Inside Volkswagen’s big ID.Buzz bet
Volkswagen is betting big on the upcoming ID.Buzz electric van. With availability of the vehicle still a year out, the automaker is counting on years of pent-up anticipation to not only sell the bus shrouded in nostalgia, but to have it act as a halo product to bring customers to
Read moreYC-backed Dumme raises $3.4M for its AI video editor that turns long-form YouTube videos into Shorts
Dumme, a startup putting AI to practical use in video editing, is already generating demand before opening up to the public. The Y Combinator-backed company has hundreds of video creators testing its product, which leverages AI to create short-form videos from YouTube content, and a waitlist of over 20,000 pre-launch,
Read moreYouTube TV brings the Tennis Channel back three years after removing it
YouTube TV added seven new channels to its lineup on Thursday, which includes the Tennis Channel, Magnolia Network, T2, CHARGE!, TBD, Tr3s Channel and Hogar de HGTV Channel. In particular, many subscribers will be happy about the addition of the Tennis Channel since it was removed from the streaming service
Read moreCreating a WYSIWYG Editor for My Website
A rich text editor with contenteditable and the JavaScript Selection and Range ClassesContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read moreImplementing Generative Agent With Local LLM, Guidance, and Langchain
The background is generated by [Stable Diffusion 1.1].After successfully making ReAct agent with Guidance, I continue to make a more complicated thing — the Generative agent. This study was published by Stanford and Google team on Arxiv on April 7, 2023. They attempt to make a small village full of generative agents.
Read moreNew in Rust 1.70.0 — OnceCell and OnceLock
A peek into this nice feature coming with the new version of RustContinue reading on Better Programming »
Read morePlatform as a Runtime (PaaR) — Beyond Platform Engineering
Platform as a Runtime (PaaR) — Beyond Platform EngineeringExploring approaches to organizing work and achieving better velocity and qualityPlatform engineering is something I’m personally very excited about, and we at Wix have been practicing it for over a decade (before the name “platform engineering” was coined). In this article, I’ll explain some of
Read moreThe Rise of Self-Improving AI — An Experiment With GPT-4
The Rise of Self-Improving AI — An Experiment With GPT-4Let’s look at ways to deploy a Meta AI to forge other AIs for a specific goalImage generated by DALL-EHave you ever wondered about an AI capable of refining itself? It’s a widely accepted concept that such self-improving AI could lead to an intelligence explosion. Using
Read morePitch Deck Teardown: Oii.ai’s $1.9M Seed deck
The award for the best/worst startup name I’ve seen in a while goes to Oii.ai. This company’s name is weird enough that Google Chrome insists on doing a search for the term “oii.ai’ when you type the URL into the address bar. In any case, a confusing name doesn’t mean
Read moreOkay startup names and why fintech is rebounding
Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Mary Ann and Alex were a busy pair this week, so much so that they tagged in Dominic-Madori Davis from the TechCrunch+ crew to help out. Before we get into
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