Trains

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The funding was led by Anthos Capital, and also included Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures and Embark Ventures. The company's founders are engineers from SpaceX, Google, and Tesla. The company is led by CEO Matt Soule.

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. Are you kidding me? And this is true. LA has only just begun.

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We Need Entrepreneurs Who Think Like Revolutionaries

Startup Professionals Musings

Great entrepreneurs cross industry boundaries to find synergies, and are constantly in learn mode on several fronts. Elon Musk , for example, not only runs Tesla and SpaceX, but has several seemingly unrelated other initiatives, including OpenAI, Neuralink, and The Boring Company. Achieving the impossible is within reach.