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| 2025 | Aha! introduced Aha! Discovery, a new tool to help product teams manage customer interviews, centralize meeting transcripts, and link insights to roadmaps. |
| March 19 2025 | SoftBank Group announced its plan to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion, with the deal set to close in the second half of 2025. Ampere will remain an independent subsidiary with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. |
| February 2025 |
Google
Google announced the end of its minority recruitment targets and a reevaluation of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
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| February 19 2025 | CHM appointed Marc Etkind, a former NASA Communications Leader, as its next President and Chief Executive Officer. |
| February 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras announced a collaboration with Perplexity AI, enabling their Sonar model to run at 1,200 tokens per second and deliver near-instantaneous AI-powered search results.
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| February 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras partnered with Mistral AI, providing computer power for Le Chat app that can respond to user questions at 1,000 words per second.
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| February 6 2025 | Reported by Reuters to be accompanying Vice President Vance to the Paris AI Summit, a major artificial intelligence event focusing on AI's potential with representatives from around 100 countries. |
| January 2025 | Continued reduction of DEI programs in Silicon Valley tech companies amid ongoing economic headwinds and cost-cutting measures. |
| January 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras announced support for DeepSeek's R1 70B reasoning model, claiming 57x faster performance at 1,600 tokens/second compared to GPU-based systems.
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| January 2025 |
Cerebras
Cerebras and Mayo Clinic announced a new genomic foundation model at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, aimed at transforming genomics and personalizing healthcare, with an initial focus on Rheumatoid Arthritis.
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| 2024 | Reintroduced Boris Johnson to Elon Musk, as reported by the Financial Times, following Musk's nomination to the proposed Department of Government Efficiency. |
| 2024 |
California's 18th congressional district
Kamala Harris wins Presidential election in California with 63% of the vote
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| 2024 |
California's 18th congressional district
Adam Schiff wins Senate regular election with 65% of the vote
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| 2024 |
California's 18th congressional district
Congressional election held for California's 18th congressional district, though specific details of the election outcome are not provided in the given text.
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| 2024 |
Silicon Valley BART extension
Planned groundbreaking for Downtown San Jose and Santa Clara extension (SVX Phase 2).
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| 2024 |
Cerebras
TIME Magazine recognized the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-3) as a Best Invention of 2024.
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| 2024 | Projected significant growth with revenue expected to reach $350 billion, net income of $100 billion, and workforce expanding to 183,000 employees. |
| December 31 2024 | Announced his departure from Andreessen Horowitz at the end of the year. |
| December 22 2024 | US president-elect Donald Trump announced Krishnan would be Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence in his incoming administration. |
| December 10 2024 | Alphabet unveiled its new quantum computing chip 'Willow', which solved a complex problem in five minutes – a task that would take a classical computer longer than the age of the universe. The announcement caused Alphabet's shares to rise about 5%, with the stock up 25% for the year. |
| November 2024 |
Google
The U.S. Department of Justice proposed significant changes to Google's business, including potential forced sale of Chrome browser, Android OS, and restrictions on search engine deals, with a trial set for April 2025.
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| November 2024 | Andreessen spoke about debanking and the deep state on Joe Rogan's podcast, and publicly opposed President Joe Biden's re-election bid, citing concerns about potential higher taxes on billionaires and stricter regulations on cryptocurrency and AI industries. |
| September 2024 |
Cerebras
Filed prospectus for initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq exchange under ticker 'CBRS', with most revenue coming from G42.
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| September 10 2024 |
Google
The EU Court of Justice found Google held an illegal monopoly in shopping search, ordering the company to pay €2.4 billion and citing discriminatory practices in violation of the Digital Markets Act.
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| August 2024 |
Silicon Valley BART extension
The FTA made a commitment to grant $5 billion for Phase II of the BART Silicon Valley extension.
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| August 2024 |
Cerebras
Cerebras unveiled its AI inference service, claiming to be the fastest in the world, with performance ten to twenty times faster than Nvidia's H100 GPU, particularly for Llama 3.2 models.
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| August 2024 | A United States district court found Alphabet guilty of violating antitrust law in a landmark ruling, marking the first such ruling against a U.S. company in 24 years. Alphabet has appealed the ruling. |
| July 2024 | In July, Andreessen announced his intention to donate to Super PACs supporting Donald Trump's presidential campaign. |
| June 2024 |
Moffett Federal Airfield
NASA and Google began staged demolition of Hangar 3, determining repair costs were 'cost-prohibitive'.
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| June 2024 |
Cerebras
Cerebras announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies for AI compute infrastructure for generative AI.
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| June 6 2024 | Palihapitiya co-hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump, alongside Jacqueline Sacks, at Sacks's Pacific Heights home, which raised $12 million. |
| May 2024 | Ampere updated its AmpereOne roadmap to 256 cores and announced a collaborative effort with Qualcomm on developing CPUs and accelerators. |
| May 2024 |
Cerebras
Cerebras collaborated with Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and NNSA to perform molecular dynamics simulations of 800,000 atoms, achieving computation 179 times faster than the Frontier supercomputer.
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| May 2024 |
Cerebras
Named to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
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| April 2024 |
Cerebras
Named to the Forbes AI 50 list.
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| April 26 2024 | Alphabet surpassed a market valuation of $2 trillion for the first time, following the announcement of its first-ever dividend payout and a $70 billion stock buyback program, alongside exceeding first-quarter earnings expectations. |
| March 2024 |
Cerebras
The company introduced WSE-3, a 5 nm-based chip with 4 trillion transistors and 900,000 AI-optimized cores, forming the basis of the CS-3 computer.
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| March 2024 |
Cerebras
Cerebras broke ground on Condor Galaxy 3 (CG-3), which can achieve 8 exaFLOPs of performance and contains 58 million AI-optimized cores.
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| February 2024 |
FanimeCon
Convention experienced significant staff resignations due to accusations of improper treatment.
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| January 2024 | Continuing from late 2023, tech companies continued to dismantle DEI programs amid economic challenges, layoffs, and investor scrutiny. |
| January 2024 | Waymo, Alphabet's autonomous driving division, filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission to expand service in Los Angeles. |
| January 2024 | Early 2024 continued the trend of scaling back DEI initiatives in Silicon Valley, driven by economic challenges, falling tech valuations, and investor scrutiny. |
| January 2024 |
Cerebras
Mayo Clinic collaborated with Cerebras to develop a foundation model combining genomic data and patient records to predict treatment responses, initially focusing on rheumatoid arthritis.
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| 2023 | Reached over 1 million podcast downloads, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter. |
| 2023 | Appointed to lead Andreessen Horowitz's first non-US office in London, with a focus on Web3 investments and AI technologies. |
| 2023 | Wrote an opinion column in the New York Times discussing social media, AI, and future trends, predicting the rise of decentralized online spaces and highlighting platforms like Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon. |
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