Community Updates
A stream of short-form insights, takes, and news from the AI Socratic community.
Karpathy Joins Anthropic
Source: tweethttps://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312
SpaceX × Cursor
SpaceX adopted Cursor across engineering. A meaningful enterprise win for Cursor and a signal that frontier hardware shops are betting their dev productivity on AI-native IDEs. Sources: tweethttps://x
Meta × Manus Dropped
The rumored Meta acquisition of Manus fell through. Manus stays independent for now; Meta keeps shopping.
Ineffable Intelligence — Europe's Largest Seed Round
Sequoia and Lightspeed co-led Europe's largest seed funding round: $1.1B at $5.1B post-money for ex-DeepMind David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence. Silver was the lead behind AlphaGo and AlphaZero — i
LIDL Data Centers Go Brrr
🇪🇺 Yes, the supermarket chain. Lidl is leaning into data center buildouts in Europe — a reminder that capex is flowing from every corner of the continent that has cheap power and spare land. Sources