📫 AI in the news today: Struggling AI startups, Figure 0 robot, chipmakers

- OpenAI Co-Founders Schulman and Brockman Step Back
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-co-founders-schulman-brockman-010542796.html

- Struggling AI Startups Look for a Bailout from Big Tech
"More exits—either pseudo-acquisitions or real ones—are coming, investors say, as a bubble built by the excitement around generative AI is showing signs of peaking."
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/struggling-ai-startups-look-for-a-bailout-from-big-tech-3e635927?mod=rss_Technology

- Did Google Just Pay $2.5 Billion to Hire Character's CEO?
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/did-google-just-pay-2-5-billion-to-hire-characters-ceo

- Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations
Figure has unveiled its latest humanoid robot, the Figure 02.
The most notable addition this time out arrives by way a longstanding partnership with OpenAI, which helped Figure raise a $675 million Series B back in February, valuing the South Bay firm at $2.6 billion.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/figures-new-humanoid-robot-leverages-openai-for-natural-speech-conversations/

- World’s Five Leading Chipmakers Have Now Promised U.S. Investment
The Biden administration award up to $450 million in grants to a South Korean chipmaker, SK Hynix, to help build its new chip facility in Indiana
The US now has commitments from all five of the world’s leading-edge semiconductor manufacturers to construct chip plants in theUS with financial assistance from the administration
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/business/economy/chipmakers-promise-investment.html

Yahoo Finance

OpenAI Co-Founders Schulman and Brockman Step Back

(Bloomberg) -- Greg Brockman, the president of OpenAI and a central figure at the company, said he is is going on leave until the end of the year. At the same time, researcher John Schulman is leaving for rival artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. Most…