Neura Robotics picks up $55M to ramp up in cognitive robotics
Neura Robotics, a German startup that since 2019 has been building cognitive robots — machines that possess memory, the ability to operate across a complex and changing mix of variables, and can collaborate with people (“cobots” as Neura calls them) — has raised $55 million. It plans to use the
Read moreYouth Empowerment Through Digital Skills
In today’s digital age, it is essential to equip young people with the necessary skills for their future success. By learning and honing digital skills, youth can enhance their employability and explore entrepreneurial opportunities to generate income without the need for full-time employment. From content creation and coding to AI
Read moreKorean fashion platform Musinsa bags $190M Series C led by KKR at a $2.7B valuation
Musinsa, a Seoul-based fashion marketplace, said Wednesday it has raised a $190 million round of Series C funding led by KKR, with participation from Wellington Management. The new capital put Musinsa’s valuation at approximately $2.76 billion (more than 3 trillion won), per sources familiar with the situation. The Korean fashion
Read moreMeet ChatGPT’s Evil Twin
With the continuous advancement of technology, cybercriminals are swift to exploit new tools and techniques for their malicious activities. It didn’t take long for an “evil” version of ChatGPT to emerge, giving rise to reports about WormGPT, a novel generative AI cybercrime tool that empowers cyber criminals to write malware
Read moreLLaMA 2: The Dawn of a New Era
Key differences from LLaMA 1, safety & violations, Ghost Attention, and model performance.Image generated by Stable Diffusion.Instant Access to Resources and Important LinksPaperGitHub repositoryHuggingFace models (you need to request access by agreeing to the license)Playground (using text-generation-inference)LLaMA 2 model familyMeta just released the new state-of-the-art open LLM, which is a collection of
Read moreYour Personal Copy Editor: Build a LLM-backed App Using LangChain.js and Electron
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Read moreHow AI can help your business, without the hallucinations
SPONSORED BY DOIT Large language models are all the rage. But they have a bad habit of injecting factual errors, known as hallucinations, into their responses. We sit down with Sascha Heyer, Senior ML specialist at DoIT, to learn how organizations can leverage the power of GenAI while avoiding the
Read moreShark Tank India investors fall short on pledges
Over a year following the inaugural season of the Indian edition of Shark Tank, the seven esteemed investors made good on less than half of their investment pledges, according to a new analysis, the latest in a series of criticisms for the show. The “sharks” overall invested in only 27
Read moreFormer NHTSA head blasts Cruise’s ‘Humans are terrible drivers’ ad
A former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has responded to a full-page ad taken out in several major newspapers by Cruise, General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary, that calls humans terrible drivers. The ad points to the nearly 43,000 crash fatalities in 2022 and promotes autonomous vehicles as
Read moreForerunner Ventures sees a future full of ‘digitally native franchises’
Forerunner Ventures first made its name in the venture world by betting on once-nascent startups like Jet, Bonobos and Glossier when it was far easier to build a digitally native brand. Yet as commerce evolves, so does the firm. As part of its ongoing evolution, Forerunner five years ago brought
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