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    MediaMonks opens office in Buenos Aires

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    Victor Knapp (l) and Sebastian Caramés of Media Monks Buenos Aires
    BUENOS AIRES --

    MediaMonks has opened an operation in Buenos Aires, which becomes its tenth international office. The shop launches with a team of 60 and is led by industry veterans Sebastian Caramés, Alejandro Lazos, and Richard Nieuwenhuis. MediaMonks Buenos Aires operates from a transformed warehouse in the heart of Palermo.

    MediaMonks Buenos Aires is the creative production company’s second office in South America after opening MediaMonks São Paulo in April. Latin America is the world’s fastest-growing advertising market in terms of ad spend and media investment. The growth comes with an increasing demand for high-end production, to which MediaMonks caters with 110 Monks across two regional hubs. The offices work at the intersection of film and digital and partner with local advertising, technology and entertainment companies to produce culturally relevant work for brands across the continent.

    MediaMonks Buenos Aires was set up under direction of MediaMonks veteran and director of operations, Nieuwenhuis. Together with managing partners Lazos and Caramés, MediaMonks spent close to a year building its Buenos Aires team and operations. The office has assembled an international ensemble of the top digital talent in Latin America and a group of long-time Monks from MediaMonks’ Amsterdam headquarters. 

    MediaMonks CEO Victor Knaap said, “With our new offices in Argentina and Brazil, MediaMonks is ready to serve the entire Latin American market with award-winning projects and campaigns, working with the top agencies and their brands.”

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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