Big context windows aren’t the panacea yet – content in the middle of the input prompt is less likely to be used than if it’s on the ends. New work by team @samaya_AI “current language models do not effectively use their entire context, and that retrieval is still a crucial
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CoreWeave: Largest Private GPU Operator in North America
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"With over 45,000 GPUs in our fleet, we are the largest private operator of GPUs in North America." Numbers feel right to me https://
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GPU Announcements Are the New Fundraising Milestone
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If you want media attention nowadays, just start telling people you want/are ordering/have a lot of GPUs. It’s the new “I raised $100m round”
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CoreWeave Raises $2.3B Debt Collateralized by Nvidia Chips
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Smart GPU Financing: Collateral and Depreciation Strategies
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When actual finance guys get into AI infra, they think of actually smart ways to finance their growth re: don't sell equity for GPUs. "We negotiated with them to find a schedule for how much collateral to go into it, what the depreciation schedule was going to be versus the
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NVIDIA’s 55x Growth Since 2015: GPUs Dominating AI Market
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Overheard in the hallowed hallways of AI compute: "I have been hearing GPUs are not designed for AI since 2015 – during that time NVIDIA 10x (at least) its market cap" I actually checked. It's not 10x since 2015, it's…55x!
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Union Square Ventures cuts VC fund valuations amid market shift
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"This will be the new normal for the next 18 months..the smarter guys like USV are going to start doing this and that's going to start a cascade." https://
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San Francisco: Generator and Accelerator of New Technologies
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SF is such an amazing generator, adopter and accelerator of the new new thing.
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Stay With What Works: Practical Business Strategy for AI
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stay with whatever works and prints you money – if either of them stop, then solve problem