Major Calder art exhibit opens in Seattle thanks to ex-Microsoft president | GitHub doubles down on AI 

A major exhibition of works by artist Alexander Calder opened at Seattle Art Museum, as former Microsoft President Jon Shirley and his wife Kim gifted their extensive collection and a $10 million endowment. Shirley spoke to GeekWire about his hope that the exhibit will draw more visitors to downtown Seattle, and he shared his views on how Calder’s style of hands-on sculpting will never be bested by today’s advances in AI. See more photos and read the story.

Amazon adds health care benefit to Prime: Almost eight months after closing its $3.9 billion acquisition of primary care company One Medical, Amazon is offering virtual and in-person care through the platform. Prime members can pay $9 a month for on-demand care through an app or visit offices across the U.S. Read more.

GitHub doubles down on AI: Building on its GitHub Copilot pair-programming tool, the Microsoft-owned software development company previewed a system called Copilot Workspace that uses natural language to help developers plan and implement projects. Read more.

API startup Duplo raises $9M: Led by veterans of Microsoft and Auth0, the 2-year-old Seattle-area company says it offers a service that is easier to adopt and cheaper to use than competing API management products. Read more. 

Tech Moves: Seattle marketing vet lands at IonQ; Microsoft principal researcher joins California startup; and more key personnel changes. 

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• Amazon is working on a new AI model, code-named Olympus, with 2 trillion parameters, twice as many as OpenAI’s GPT-4. (Reuters)

• AI that can smell? The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave a $3.5 million grant to Osmo, a Cambridge, Mass.-based startup creating a “scent platform for discovering and producing compounds that repel, attract, or destroy disease-carrying insects.” (Osmo.ai)

• Nintendo learns its lesson: The gaming giant is leaning on partnerships rather than trying to make movies by itself. (Bloomberg)