Databricks’ GPT rival and who’s investing in ‘underdog’ founders

Whats up, and welcome to Fairness, a podcast concerning the enterprise of startups, the place we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. That is our Friday episode, by which we dig via essentially the most important tales and themes from the week.

Because the week involves a detailed, we’re additionally shutting the ebook on the trial of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, the erstwhile crypto baron who’s heading to jail for 25 years. However whereas the SBF information was a giant deal, there was so very rather more to cowl on right now’s information roundup episode of Fairness.

With Kirsten Korosec, Mary Ann Azevedo and Alex Wilhelm aboard this week, the crew dug into Robinhood’s new bank card and what it could actually inform us concerning the technique of main tech firms, Fisker’s newest woes and even Databricks’ new AI mannequin that it spent $10 million to spin up.

However that wasn’t sufficient. We additionally dug into two firms constructing startups targeted round children. One needs to assist tots discover ways to produce music, whereas the opposite is working to scale back waste and assist dad and mom care for his or her children on a finances. Then, to wrap up, a take a look at simply who unicorn founders actually are, and a brand new $100 million fund to again local weather tech.

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