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  • Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity, is forming a new AI research institute backed with $100 million of his own money
  • The Laude Institute functions less as an AI research lab and more like a fund looking to make investments structured similar to grants
Andy Konwinski, computer scientist and cofounder of Databricks and Perpelexity, announced on Monday that his personal company, Laude, is forming a new AI research institute backed with a $100 millio [+3765 chars]

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