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EDC report says Canada is struggling to convert startups to scaleups

Plus: Ripple Ventures plants flag in Vancouver as part of coast-to-coast Fund III. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will…

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A|I: The AI Times – Anthropic in talks to raise another $2B, a16z discussed backing Midjourney rival
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A|I: The AI Times – Anthropic in talks to raise another $2B, a16z discussed backing Midjourney rival

Plus: Samsung to manufacture chips from AI chip startup Tenstorrent. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big…

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Tenstorrent and Samsung
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A|I: The AI Times – Canadian AI chip manufacturer closes $100M from global backers

Plus: Luge Capital’s David Nault on making investment decisions through the AI hype cycle. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest…

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Tenstorrent and Samsung
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Samsung, Hyundai, Kia back AI chip manufacturer Tenstorrent in $100-million USD round

Tenstorrent receives major backing from strategic investors ahead of planned Series D round next year. Toronto-based Tenstorrent, which builds computers meant to train and…

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A|I: The AI Times – Public letter escalation: Bengio & Hinton sign another warning

Plus: Canadian AI computing startup Tenstorrent and LG partner to build chips. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine…

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A|I: The AI Times – Google bets on Anthropic, Ada makes more layoffs

Plus: The fight against AI art. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news…

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Tenstorrent swaps CEOs as Apple, AMD, Intel alum takes helm of AI chip unicorn
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A|I: The AI Times – Tenstorrent swaps CEOs, DeepMind exits Edmonton

The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data, and automation news from around the globe. If you…

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Canadian startup news of the week (1/29/23)

Plus: Another Shopify C-suite exec departs. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s most important news, features,…

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Tenstorrent swaps CEOs as Apple, AMD, Intel alum takes helm of AI chip unicorn
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Tenstorrent swaps CEOs as Apple, AMD, Intel alum takes helm of AI chip unicorn

Renowned chip designer Jim Keller has become CEO of Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) hardware company Tenstorrent. Keller, who first joined Tenstorrent as president and…

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