Elisabeth Brier
@ElisabethBrier
Digital nomading @ Forbes ✏️
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09-05-2009 03:31:03
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The #ForbesAI50 is a massive team effort, from ops lead Elisabeth Brier to reporters Rashi Shrivastava Leah Rosenbaum Lauren Orsini + our data partners Sequoia Capital Meritech Capital and dozens of industry expert panelists.
See here for our full methodology:
forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…
AI-powered search engine Perplexity is backed by tech VIPs like Jeff Bezos and counts billionaires like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang among its 15 million users. I spoke to CEO Aravind Srinivas about how the company
became a Silicon Valley darling.
forbes.com/sites/rashishr…
Finally, I took a dive into the data.
One interesting find: while all returnees (companies that made the list in 2023 and 2024) grew in employees, the average headcount across #ForbesAI50 decreased.
For more:
forbes.com/sites/kenrickc…
Meet the newest #ForbesUnder30 Europe class! Those on our 2024 list have collectively raised $1 billion in funding...and the youngest is 14.
forbes.com/30-under-30/20…
News: CEO Sam Altman has said he holds no shares in OpenAI. Startup bets like Helion, Stripe and Reddit have now made him a billionaire.
Phoebe Liu (she/her) and I poured through filings and spoke to a dozen-plus people for the closest accounting yet, in Forbes:
forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…
Scoop:
Multiple Stability AI researchers are departing, including the original coauthors on the research that evolved into viral text-to-image model Stable Diffusion.
It's the latest big blow to the cash-strapped startup. From Iain Martin and me:
forbes.com/sites/iainmart…
Grateful to win a SABEW with Iain Martin for our coverage of Stability AI.
Cannot understate how much of a team effort this was across Forbes Tech.
And ever thankful for the guidance from Alex Konrad (who was also honored by SABEW for Best Range of Work!):
The next frontier of AI? Biotech. Nvidia, Google and Microsoft have already bet billions on it. Latest by Richard Nieva and Alex Knapp details it all:
forbes.com/sites/richardn…