VC Hunter Walk suggests a wild strategy for those who face a dwindling cash pile and no prospects of a fundraise: announce publicly that you’re for sale. ~ learn more
“This removes the barrier of entry to machine learning. Control 100,000+ HF models by talking to Transformers and Diffusers. Fully multimodal agent: text, images, video, audio, docs…” ~ learn more
“When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I […]
Point, click and drag, and magic happens on the screen. ~ learn more
Matt Levine, in his “Money Stuff” column, covers the legality behind the terrible merger that was Block + Tidal: “Or if you are the CEO of a payments company and you want to buy Jay-Z’s music streaming company because you […]
This is very interesting because it seems that soon the mounting hardware and installation will become the limiting factors to cost-reduction in solar power generation. “Erthos … will become the only utility-scale solar farm mounted flat on the ground to […]
Carta’s doing some content marketing with their data (which is arguably pretty good). “Total venture capital raised by startups plunged 80% from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023. Venture deal count fell 45% over the same span. Overall, Q1 was the […]
“But the uncomfortable truth is, we aren’t positioned to win this arms race and neither is OpenAI. While we’ve been squabbling, a third faction has been quietly eating our lunch. I’m talking, of course, about open source. Plainly put, they […]
This is includes multimedia to help explain quantum computing and the algorithms that might be applied with it to unravel our internet’s security. It’s pretty incredible, yet as I told the friend who sent this to me, quantum computers don’t […]
All of the AI tech we’re seeing is actually part of a sea change away from CPUs as the dominant computing platform and toward “Accelerated computing” platforms that the chipmaker offers. “For the very first time in the history of […]