Messi and Ronaldo Are Building Tech Portfolios. Mo Salah Is Playing a Different Game
Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.
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A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.
Read full articleLionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are betting on AI, health tech, and startups. Mohamed Salah is taking a more traditional route beyond football.
Meta's investment in Alberta's data center could reshape energy markets, impacting crypto miners by altering power availability and pricing dynamics. The post Meta’s C$13B Alberta data center signals the AI infrastructure arms race crypto miners should watch appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
JPMorgan's move to on-premise AI hardware highlights a shift towards enhanced data control and security, impacting AI infrastructure trends. The post JPMorgan partners with SambaNova to deploy on-premise AI hardware appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Experiments in using AI to build AI show that the future doesn’t just belong to the frontier labs.
The shift to debt-financed AI infrastructure investments may strain credit markets, influencing interest rates and broader economic conditions. The post NextEra’s $67B Dominion buy highlights AI-driven energy demand shift appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
General Intuition is betting millions of hours of video game data can train the foundation models for physical AI, making it easier to build smarter robots with minimal real-world data.
Paradigm's $1.2B fourth fund broadens beyond crypto into AI and robotics, joining Framework Ventures and Haun Ventures in widening their scopes.
The post Paradigm Raises $1.2 Billion for Fourth Venture Fund appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. The new pool targets crypto, AI and robotics, widening the firm’s bet beyond pure digital-asset investing. Paradigm, a crypto-focused venture capital firm co-founded by Matt Huang, said Wednesday it raised $1.2 billion for its fourth fund to invest across crypto, artificial intelligence and robotics. Huang announced the raise in a post on his official X account, writing the new vehicle will fund investing and building “in crypto, AI, robotics, and other areas of the technical frontier.” The post did not name limited partners, disclose a first-close date, or specify how the $1.2 billion will be split across sectors. The fourth fund extends Paradigm’s mandate beyond its original crypto-only focus. On its website, the firm describes itself as “a frontier technology investment firm that builds and invests in crypto, AI, robotics, and across new frontiers from the earliest stages,” language th