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With 25M users, Bluesky launches a $1M fund to take on
11 hours ago · The fund will offer grants to those building on Bluesky’s open source AT Protocol. It’s looking for tech like data privacy controls particularly for AI usage, as well as apps for …
Perplexity acquires Carbon to connect AI search to your work files
13 hours ago · Perplexity acquired a small Seattle-based startup called Carbon which specializes in connecting AI systems to external data sources, the companies
‘Reasoning’ AI models have become a trend, for better or worse
4 days ago · Two downsides of reasoning models are that they’re (1) expensive and (2) power-hungry. For instance, in OpenAI’s API, the company charges $15 for every ~750,000 words o1 …
56 US startups have become unicorns so far in 2024: Here's the full ...
Oct 24, 2024 · September . Rentberry — $1 billion: This real estate company that lists long-term rentals, founded in 2015, raised a $90 million Series A valuing the company at $1 billion.The …
Prequel is building a community-driven approach to finding …
2 days ago · The startup is building a database of software failure patterns or misconfigurations in Linux workloads. The database is updated by a growing community of engineers and …
Here are the hottest product announcements from Apple, Google ...
Sep 20, 2024 · There were more Apple Let Loose announcements as well. Read about the others. Google I/O Canadian drag queen Tynomi Banks holds the new Google Pixel 8 Pro …
This Week in AI: Tech giants embrace synthetic data
Oct 9, 2024 · OpenAI last Thursday introduced Canvas, a new way to interact with ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform. Canvas opens a window with a workspace for writing and coding …
AI and data infrastructure drives demand for open source startups
Mar 26, 2024 · A new report highlights the demand for startups building open source tools and technologies for the snowballing AI revolution, with the adjacent data infrastructure vertical …