Why Lightspeed is going all-in on creator-led venture capital
Lightspeed Venture Partners hired Claire Zau, a seed investor with a major Instagram following, to build trust with next-generation founders. The move follows similar investments by a16z in Erik Torenberg's Turpentine podcast and OpenAI in TBPN, reflecting a trend of venture firms leveraging creators' influence.
Read full story →Anthropic confirmed it is designing custom chips for Claude. It wants engineers who have “shipped silicon.”
Anthropic is designing custom silicon chips for its Claude AI model to improve performance and efficiency at scale. The company is building an internal team and seeking engineers with experience shipping silicon products.
Yann LeCun’s second attempt at a VC fund lands with $100M and Gemini’s co-lead as a partner
A venture capital fund called 224 Ventures launched with over $100 million in assets under management, with Yann LeCun and Oriol Vinyals as partners. Vinyals previously served as Gemini's co-technical lead at Google DeepMind before joining the new firm.
A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.
Sapiom, a startup positioned between AI agents and the models they operate on, raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Dragonfly. The round brings total funding to $50 million across a seed and Series A completed within 17 months of the company's launch.