Triton Inference Server Tips and Tricks
Things I wish I had known before playing around with TritonPhoto by Scott Rodgerson on UnsplashThis is the second article regarding Triton Inference Server. In the first one, I described features and use cases. If you missed it and don’t understand some of the concepts from this text, I encourage you to
Read moreWarming public markets are boosting the secondary market for startup shares
The late-stage startup market is sorting out how to value startups that had raised capital during the previous venture boom — Tiger Global Management recently resorted to selling individual stakes in its portfolio companies after failing to sell a basket of its stakes. Frankly, it wasn’t shocking to hear that
Read moreRobinhood acquires credit card startup X1 for $95M
Robinhood announced on Thursday that it was acquiring X1, a no-fee credit card startup, for $95 million in cash. X1, which offers an income-based credit card with rewards, raised a total of $62 million in venture-backed funding from investors like Soma Capital, FPV, Craft Ventures and Spark Capital since its
Read moreA Deep Dive Into Guidance’s Source Code
Understanding how to guide Large Language ModelsPhoto by Safar Safarov on UnsplashDisclaimer: This is a text about a library that is used to build applications with LLMs (Large Language Models). This article is rather dense, so don’t feel frustrated if you don’t understand everything at first. Beware: I might also have misunderstood
Read moreMongoDB readies its Atlas database service for new workloads
At its MongoDB.local NYC event, MongoDB today announced a slew of product releases and updates. Given the company’s focus on its fully managed Atlas service, it’s no surprise that the majority of news focuses on that platform, with improved support for AI and semantic search workloads, dedicated search nodes to
Read moreYouTube TV’s multiview feature now offers non-sports content
YouTube TV has expanded its multiview feature beyond sports, adding options for news, business news and weather content, the company announced yesterday. The feature allows subscribers to choose from four streams at once and watch multiple videos 24/7. Users can also switch audio and captions between streams. Multiview was announced
Read moreOmeat emerges from stealth with beefy tech approach to cultivated meat growth media
If you’ve been paying attention to the food tech industry lately, you saw a lot of movement in the past week around both Good Meat and Upside Foods receiving U.S. Department of Agriculture approval to commercially sell their respective cultivated chicken products in the U.S. Omeat, a cultivated meat startup
Read moreAcryl Data raises $21M to grow its enterprise data catalog platform
With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data. Data teams are overworked, meanwhile — forced to cater to the needs of disparate departments within an organization while trying to maintain data policies consistently. That’s the shared thesis of Shirshanka
Read moreTechCrunch Disrupt’s Security Stage highlights the risks of spyware, government surveillance
Governments all over the world, authoritarian and democratic, use spyware to hack the phones of activists, journalists, and political rivals who are critical of their governments. Initially, the spyware industry consisted of a few known actors, like Hacking Team and FinFisher. But over the past decade — as the technology
Read moreMotherDuck launches its DuckDB-based cloud analytics platform
Open-source database company MotherDuck, which has raised a total of $47.5 million, today announced the launch of its serverless cloud analytics platform. Co-founded by Google BigQuery founding engineer Jordan Tigani, MotherDuck’s focus so far was on building out DuckDB, the embeddable open-source database for analytics use cases. The promise of
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