Totango and Catalyst are merging to build a customer success powerhouse
One of the interesting aspects of this deal is that no money is changing hands.
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The Download: Namibia’s hydrogen hopes, and fixing AI evaluation
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Namibia wants to build the world’s first hydrogen economy Factories have used fossil fuels to process iron ore for three centuries, and the climate has paid a heavy price: According to the International…
Coverdash gathers insurance’s biggest carriers so SMBs can get coverage in minutes
A new product for startups resulted in some big business coming Coverdash’s way, including new distribution partners and customer growth.
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This popular learning software condenses ideas and strategies from the world’s best-selling books and quickly offers key points of emphasis.
What Is the “Hottest” Franchise to Buy?
There has to be a “best” franchise and a “hottest” industry, right? Well, sorry, there is not. Franchise expert Tim Parmeter explains why.
The five finalists to emerge from the Four Years From Now 2024 pitch competition
Long ago Mobile World Congress, which we’ve been covering all week, absorbed a side event for startups, the idiosyncratically named “Four Years From Now”. The event is now well and truly inside the Borg Starship that is MWC, and every year runs a startup competition aimed at finding the ‘best startups’ around the globe. Thus, […]
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Turns out you can use kombucha to make eco-friendly thread
It’s not everyday you come across kombucha playing a starring role in potential industrial disruption. But here at 4YFN in MWC we got chatting to Laura Freixas about her PhD research project that’s using a base of the fermented hipster tea to “upcycle” organic waste into filaments. Once processed these biodegradable threads can be knitted […]
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StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs
Developers are adopting AI-powered code generators — services like GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, along with open access models such as Meta’s CodeLlama — at an astonishing rate. But the tools are far from ideal. Many aren’t free. Others are, but only under licenses that preclude them from being used in common commercial contexts. Perceiving […]
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SambaNova now offers a bundle of generative AI models
SambaNova, an AI chip startup that’s raised over $1.1 billion in VC money to date, is gunning for OpenAI — and rivals — with a new generative AI product geared toward enterprise customers. SambaNova today announced Samba-1, an AI-powered system designed for tasks like text rewriting, coding, language translation and more. The company’s calling the […]
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Diffusion transformers are the key behind OpenAI’s Sora — and they’re set to upend GenAI
OpenAI’s Sora, which can generate videos and interactive 3D environments on the fly, is a remarkable demonstration of the cutting edge in GenAI — a bonafide milestone. But curiously, one of the innovations that led to it, an AI model architecture colloquially known as the diffusion transformer, arrived on the AI research scene years ago. […]
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The Download: introducing the Hidden Worlds issue
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Introducing: the Hidden Worlds issue A hidden world is fundamentally different from the undiscovered. We know the hidden world is there. We just can’t see it or reach it. Hidden worlds exist in…