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šŸ¤– OpenAIā€™s $103 Billion Valuation?!

PLUS: AI Creates DOOM Video Game, Magicā€™s New 100 Million Context Window

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In todayā€™s AI Report:

  • šŸŽ®AI Creates DOOM Video Game

  • šŸ’µOpenAIā€™s $103 Billion Valuation?!

  • šŸ§™ā€ā™‚ļøMagicā€™s New 100 Million Context Window

  • šŸ› 5 Trending Tools

  • šŸ’°Venture Capital Updates

  • šŸ’¼Whoā€™s Hiring?

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šŸ—žRECENT NEWS

GOOGLE DEEPMIND

šŸŽ®AI Creates DOOM Video Game

Google DeepMind researchers developed ā€œGameNGen,ā€ an AI-powered game engine that generates interactive video game environments.

Key Details:
  • Video games are manually written around the following Game Loop:

    1. Gather User Inputs

    2. Update Game State

    3. Render It to Screen Pixels

  • This Game Loop creates the illusion of an interactive virtual world for the player.

  • However, the hardware just emulates the manually written video game software.

  • ā€œGameNGenā€ can create entirely new video game worlds in real-time tailored to each playerā€™s decisions, including levels, characters, and gameplay mechanics.

  • ā€œGameNGenā€ can interactively simulate the classic video game DOOM at over 20 frames per second on a single Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • ā€œGameNGenā€ is the first AI-powered game engine to generate playable video games in real-time without any underlying manually written software.

  • It can theoretically generate infinite video game worlds, ensuring thereā€™s always something new to explore.

šŸšØWatch Google DeepMindā€™s ā€œGameNGenā€ gameplay here.

OPENAI

šŸ’µOpenAIā€™s $103 Billion Valuation?!

Image Source: Canvaā€™s AI Image Generators/Magic Media

OpenAI is reportedly raising a new funding round that would value the startup at more than $100 billion.

Key Details:
  • Private documents show that OpenAI shareholders plan to sell their shares at a fixed price to outside investors, which would value the startup at $103 billion.

  • Thrive Capital is leading the new funding round and will invest $1 billion.

  • Tech Giant Microsoft also plans to participate in the new funding round.

  • Itā€™s important to note that investors donā€™t own any private equity since OpenAI is technically a non-profit organization.

  • In 2019, OpenAI transitioned from a non-profit structure to a ā€œcapped profitā€ framework called OpenAI LP to ā€œraise investment capital and attract employees with startup-like equity.ā€

  • Microsoft currently holds a 49% stake in OpenAI, having invested $13 billion into the startup since 2019.

  • OpenAIā€™s annualized revenue (i.e., how much money a startup expects to earn over a year) reportedly surpassed $3.4 billion earlier this year.

  • However, OpenAI is projected to lose nearly $5 billion by the end of this year and has already spent over $8.5 billion on training AI models.

Why Itā€™s Important:
  • AI startups continue to attract investors despite reporting relatively small earnings. @edzitron posted on X: ā€œOpenAI will have to raise more money than has ever been raised to survive.ā€

  • Whatā€™s OpenAIā€™s main revenue stream? Is it subscriptions, renting access, or strategic partnerships?

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AI RESEARCH

šŸ§™ā€ā™‚ļøMagicā€™s New 100 Million Context Window

Magic is an AI startup building safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to accelerate humanityā€™s progress in solving the worldā€™s most critical problems.

Magicā€™s new Long-Term Memory (LTM) AI model, ā€œLTM-2-Mini,ā€ boasts a 100 million context window. Thatā€™s 10 million lines of code or 750 novels.

The bigger an AI modelā€™s context window, the more information it can process in a given prompt.

ā€œLTM-2-Miniā€ requires 1,000X less compute and memory than Metaā€™s Llama 3.1 405B.

šŸ› TRENDING TOOLS

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šŸ“ˆUpTrends alerts you about market trends that impact your stock portfolio.

šŸ”®Browse our always Up-To-Date AI Tools Database.

šŸ’°VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

  • WethosAI secures a $7.5M Seed Fund to offer AI-powered behavioral insights.

  • MagicDev lands a $320M Fund Round to scale frontier-scale AI models for coding.

  • BlandAI raises a $16M Series A to automate enterprise phone calls with hyper-realistic AI agents.

šŸ’¼WHOā€™S HIRING?

  • IBM (Austin, TX): Back End Developer Intern, Summer 2025

  • Palantir (Palo Alto, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • CISCO (San Francisco, CA): Full Stack Engineer Intern, Summer 2025

  • ScaleAI (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineering Intern, Summer 2025

  • NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA): Research Engineer, Generalist Embodied AI Agents, New College Grad 2024

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