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OpenAI Teams Up with Arizona State University: Bringing AI Education to Higher Learning

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OpenAI has its first higher education customer: Arizona State University (ASU). Today, ASU announced that it’s collaborating with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot, to the university’s researchers, staff and faculty. Since then, some have reversed their bans, while others have begun hosting workshops on generative AI tools and their potential for learning. Launched in August, ChatGPT Enterprise can perform the same tasks as ChatGPT, such as writing emails, debugging computer code and drafting essays. “Right now, we’re hyper-focused on putting ChatGPT Enterprise into the hands of our knowledge core … to be at the forefront of discovery and implementation.”

First-Stage Companies and Their Backers Respond to Raised Obstacles for Series A Financing

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Seed-stage startups — and their investors — react to higher hurdles for Series A funding Lightspeed Venture Partners is formalizing its scale-up efforts, as other outfits make similar movesThe hurdle for Series A funding is a lot higher than it was a year ago — and investors in seed-stage companies are having to respond. When the market abruptly turned in the spring of 2022, late-stage companies were the first to feel the pain. The European venture firm Breega touts its “scaling squad” to help support its many seed bets. Pear VC, a Bay Area-based seed-stage venture firm, is constantly rolling out new programming aimed at supporting and educating the nascent teams that it backs. VC heavyweight Lightspeed Venture Partners is also stepping up its game.