Nope! I helped convince Sanjay to join Google four or so months after I joined (and I'm delighted that he did!)
BIG TECH
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25 Years at Google: From Palo Alto Startup to Billion Users
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25 years ago today I officially started at a small search engine company, wedged into a tiny office space above what's now a T-Mobile store in downtown Palo Alto. Since then, I have had the incredible pleasure of working with awesome colleagues on software used by billions of
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Microsoft’s Ecosystem Strategy Advantage Over Google in AI
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Microsoft’s DNA is to be the keystone of the IT ecosystem. That’s how Windows won. Google’s is to do everything in house. In AI the latter has no hope against the former.
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Microsoft’s AI Spending and Market Cap Growth Surge
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The only thing growing faster than Microsoft’s AI spending is its market cap.
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Regulatory Thresholds Could Eliminate Open Source AI Models
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Once models have reached the FLOPs threshold in a few years, the mathematically impossible requirements this bill puts on devs means that no open source models could meet them, so we'll all be entirely reliant on big tech's commercial closed offerings.
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Traditional AI and Generative AI: Future Complementary Technologies
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Industry Optimism: Despite challenges, there's optimism about AI's potential. Industry leaders see AI as key in new business applications. Will traditional AI and generative AI complement each other? What's your take? Could this shape the future in the US too?
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TL20 Rebalancing: Finding Tech Winners in Market Downturn
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The TL20: Amidst choppy seas This is the largest rebalancing of the TL20 to date. After a gain of 114% in two years, handily beating the benchmarks, the recent downdraft provides ample opportunity to pick new winners in tech. https://
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California SB 1047 Bill Raises Concerns About Open Source Innovation
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There is an chorus of voices across academia, business and even government concerned about California's proposed anti-open source, anti-innovation bill SB 1047. @martin_casado has a nice thread summarizing some of these. Thank you @russellwald
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Meta Announces LLM Evaluation Research Grant Program
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LLM Evaluations are an important area of work — today we're announcing a new LLM Evaluation Research Grant to foster further innovation in this area. Recipients will get $200K in funding to support this work. We're accepting proposals until September 6 https://
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Meta Releases VFusion3D: Scalable 3D Generative Models from Video
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Meta releases VFusion3D
— AK (@_akhaliq) 9 août 2024
Learning Scalable 3D Generative Models from Video Diffusion Models
demo: https://t.co/N8HyHlF70u
This paper presents a novel method for building scalable 3D generative models utilizing pre-trained video diffusion models. The primary obstacle in… pic.twitter.com/Q4Qed2DI5xMeta releases VFusion3D Learning Scalable 3D Generative Models from Diffusion Models demo: https://
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… This paper presents a novel method for building scalable 3D generative models utilizing pre-trained video diffusion models. The primary obstacle in