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Top news pick: Mira Murati launches her company Thinking Machines Lab

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati just launched her new company, Thinking Machines Lab. Their mission is to enhance the accessibility and usability of AI while bridging the AI-human gap. On a more interesting note, two-thirds of her 30 employees previously worked at OpenAI. John Schulman, an OpenAI co-founder, is the startup's chief scientist. This goes to show the tech world's version of 'if you're leaving, take me with you!’ 😂

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> first model to pass 1400 score on the chatbot arena leaderboard

> trained on 200K GPU cluster

> according to OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy:

> most H100s in the US

> despite restrictions, H100s also shipped to countries like China (DeepSeek alleged to have 50K H100s)

> NVIDIA already released next line of AI training chips called GB200

> 525% increase in search interest in the term “ai girlfriend” over the last year

> subscription-based services expected to represent 35% market share

> in 2024, North America held 35% share with $8.64B in revenue

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