Plus, LinkedIn co-founder starts Manas AI with cancer researcher and author Siddhartha Mukherjee. And, AI recruiting startup Mercor reaches a $2 billion valuation. Julie Chang hosts.
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[00:00:30] Hier ist dein TNB Tech Minute für Monday, Jan 27. Ich bin Julie Chang für The Wall Street Journal. Tech Stocks Tumbled today after Chinese Artificial Intelligence Company DeepSeek said it trained an AI model at a fraction of the cost of its Silicon Valley rivals. NVIDIA shares fell 17%, wiping out about $593 billion from the company's market value. NVIDIA's chips have been used to power
[00:00:56] many of the leading AI models. The tech-heavy Nasdaq slid more than 3%, the S&P 500 sank 1.5%, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which is less weighted towards big tech, gained 0.7% for the day. We're exclusively reporting that LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman is teaming up with cancer researcher Siddhartha Mukherjee on an AI drug discovery startup. The company Manas AI is launching with
[00:01:23] $24.6 billion of initial funding. It'll first focus on breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma. Hoffman led the funding round with venture capital firm General Catalyst. Greylock, the VC firm where Hoffman was once a general partner, is also investing. The startup will run its AI systems and data centers owned by Microsoft where Hoffman is on the board of directors. And recruiting startup Mericor has raised new funding at a $2 billion valuation. That's
[00:01:51] according to people familiar with the situation. The company helps match experts in fields such as law and medicine with contract jobs at AI companies to help develop generative AI models. It was valued at $250 million a few months ago. For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out Tuesday's tech news briefing podcast.