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Reporter at The Information covering enterprise AI companies. Philly born. Dances like all of humanity is watching. kevin@theinformation.com

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tech journalist, traveler, photographer, lover of sports, astronomy, dogs, tropical fish, sleeper holds, the sound bamboo makes in the wind, and remastering the obvious.

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Startup Trase Raises $107 Million to Help Large Firms Adopt AI

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By Kevin McLaughlin Verified
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Source: The Information Trase Systems, a three-year-old startup that sells AI to healthcare and federal government customers like the U.S. Navy, has raised a $107 million seed round led by Chicago-based ARCH Venture Partners, according to a company spokesperson. Trase is part of an emerging segment of tech firms that are helping large and sometimes slow-moving companies learn how to adopt AI.
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OpenAI Hires AWS Partnerships Chief in Business AI Push

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By Kevin McLaughlin Verified
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Source: The Information OpenAI has hired Amazon Web Services veteran Chris Grusz to serve as managing director of cloud partnerships, a role that involves working with the startup’s cloud provider and software partners. Grusz, whose recently updated LinkedIn profile reflects his new role, spent nearly 11 years at AWS overseeing partnerships with Salesforce, SAP, Snowflake, and Databricks, among others.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Tap Salesforce Talent

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By Kevin McLaughlin Verified
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As OpenAI and Anthropic build up their teams of enterprise salespeople, they’ve both been hiring from one of the deepest pools of enterprise software talent anywhere: Salesforce. More than 45 Salesforce employees have joined Anthropic since the start of this year, and close to 40 have joined OpenAI, largely in sales and marketing roles, according to their LinkedIn profiles.
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