Kevin McLaughlin

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, who joined last year in its acquisition of AI search startup Neeva, is continuing to bolster his senior leadership ranks. Dwarak Rajagopal, a senior engineering director at Google who worked in a unit that builds large language models for products like YouTube and search, is joining  Snowflake next week as vice president of engineering for AI and machine learning,

Aravind Srinivas didn’t set out to earn a reputation as one of the media’s biggest tech villains. It just kind of happened. Over the summer, Forbes and Wired angrily accused Srinivas’ AI search startup, Perplexity, of plagiarizing their paywalled content. In one case, Perplexity had lifted ...

Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine startup that is reportedly raising a new round at a valuation of at least $8 billion, was a hot acquisition target last year, The Information reported Friday . X, Notion, and OpenAI all approached Perplexity with acquisition offers of between $150 million and $200 million, while Microsoft also expressed interest. Last year’s feeding frenzy showed that

Long before ChatGPT arrived on the scene last year, Amazon Web Services was developing artificial intelligence software akin to the technology that powers the hit chatbot from OpenAI. AWS had hoped to unveil the software, then known inside the company as Bedrock, at its annual customer ...

Microsoft has hitched its wagon to OpenAI when it comes to selling artificial intelligence that can understand language and write emails, meeting summaries and slide decks. Now Microsoft has found a second horse to ride in the AI race: Databricks, which has positioned itself as a kind of ...

Zoom is shaking up its technical leadership by hiring Xuedong Huang, a 30-year Microsoft veteran and one of its top artificial intelligence researchers, as its new chief technology officer, Huang announced in a LinkedIn post . The move comes as Zoom is trying to offset a customer spending slowdown by incorporating generative AI features into key product lines like videoconferencing and

Vendr, a five-year-old startup whose backers include Tiger Global Management and SoftBank, is laying off around 25% of its staff of 400-plus employees, The Information has learned. The wide-ranging layoffs, which were communicated to employees on Wednesday, include staff in sales, marketing, product management, software engineering and other departments, according to a person with direct

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has enraptured the business world since its November release and OpenAI is signing up customers eager to pay to use its artificial intelligence models in their own products. But the Microsoft-backed startup faces a surprising rival: Microsoft itself. As part of its ...

During Thomas Kurian’s nearly five years at the helm of Google’s cloud-server business, the unit has raised its profile by inking long-term agreements with companies such as Deutsche Bank, Dun & Bradstreet Holdings and Mayo Clinic. But Google Cloud has struggled to get those companies to quickly ...

In a surprising reversal, Microsoft has killed a team it formed four months ago to help customers use the metaverse in industrial settings, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The group’s roughly 100 employees have all been laid off, the person said. Microsoft created its ...