Google and Blackstone to create AI cloud group

SandboxAQ, the Alphabet spinout chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has partnered with Anthropic to embed its large quantitative models directly into Claude, making powerful drug discovery and materials science tools accessible through a natural language interface for the first time. The company’s proprietary LQMs are physics-grounded AI models trained on real-world lab data […]

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, a New York-based developer tools startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray, in a deal reported to be worth more than $300 million. The acquisition removes a critical piece of shared AI infrastructure from competitors, as Anthropic confirmed it will wind down all hosted Stainless products and restrict access exclusively […]

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Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When Google opens its doors tomorrow for its annual developer conference, I/O, it will do so as a clear third place in the foundation model race. A year ago, at Google I/O…

Pew research shows Americans are more worried than excited about AI as graduates voiced fears over jobs A former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, was met with students’ boos at a university commencement address in Arizona on Sunday when he raised the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects. Schmidt – who led the tech giant for more than a decade, acquiring a multi-billion dollar fortune in the process – was speaking to as many as 10,000 graduating University of Arizona students when he addressed the impact of modern technology on society. Continue reading...

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Tech giants are increasingly looking beyond Earth to solve one of AI's biggest growing pains: where to put all the computers.