founder

Larry Page, founder of Google, has a new company and a goal between eyebrows and eyebrows: manufacture products with AI

by

While Serguéi Brin focuses in stepping on the accelerator To position Google in his career for AI, Larry Page is already exploring the industrial profits that future artificial intelligence models will have. As published The InformationPage would be behind Dynatoms, a startup focused on applying artificial intelligence algorithms to the DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE OF PRODUCTS optimizing the Use of materials and tools. Of artificial intelligence to industrial intelligence As It echoed TechcrunchLarry Page’s new project would not be linked to Google (except for its founder), and seeks to create “highly optimized” designs through the use of AI models to accelerate processes that usually require months of human work. This initiative marks the return of Page at the head of a technological project, then staying for several years in the role of discrete investor of aeronautics companies As Kitty Hawk. No details about Dynatoms activities are not known yet, but for what he has published The Informationits approach would not be limited to software: the platform would directly integrate the designs generated by In factories to start their industrial production. This connection would close the cycle from the design of a product to its chain manufacture, something innovative in a sector where both stages are usually managed separately. Page is not alone in this adventure. According to the investigations of The InformationHe is accompanied by Chris Anderson, former director of Kitty Hawk technology and hardware expert. The rest of the team would be formed by specialized engineers in AI, robotics and manufacturing systems. Since it is a very recent project in which Larry Page is still working, the names of these specialists are not known, but given the trajectory of both founders, it would not be unreasonable to find former Alphabet and Kitty Hawk employees. Early, but with a lot of future Although Page has been working in Dynatoms for months, the startup still has no launch date or confirmed customers. Sources close to the project cited by The Information They indicate that its founders prioritize technology before their presentation to the public. This contrasts with the usual approach in Silicon Valley de Lanz minimally viable productsalthough then they have to close them precipitously. According to a McKinsey studythe market potential to implement the supply chain and manufacturing could contribute up to 3.5 billion annually to the manufacturing sector by 2030. If Dynatoms manages to climb, he could compete with giants such as Autodesk or even with the generative tools of companies such as Openai, but specializing in concrete industrial applications. But it will not be alone in that area. Startups such as Orbital Materials is already using the for Develop new materials For the industry. Physicsx They are applying iA to optimize product design complex Like cars or aircraft using digital twins to accelerate its development. All of them are working to optimize processes with tools that do not even exist, but when they arrive, they will be at the forefront in their application. In Xataka | There was a time when Larry Page would have donated all his fortune to Elon Musk to colonize Mars: today they don’t even talk In Xataka | Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google and became millionaires. Now they are dedicated to collecting gigantic airplanes

The founder of Deepseek has been placed in just two weeks among the greatest fortunes of Asia. But it depends on who you ask

by

The presentation of Deepseek R1China’s artificial intelligence model has shaken the foundations on which AI in the West was being built. A priori, this model would have achieved similar results to those of OpenAi, but with only a fraction of its cost of development, something that has then had its nuances. All this Financial tsunami In AI has left a clear winner: Liang Wenfeng, CEO of Deepseek and one of the seven founders of the company. Thanks to the success of its AI model, Wenfeng has become a Milmillonario, although no one knows for sure if their fortune has an assessment of 1,000 million or 150,000 million. It depends on Who is asked. The key is Deepseek. In relative terms, the Fortuna Liang Wenfeng At least 84% of the value assigned to Deepseek amounts to 84%. Therefore, the key is to determine how much Deepseek is valued to establish the fortune of its main owner. The problem is that, just like companies like x Openai, Spacex, Neuralink and many others, the company’s value is not public by not being quoted in the stock market as It is NvidiaApple or Microsoft. In this case, the market price Determine the value of the company. However, in the case of private companies, that value is given by third parties. For example, OpenAi’s different financing rounds have served as a framework to establish an assessment of the company, placing it around 157,000 million, according to Forbes. The same goes for Spacex that, after its last financing round, its investors estimated that the company was worth 350,000 million dollars, As reported Bloomberg. With China it is not so easy. Depseek was created as a secondary research project promoted by Wenfeng within its High-Flyer Investment Company. As published by Forbes, Depseek does not seem to have received third -party investments, so there is no external agent that can offer a founded assessment. Given the opacity of the investments of Chinese companies, the tracking of new assessments becomes complicated. The only alternative that remains to know the estimated value is comparing it with its equivalent rivals. Approximate estimates. As published by Bloomberg, seven AI experts and startup founders have estimated that Deepseek’s value would remain between 2,000 million and 30,000 million dollars, although there are more extreme assessments that give figures between 1,000 and 150,000 million dollars. “It is basically impossible to give a convincing response in this case because it is a private and secret company that is financed internally with the commercial gains of the founder,” declaredBloomberg Jeffrey Emanuel, founder and executive director of the Blockchain Pastel Network Startup. One from Those rival companies which can serve as a reference is Anthropic, which thanks to Amazon financial support He has achieved one 60,000 million assessment. The French Mistral AI also would enter that comparisonand its valuation has been 6,000 million dollarsso the most moderate average range seems to be the closest to the reality of the Chinese company. Estimation of the fortune of Liang Wenfeng. Based on those most conservative estimates, Wenfeng’s fortune would move between 1,680 million and 25.2 billion, only in regards to his participation in Deepseek. However, we must not forget that Depseek is only Wenfeng’s “Side Project”, and that his main job is in high-flyer. Based on financial records, Forbes estimated That the Wenfeng Investment Fund has about 8,000 million in assets, so the company values ​​in about 240 million dollars. Therefore, participation in High-Flyer would contribute about 180 million dollars more to the fortune of Liang Wenfeng, placing it in the select Milmillonarios Club that They have made fortune thanks to the AI. In Xataka | The next border of the super farms is no longer to be Milmillonarios, is to be Billionaires: Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are candidates Image | Deepseek

Microsoft has canceled the development of Military Hololens. Who takes over: the founder of Oculus

by

It ran the years 2015-2017 when Microsoft began to invest in a big virtual and mixed. The Redmond company integrated this technology until the deepest in Windows 10 and promoted What Meta and Apple call “Metaverso” and “Spatial computing“, respectively. However, its proposal has been diluted over time and now the company has other open fronts: the AI ​​and the cloud. The Hololens 3 They were canceled in 2022 and the production of the Hololens 2 stopped at the end of last year. The question is what would happen to ivas (Integrated visual increase system) AKA The Hololens -based helmet that Microsoft was developing for the US army. Today, we finally have an answer: the project is in the hands of Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus Rift and Anduril. Context. The development of IVA dates from 2018 and, for the moment, has not left the test phase. It does not seem to be a simple project and has not been exempt from criticism. In fact, as soon as the projects of Hololens ask Microsoft to cancel the contract (valued at about 22,000 million dollars) because the product was going to “help people to kill.” Satya Nadella came out in defense of it, claiming that Microsoft “will not hide technology to the institutions that we have chosen in democracies to protect the freedoms we enjoy.” What is ivas? It’s a Hololens -based reality visor based on Hololens For military purposes. The idea is to improve the vision of soldiers by adding information layers superimposed on the image itself. For example, thermal vision, night vision, maps, routes, etc. Although at first it was intended only to infantry, later versions added the possibility of controlling drones and helicopters remotely. Its launch was scheduled for 2021, but different problems and delays have led the date to this year, 2025. We will see. Image | Microsoft Microsoft gets off the car … Despite the lucrative of the contract, the reality is that the Hololens project has been very deflated over time. So much so that in October last year Microsoft put an end to him. The company stopped producing the Hololens 2, but announced that it would support until 2027 and, here is the crumb, which remained “totally committed to the IVA program of the United States Department of Defense.” … And Palmer Luckey is uploaded. Microsoft He has just announced A collaboration agreement with Anduril Industries, the Palmer Luckey defense company, founder and creator of Oculus Rift. As Microsoft has detailed, the objective is to “boost the following phase of the IVAS Program of the United States Army.” Image | Microsoft The agreement is aware of the approval by the Department of Defense, but from now on “Anduril will assume the supervision of production, the future development of hardware and software, and delivery deadlines.” This agreement also establishes “Microsoft Azure as Anduril’s favorite hyperscale cloud for all IVA -related workloads and Anduril’s technologies.” The idea, of course, is to take advantage of the points where each company is strong. Anduril knows about defense and military requirements, while Microsoft has taken the opportunity to get chest from Azure (its cloud) and its artificial intelligence capabilities. Cover image | Microsoft In Xataka | The greats of AI are competing for a cake as juicy as dangerous: that of the military industry

Of algorithmic trader to revolutionize AI. This is the story of Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Deepseek

by

In just two weeks, an unknown 40 -year -old Chinese engineer has shaken Silicon Valley and has monopolized the world conversation about AI. It has even caused a global stock earthquake. Liang Wenfeng has achieved something that seemed impossible: Develop an AI model that rivals Openai to a fraction of its cost. If we move the focus, what has actually done is to launch an order to the American domain in Ia. Liang is not a technological entrepreneur to use. Born on the southern coast of China, in Zhanjiang, he began his career studying electronic engineering at the University of Zheijang. With Bright notes. In 2015 co -founded High-Flyera quantitative investment fund that managed more than $ 13,000 million using algorithms of Machine Learning To operate in the stock market. What distinguishes Liang is His unusual way of guiding his career. While most Chinese companies of AI focused on marketing products, He opted for research Pure and hard. “In the last thirty years, (the Chinese technology industry) has only emphasized to make money and ignored innovation,” he told China Waves as collected Reuters. “Innovation is not driven only by the business, it also needs curiosity and desire to create.” This vision materialized in 2021, when it began to accumulate thousands of Nvidia chips for a project without name, just before the United States restricted its sale to China. Two years later he founded Deepseek with just over one million dollars of initial capital. Today, They say local mediaDeepseek has only 140 employees. That is 10% of the OpenAI size, for example. Deepseek’s success He has driven Liang in his country. On January 20, he was in a closed door with Li Qiang, the prime minister. Liang was the youngest in the room. His meteoric ascent, going from a very limited fame to his field to being the epicenter of the global technological conversation in a few days, he has also put him in the trigger for those who question that Deepseek has been able to develop V3 and R1 only with the declared infrastructure. This is what Alexandr Wang, CEO of Scale AI, suggested in statements to CNBCwhen he assumed that his access to Chips had been much older but could not admit it for commercial restrictions. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, It was more comprehensive and even magnanimousbut not condescending. For Liang, The goal goes beyond competing with Silicon Valley. As explained to 36krseeks that China “gradually transit” to be a beneficiary to a taxpayer in the AI ​​industry. “What we see is that China cannot always be in a follower,” he said. “We often say that there is a gap of one or two years between China and American AI, but the true gap is between originality and imitation.” With a discreet profile and a disagreement image That has nothing to do with Altman, Zuckerberg and company, some liang companions They have described it as a pragmatic leader most motivated by his curiosity than for wealth or fame. It fits with seen so far. His commitment to research rather than by commercial applications reveals A certain background of your personality: It puts curiosity for long -term knowledge to immediate benefits. And perhaps that is what has changed the role of China in the Global Race of AI. Outstanding image | X, Xataka, Deepseek In Xataka | I have tried Deepseek on the web and in my Mac. Chatgpt, Claude and Gemini have a problem

Log In

Forgot password?

Forgot password?

Enter your account data and we will send you a link to reset your password.

Your password reset link appears to be invalid or expired.

Log in

Privacy Policy

Add to Collection

No Collections

Here you'll find all collections you've created before.