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AI apps saw over $1 billion in consumer spending in 2024

Databricks closes $15.3B financing at $62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’

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Mcdonald Odijie
January 22, 2025

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AI apps saw over $1 billion in consumer spending in 2024

Databricks closes $15.3B financing at $62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’

Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously  announced $10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $62 billion valuation.

Postman launches an AI agent builder on top of its API platform

Since it was founded in 2014, India-based Postman has made a name for itself as one of .the most popular platforms for building and using APIs, with 500,000 organizations now using the service.

Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of  data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer.

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Is AI Replacing Us? Good News For Knowledge Workers.

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