Nvidia hits $4 trillion market cap

👋 Good morning/evening (wherever you are). It’s Wednesday.

Nvidia just became the first company in history to hit a $4 trillion market cap.

Its chips power the global AI boom, and it now leads the S&P 500 by weight.

The race to $5 trillion has officially started.

OK let’s keep going ↓

🔥 Creative pulse

The first sci-fi film with AI dubbing just launched in the US.

It’s called “vubbing” (visual dubbing). 

Watch the Skies is originally a Swedish film. The cast re-recorded their lines in English, and AI altered their lip movements to match.

Watch the video.

💡 Here’s what you should know

• OpenAI web browser is coming soon

  The upcoming browser challenges Google Chrome by integrating a chat interface and AI agents, while leveraging Google’s own open-source codebase for faster deployment.

• Perplexity debuts Comet browser for $200/month users

  Comet gives users agent-style browsing with automated actions and summaries, but access is gated behind Perplexity’s top-tier subscription.

• Microsoft invests $4B to train the next AI workforce

  Microsoft is investing $4 billion into global AI education and workforce training through its new Elevate program, aiming to help 20 million people earn AI credentials and support nonprofits, schools, and labor groups worldwide.

• Google brings Gemini to Wear OS smartwatches

  Gemini now runs on Wear OS 4+ watches with voice control and Google app integration.

• Hugging Face launches open source AI robot kits

  The Reachy Mini robots are programmable in Python and connected to the Hugging Face Hub for hands-on AI development.

• Turkey orders ban on Grok chatbot

  A Turkish court ordered Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok to be blocked after it posted offensive content about President Erdogan and Atatürk. The ruling follows broader concerns over Grok’s politically charged responses.

• California advances AI safety transparency bill

  SB 53 would require companies like OpenAI and Google to publish safety protocols, report critical AI incidents, and support public cloud access for researchers through CalCompute.

💰 The numbers

• Groq is in talks to raise $300–500M at a $6B valuation, targeting expansion of its AI-chip production.

• Meta lured Apple’s former AI model chief with a compensation package worth over $200M, part of its aggressive push to build a top-tier superintelligence team.

• MaintainX closed a $150M Series D round at a $2.5B valuation, scaling its AI-powered industrial ops platform.

• aiOla secured $25M Series A, including strategic investment from United Airlines Ventures for its conversational voice AI.

• Nominal Ltd. raised $20M to expand its AI-native ERP and finance automation platform.

• Augmentus closed an $11M Series A+ round to develop its no-code AI robotics platform for manufacturing.

• ZeroEntropy raised a $4.2M seed round to build retrieval‑augmented search infrastructure for LLMs.

🧠 Thought starters

When’s the last time a major company bragged about AI savings?

Microsoft just did…and it might set a dangerous precedent.

Bloomberg reports AI saved Microsoft over $500 million last year in its call centers alone.

More details:

• 35% of new product code now comes from AI

• Salespeople using Copilot close deals faster and generate 9% more revenue

• AI is handling smaller customers and already driving tens of millions

• Microsoft cut 15,000 jobs this year, including 9,000 last week

They claim AI wasn’t the main reason for the layoffs.

But the signal is clear: AI savings are becoming a corporate badge of honor.

😂 Meme of the day

Thanks for reading,

Eddie

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