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10 articlesElon Musk’s xAI Playbook: Velocity, Spectacle, One Big Computer
Musk assembled a frontier AI lab, a chatbot and one of the largest GPU clusters ever built in a very short time. The harder question is what xAI is for.
Dario Amodei Wants AI Everyone Can Trust — Including His Rivals
Dario Amodei built Anthropic on the claim that safety and commercial success are not opposites. So far the buyers, and the market, have agreed with him.
Demis Hassabis and the Nobel Prize That Changed the Conversation
A chess prodigy turned neuroscientist turned lab founder showed the world what AI could do for science before it showed the world a chatbot.
Mustafa Suleyman’s Second Act: From DeepMind to Microsoft AI
A co-founder of DeepMind now runs consumer AI at Microsoft, where the hard problem is not whether a model can think but whether a person will trust it.
Ilya Sutskever’s Quiet Crusade for Safe AI
One of the field’s most influential researchers walked away from its most valuable company to start again from first principles with no product at all.
Mira Murati Leaves OpenAI to Build Thinking Machines
The executive who shipped ChatGPT and DALL-E to hundreds of millions now wants systems a person can argue with. The GPUs, as usual, do not care.
Jensen Huang and NVIDIA: The Bet That Built an AI Empire
Thirty years ago three engineers sketched a graphics chip on a napkin. Jensen Huang turned that sketch into the machine that trains every frontier AI model.