GitHub annualized run rate is now at over $2 billion, with Copilot representing over 40% of revenue growth this year, making it larger than all of GitHub when Microsoft bought it in 2018, Satya said on today's earnings call
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Volkswagen Invests $5 Billion in Rivian Electric Truck Maker
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Volkswagen Will Invest Up to $5 Billion in Rivian: VW and Rivian, a maker of electric trucks that has struggled to increase sales and break even, will work together on software and other technologies. https://
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Microsoft awards cash bonuses to senior director employees
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meanwhile, Microsoft says it will give out cash awards to employees in the senior director rank and lower
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Microsoft Cloud Growth Disappoints Investors in Q4 Fiscal Results
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Microsoft fiscal Q4 cloud growth is light and investors are not liking it
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Meta releases SAM 2 and SA-V dataset for vision research
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Along with the Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), we also released SA-V: a dataset containing ~51K videos and >600K masklet annotations.
— AI at Meta (@AIatMeta) 30 juillet 2024
We’re sharing this dataset with the hope that this work will help accelerate new computer vision research ➡️ https://t.co/PkgCns9qjz pic.twitter.com/j6hDTFWH4bAlong with the Meta Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), we also released SA-V: a dataset containing ~51K videos and >600K masklet annotations. We’re sharing this dataset with the hope that this work will help accelerate new computer vision research https://
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OpenAI Adds Copyright Filters for Generated Music Content
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As I previously reported, some key features demonstrated in May (such as video feed sharing), won't be included for now. ALSO, OpenAI said it has added new filters to ensure the software can spot and refuse some requests to generate music or other forms of copyrighted audio.
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OpenAI Rolls Out New Voice Mode to ChatGPT Plus Users
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UPDATE on OpenAI's anticipated new voice mode: The company told me it's rolling it out starting today to a small group of (paid ChatGPT Plus) users.
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Hugging Face office expansion signals growing AI demand
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looks like we urgently need more space in the @huggingface office
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Meta Llama3 release and AI announcements this week
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Vous êtes en panne de lecture pendant les #JeuxOlympiques ? 𝕄𝕖𝕤 𝔽𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕤 𝕕𝕖 𝕝𝕒 𝕤𝕖𝕞𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕖 sont là pour vous ! Ne ratez pas la dernière édition de la saison avec une avalanche d'annonces autour de l'#IA : -La sortie de #Llama3 de #Meta et un Mark Zuckerberg
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Nvidia launches NIMs to accelerate generative AI applications
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Nvidia announces raft of 'NIMs' to speed up Gen AI apps: The chip giant also announced a partnership with Hugging Face for inference-as-a-service. https://
zdnet.com/article/nvidia
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… #BigData #DataScience #IoT