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Chris McKay

Chris McKay is the founder and chief editor of Maginative. His thought leadership in AI literacy and strategic AI adoption has been recognized by top academic institutions, media, and global brands.

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Odyssey Raises $18M to Build AI Worlds Using Backpack-Mounted Cameras

Venture Capital Startups

Odyssey Raises $18M to Build AI Worlds Using Backpack-Mounted Cameras

By Chris McKay • Nov 13, 2024

11x Raises $50M Series B led by a16z for AI "Digital Workers"

Venture Capital Startups

11x Raises $50M Series B led by a16z for AI "Digital Workers"

By Chris McKay • Nov 13, 2024

IBM's Latest Quantum Computers Can Run Complex Operations 50x Faster

IBM Quantum Computing

IBM's Latest Quantum Computers Can Run Complex Operations 50x Faster

By Chris McKay • Nov 13, 2024

Perplexity Begins Experimenting With Ads

Perplexity Begins Experimenting With Ads

By Chris McKay • Nov 13, 2024

Writer Raises $200M to Scale Enterprise Generative AI Platform

Venture Capital Startups

Writer Raises $200M to Scale Enterprise Generative AI Platform

By Chris McKay • Nov 13, 2024

Anysphere Acquires Supermaven to Boost Cursor's Capabilities

Startups

Anysphere Acquires Supermaven to Boost Cursor's Capabilities

By Chris McKay • Nov 13, 2024

NVIDIA and SoftBank to Build Japan's AI Grid

NVIDIA SoftBank Japan

NVIDIA and SoftBank to Build Japan's AI Grid

By Chris McKay • Nov 12, 2024

Robin AI Lands $25M as Customers Double Down as Investors

Robin AI Lands $25M as Customers Double Down as Investors

By Chris McKay • Nov 12, 2024

Voice AI Startup Kardome, raises $10M, Announces Regional HQ in South Korea

Venture Capital Startups

Voice AI Startup Kardome, raises $10M, Announces Regional HQ in South Korea

By Chris McKay • Nov 12, 2024

Google DeepMind Makes AlphaFold 3 Open Source for Academia

Google Biotech & Health

Google DeepMind Makes AlphaFold 3 Open Source for Academia

By Chris McKay • Nov 11, 2024

You Can Now Generate Themes for Outlook with AI

Microsoft

You Can Now Generate Themes for Outlook with AI

By Chris McKay • Nov 8, 2024

Amazon Eyes Second Multibillion-Dollar Anthropic Deal, Pushes In-House Chips

Anthropic Amazon Venture Capital

Amazon Eyes Second Multibillion-Dollar Anthropic Deal, Pushes In-House Chips

By Chris McKay • Nov 8, 2024

TSMC Halts Advanced AI Chip Production for Chinese Tech Giants

Chips

TSMC Halts Advanced AI Chip Production for Chinese Tech Giants

By Chris McKay • Nov 8, 2024

The Beatles make Grammy History with AI-Assisted Final Song

Media & Entertainment

The Beatles make Grammy History with AI-Assisted Final Song

By Chris McKay • Nov 8, 2024

Google Begins Rolling Out AI-Powered Vids app

Google

Google Begins Rolling Out AI-Powered Vids app

By Chris McKay • Nov 8, 2024

Mistral Introduces New Moderation API to Enhance AI Safety

Mistral

Mistral Introduces New Moderation API to Enhance AI Safety

By Chris McKay • Nov 7, 2024

Anthropic, Palantir, and AWS Partner to Bring Claude AI Models to U.S. Defense Agencies

Anthropic Palantir Amazon

Anthropic, Palantir, and AWS Partner to Bring Claude AI Models to U.S. Defense Agencies

By Chris McKay • Nov 7, 2024

NVIDIA and Hugging Face Team Up to Democratize Robot Development

NVIDIA Hugging Face Robotics

NVIDIA and Hugging Face Team Up to Democratize Robot Development

By Chris McKay • Nov 6, 2024

XPENG Unveils Iron Humanoid Robot, Already Operational in EV Factory

Robotics China

XPENG Unveils Iron Humanoid Robot, Already Operational in EV Factory

By Chris McKay • Nov 6, 2024

Tencent Unveils Hunyuan-Large, an Open-Source MoE Model that Outperforms Llama

China Open Source

Tencent Unveils Hunyuan-Large, an Open-Source MoE Model that Outperforms Llama

By Chris McKay • Nov 5, 2024

Saudi Arabia Partners with Google Cloud to Launch Advanced AI Hub

Google

Saudi Arabia Partners with Google Cloud to Launch Advanced AI Hub

By Chris McKay • Nov 5, 2024

Amazon's Prime Air Launches Drone Deliveries in Phoenix

Amazon Ecommerce

Amazon's Prime Air Launches Drone Deliveries in Phoenix

By Chris McKay • Nov 5, 2024

Scale AI and Meta Introduce Defense Llama: A Custom AI Model for U.S. National Security

Scale Meta Military & Defense

Scale AI and Meta Introduce Defense Llama: A Custom AI Model for U.S. National Security

By Chris McKay • Nov 5, 2024

Amazon and Meta's Nuclear Energy Dreams for Data Centers Hit Regulatory Roadblocks

AI Infrastructure Meta Amazon AI Policy

Amazon and Meta's Nuclear Energy Dreams for Data Centers Hit Regulatory Roadblocks

By Chris McKay • Nov 4, 2024

NVIDIA's New AI Blueprint Makes it Easy to Search and Summarize Video

NVIDIA

NVIDIA's New AI Blueprint Makes it Easy to Search and Summarize Video

By Chris McKay • Nov 4, 2024