AI Chip Startup D-Matrix Raises $110 Million with Microsoft's Support

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced his departure at the end of the year, returning to his role as a founder. He joined Microsoft when HockeyApp was acquired in 2015 and became CEO of GitHub in 2021. GitHub currently has over 150 million registered developers, and Copilot has reached 20 million users, but it faces intense competition from AI coding tools like Cursor. Microsoft recently established the CoreAI division to integrate GitHub operations, and Dohmke stated that the team will continue to operate within this division. His departure comes at a critical time for GitHub.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently announced on a social platform that Microsoft has officially launched the revolutionary medical AI system MAI-DxO. This innovative system stands out with its unique "model-agnostic" design, allowing it to flexibly adapt to language models of different manufacturers and capabilities, thereby significantly improving their diagnostic performance. More excitingly, MAI-DxO is not only able to simulate the diagnostic process of real doctors, but also demonstrated diagnostic accuracy far exceeding that of professional physicians in tests, while greatly reducing the cost of medical diagnosis. Microsoft has released test data.
As competition in the field of artificial intelligence intensifies, the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, recently had a phone conversation with the CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, discussing their future cooperation. This information was revealed in an interview on Altman's podcast on Tuesday. He mentioned that the conversation with Nadella mainly focused on how to revise their investment terms and issues related to future equity. It is known that Microsoft is a key investor in OpenAI, and recently there have been some differences between the two sides regarding investment details, especially concerning Microsoft's future shareholding.
Recently, Microsoft was accused by several renowned authors, who claim that the company used a large number of pirated books without permission to train its artificial intelligence model Megatron. The suing authors include Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, and Daniel Okrent, who filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, arguing that Microsoft used pirated electronic versions of their works for AI training, allowing the AI to generate responses based on users' text instructions. The core issue of this lawsuit is whether the use of copyrighted materials during AI training constitutes copyright infringement.