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Sam Altman’s bet against Slack

Taken from: Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate and Alex broke the discussion into two main themes. The first dealt with early-stage companies, and the second, as you can imagine, later-stage affairs. Don’t worry, we don’t get to SoftBank for…

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November 4, 2019

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

This week Kate and Alex broke the discussion into two main themes. The first dealt with early-stage companies, and the second, as you can imagine, later-stage affairs. Don’t worry, we don’t get to SoftBank for quite some time.

Up top, we dug into Kate’s story about Quill, a formerly stealthy company that could be taking on Slack. That or something similar to Slack . Next, we turned to ManiMe, a startup in the beauty space that raised a smaller $2.6 million round to take on a market that is valued in the billions.

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Mark Zuckerberg Has a Question for AI Doomers

Mark Zuckerberg dropped a 6,500-word letter detailing his vision for “The Path to a Positive AI Future.” Equity takes a closer look at one of his arguments: If you believe AI could eliminate most jobs and humanity’s relevance, why rush to build that future?

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Mark Zuckerberg dropped a 6,500-word letter detailing his vision for “The Path to a Positive AI Future.”

Equity takes a closer look at one of his arguments: If you believe AI could eliminate most jobs and humanity’s relevance, why rush to build that future?

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Alignment Is Worth More Than a Bigger Check

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Check out the full interview on Build Mode:

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Is Meta’s AI really ‘for everyone’?

Meta says AI should be “for everyone.” But is its AI actually accessible to everyone? The Equity podcast crew digs into the gap between Mark Zuckerberg’s vision and the hardware actually required to run Meta’s new open-weight model.

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