Foraged’s wild foods marketplace saw repeat customer rate increase over 1,000%
We don’t have to forage for food so much anymore; however, people not only enjoy unearthing wild mushrooms and other foods, but consumers are also equally excited to eat them. Enter Foraged, a marketplace for purchasing wild and specialty foods from independent foragers and farmers. Mushrooms are big business: Companies
Read moreFold Health streamlines admin work for value-based care providers
Abhijit Gupta and Ram Sahasranam have plenty of experience in the healthtech space, having sold their first startup, health app maker Praxify, to Athenahealth. Now the duo are focused on value-based care. Fold Health is their operating system for cutting down on the amount of admin work performed by value-based
Read moreSilo raises $32M to help food supply chain companies manage their finances
In 2012, after moving to the Bay Area, Ashton Braun set out to build a platform that could solve some of the inefficiencies in food and agricultural supply chains. He experienced these inefficiencies firsthand while working as a commodities trader in Singapore, where he saw businesses struggle to overcome the
Read moreAdobe says Firefly has now generated 1B images, takes it global
Adobe today announced that its Firefly web service is now available globally with support for text prompts in 100 languages — including Klingon (both Latin and plaqaD, in case you were wondering). The user interface is now available in 20 languages, including in German, French, Japanese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
Read moreGoogle TV adds The Roku Channel to its free, streaming TV lineup
The Roku Channel is now available on Google TV and other Android TV OS devices, Roku announced Wednesday. The free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel can now be downloaded through the Google Play Store. Starting today, users have access to over 80,000 new titles and more than 350 live TV
Read moreHow to Supplant Yourself With a Fine-tuned LLM
Create a Clone of Yourself With a Fine-tuned LLMUnleash your digital twinImage generated by Stable Diffusion.This article aims to illustrate how to fine-tune a top-performing LLM efficiently and cost-effectively on a custom dataset. We will explore the utilization of the Falcon-7B model with LoRA adapters using Lit-GPT.Ever wondered what it would be
Read moreCyber insurance startup Coalition acquires privacy assistant Jumbo
San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup Coalition is acquiring Jumbo, a mobile app that lets you control your privacy on the web. I have covered Jumbo several times over the past few years, so it’s time to close the loop on this one. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but Jumbo says
Read moreGmail brings in Calendly-style availability sharing from Google Calendar
On Tuesday, Google released new scheduling-related features for Gmail with Google Calendar integration including quick event creation and easy availability sharing. Gmail will now have a calendar icon at the bottom of the conversation view, which will have two options — “Create an event” and “Offer times you’re free”. Image
Read more7 Ways to Speed Up Inference of Your Hosted LLMs
7 Ways To Speed Up Inference of Your Hosted LLMsTLDR; techniques to speed up inference of LLMs to increase token generation speed and reduce memory consumption: mixed-precision, Bfloat16, quantization, fine-tuning with adapters, pruning, continuous batching, and multiple GPUsImage generated with MidjourneyCompanies, from small startups to large corporations, want to utilize the power
Read moreDefacto gets new credit facility to provide instant financing to small companies
French startup Defacto has closed a new securitization fund that will be used to provide short-term loans to small and medium enterprises via an embedded, API-first approach. This is a new fund of up to €167 million ($183 million) with Citi and Viola Credit acting as the lenders. This is
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