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AI21 Labs’ new AI model can handle more context than most
Increasingly, the AI industry is moving toward generative AI models with longer contexts. But models with large context windows tend to be compute-intensive. Ori Goshen, the CEO of […]
Viam looks beyond robotics with its no-code automation platform
Since the last time we spoke, Viam didn’t pivot exactly, according to founder and CEO Eliot Horowitz — it’s more of a “rebrand.” Roughly six months ago, the […]
Picogrid scores new funding to connect the military’s stovepipe systems
Autonomous systems have become essential to military operations around the world, but there’s almost no infrastructure available to unify these systems at scale. As a result, operators in […]
Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS
Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, the lucrative cloud arm of Amazon, have a surprising amount in common. For starters, their core businesses emerged from a happy accident. For […]
After raising $1.3B, Inflection got eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft
In June 2023, Inflection announced it had raised $1.3 billion to build what it called “more personal AI.” The lead investor was Microsoft. Today, less than a year […]
Sony PlayStation 5 Pro leak: New PS5 Pro console may arrive for the 2024 holiday season
New details are known about the upcoming Sony PS5 Pro, courtesy of a document leak.
This Week in AI: Midjourney bets it can beat the copyright police
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in […]
Pornhub says, ‘Bad Texas! No smut for you!’
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WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service
When the open source streaming service, Apache Kafka, was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. The notion of […]