Neuralink Rival Raises $200M, Benable Social Media App, AWS Chip Strategy, Snap Surge

Episode Description

Managing Partner at Creator Ventures Sasha Kaletsky talks with TITV Host Akash Pasricha about Snap earnings and the company's new $400 million partnership with Perplexity. We also talk with Synchron CEO Tom Oxley about the Neuralink-competitor’s $200 million funding round and its next-generation whole brain interface, and Metropolis Co-founder Alex Israel about Metropolis' $1.6 billion capitalization and their goal of being the largest applied AI company in the world. Next, we get into Benable's word-of-mouth social platform with its CEO Tony Staehelin and The Information’s Ann Gehan. Lastly we talk to Shaown Nandi about AWS's purpose-built AI chips strategy, including Trainium, Graviton, and Nitro, and how they balance with NVIDIA.

Articles discussed on this episode:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/introducing-informations-50-promising-startups-2025

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