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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reuters.com/technology/cor
eweave-raises-23-billion-debt-collateralized-by-nvidia-chips-2023-08-03/
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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://
businessinsider.com/union-square-v
entures-cut-value-of-vc-funds-2023-7?r=US&IR=T
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Microsoft Discloses Dynamics Revenue, Challenging Salesforce
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look out, Salesforce – Microsoft has begun disclosing annual revenue for Dynamics, rather than just lumping it into the Other category
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Microsoft expands into global capital markets with LSEG stake
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'Microsoft took a 4 per cent stake in LSEG in December last year and secured a board seat as part of a 10-year strategic partnership, marking the latest in a series of incursions by Big Tech into the operation of global capital markets.' https://
ft.com/content/e380f4
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Can AI Replace Billionaires? Latest PlusPlus Podcast Episode
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Can #AI replace billionaires? We explore this and other questions in the latest episode of the PlusPlus #podcast!
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Lessons from Building No-Code Data Analytics Platform
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Overview of lessons learned: https://
cascade.io What we learned about the data and analytics market: https://
cascade.io/epilogue/the-d
ata-and-analytics-market
… What we learned about building a "no-code" toolkit: https://
cascade.io/epilogue/build
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Employer Difficulty Filling Roles Reaches 17-Year High
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What number's at its highest in 17 years? 8 out of 10 employers report difficulty filling key roles. What's the solution? Featured in @Forbes by @tynanwrites, our CFO @K3vinRubin talks #upskilling and #reskilling, which 71% of global orgs rely on. Read: https://
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Hugging Face Joins PyTorch Foundation as Premier Member
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Hugging Face is now part of the PyTorch Foundation as a premier member We have been collaborating with the PyTorch team for the past four years and are committed to supporting the project. We share an objective: to lower the barrier of entry to ML. https://
pytorch.org/blog/hugging-f
ace-joins/?hss_channel=tw-776585502606721024
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