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Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"
The claim that the AI startup “faked AI” with hundreds of engineers went viral – and I also fell for it, initially. The reality is much more sobering: Builder.ai built a code generator on top of Claude and other LLMs; it did not build a so-called “Mechanical …
Top tech and startup stories this week
Welcome to a new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories this week. Let’s take a look.
From Scale AI to Meta’s AI boss: Who is Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old MIT dropout gunning for OpenAI?
Meta has struck a $15 billion deal for a 49% stake in Scale AI, a fast-growing data-labelling startup led by 28-year-old CEO Alexandr Wang. The move puts Wang—once the world’s youngest self-made billionaire—at the helm of Meta’s new superintelligence research…
India needs more infra to train larger AI models, says Krutrim’s top executive
Ola’s AI arm Krutrim aims to build fast, cost-effective infrastructure as it scales services, despite challenges like limited GPUs and scarce Indic language data. The company plans major investments, is developing a multibillion parameter model, and launched …
Nairobi startup’s bid to be ‘operating system for global South’
Away from the heady rush to build ultra-capable, sci-fi style artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, ambitious Nairobi-based startup Amini AI is betting on the technology addressing emerging countries’ prosaic problems in the here and now. Chief executive…
Tips for making your garden a pollinator haven
In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we get some tips for making your garden a haven not just for humans, but nature too; explore the inside of a snow cave in Antarctica that's saving ice from vanishing glaciers; and learn how to stop potholes from …
