Earlier this year Pinecone raised $100 million at a $750 million valuation. My understanding was their ARR was in the $2-3m range, but it's already exceeded that since the round was announced. Their target is in the double-digit millions in ARR now.
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Vector Databases: The New Modern Data Stack Frontier
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Today's issue of Supervised is about the new hotness that is vector DBs and what it might mean for a *new* modern data stack. Pinecone is the harbinger on this one, but there are a variety of startups that are racing to capture the opportunity.
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Breaking Down Job Opening Trends in Tech Analysis
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Decided to break this piece out as a small part of a larger analysis I'm working on re: job openings, so more to come on all this later.
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Agent-Based Workflows with LLMs and Langchain Gaining Momentum
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The "position," though, is developing at a lightning pace. In just the past few months we've seen a big shift towards focusing on agent-based workflows using Langchain—in which LLMs and APIs are chained together to get a task across the finish line.
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Job Title Confusion in LLM and Diffusion Model Implementation
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But we might be headed to another "data science" moment where companies are split on what title neatly fits the role for LL/diffusion model implementation. Data science and data analyst are often used interchangeably at companies, much to the chagrin of employees and candidates.
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Machine Learning Engineers’ Q4 Salaries Rise to $190k
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MLE spun out of the data science title in the past few years to describe a more software engineering-centric approach to machine learning concerned with model deployment, prod, and maintenance. In Q4 base salaries for MLE ranged around $175k, current openings are around $190k.
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Job Market Analysis for Generative AI and LLM Roles
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First post out! Did some light analysis of job openings for generative AI roles (focused on LL and diffusion models). So far, companies can't decide what the specific title is—though a lot of it fits neatly into MLE.
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Nvidia releases 2B GPT model trained on 1.1T tokens
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Somehow missed this but Nvidia has a 2B GPT model trained on… 1.1T tokens https://
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In-Context Learning Discussion and Collaboration
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Anyone focusing on in-context learning? Would love to chat. DMs are open!
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Emerging AI Field Sparks Massive Tech Industry Arms Race
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I hope I can answer that, and many other, questions in an emerging field that has created one of the single-largest arms races in the tech industry’s brief history. It will birth hundreds of startups, some of which will become the next Facebook or Google.