Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers

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Jun 24, 2025 - 08:00

Databricks, Perplexity co-founder pledges $100M on new fund for AI researchers

Andy Konwinski is pledging $100 million of his own money for a new kind of institute to fund researchers. It's already backed Ion Stoica's new lab.

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