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Judgment Labs cofounders (from left to right): Chief Scientist Andrew Li, CEO Alex Shan and CTO Joseph Camyre. Photo courtesy of Judgment Labs.
AI Agenda

Why Lightspeed Backed This Agent Evaluation Startup’s Back-to-Back Rounds

By Stephanie Palazzolo · May 12, 2026 7:00am PDT
Alex Shan may not have been old enough to legally buy alcohol in 2023, but he was still old enough to start his own company and join the AI boom.Shan was 20 when he was first introduced to James Alcorn, an investment partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, through a fellow Stanford University classmate. Shan, who started college at 16, had... Alex Shan may not have been old enough to legally buy alcohol in 2023, but he was still old...
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AI Agenda

Why Nvidia Keeps Backing Would-Be Competitors to OpenAI

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Nov 13, 2025 7:36am PST
As we wrote in this story on Tuesday, investors are rushing to back a new crop of research-focused AI labs (dubbed neolabs) hoping to outflank OpenAI and Anthropic. One investor, in particular, is driving most of these new startups: Nvidia.In Reflection AI’s October fundraising, for instance, Nvidia contributed $800 million out of the $2 billion... As we wrote in this story on Tuesday, investors are rushing to back a new crop of...
CEO and founder of OpenEvidence, Daniel Nadler. Screenshot via YouTube.
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‘ChatGPT for Doctors’ Startup Considers $6 Billion-Valuation Investment

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Natasha Mascarenhas · Aug 29, 2025 4:00pm PDT · 2 comments
OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information, is considering multiple investment offers valuing the three-year-old startup at $6 billion, nearly double its private valuation from a financing just one month ago, according to three people involved in the potential deal. The funding conversations are... OpenEvidence, which operates a ChatGPT-like product for doctors to find health information, is...
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Why China’s Answer to Surge AI Got a $1 Billion Valuation On Just $30 Million in Orders

By Juro Osawa · Sep 14, 2026 7:16am PDT
Unless you’ve been under a rock over the weekend, you’d know that the debate about AI safety took a big leap forward, as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Saturday called for leading AI companies to slow the development of advanced AI, drawing supportive responses from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis and SpaceX CEO Elon... Unless you’ve been under a rock over the weekend, you’d know that the debate about AI safety took...
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Applied AI

At LinkedIn, the Line Between Engineer and Designer Is Blurring

By Jon Victor · Apr 15, 2025 10:05am PDT
In an era of vibe coding and artificial intelligence that can build a professional-looking webpage based on a simple prompt, the lines separating software engineers, designers and product managers are getting blurry.At LinkedIn, for example, company leaders are encouraging engineers to use AI to speed up design work and designers to use AI to... In an era of vibe coding and artificial intelligence that can build a professional-looking...
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Revenue Lags at AI Evaluation Startups

By Sri Muppidi · Apr 14, 2025 7:00am PDT · 1 comment
Startups whose products evaluate artificial intelligence to make sure it isn’t making things up or delivering unsafe results, like Patronus and Braintrust, have caught the attention of investors. But previously undisclosed sales data from these and other startups selling evaluation software show corporate customers have been relatively slow to... Startups whose products evaluate artificial intelligence to make sure it isn’t making things up...