This Week in Startups: The AI arms race escalates: Google’s $300M bet, Neeva’s paid search engine + So Syncd CEO | E1673

Jason Calacanis Jason Calacanis 2/6/23 - Episode Page

Molly breaks down Google’s $300M investment in Anthropic and how this deal compares to Microsoft’s investment in OpenAI. (2:00) Then, she dives deep into a former Google executive’s paid search engine and ShiftMed raising $200M to solve the nursing shortage. She wraps the show with an interview featuring the CEO of dating app So Syncd, Jessica Alderson. (13:44)

(0:00) Molly kicks off the show

(2:00) Google invests $300M in Anthropic

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(13:44) Neeva’s new approach to search

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(22:58) AI’s data problem

(28:27) ShiftMed raises $200M

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(34:45) Seed/Series A Interview: Jessica Alderson, CEO of So Syncd


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