The question now is: who else? So many startups raised at unicorn levels. While LLMs haven't permeated everything yet—and that'll take a VERY long time—that hype train has stalled and eyes have shifted to more LLM-focused startups.
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W&B and LLM Stack Leaders Navigate Post-GPT Era
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W&B stuck the landing in the post-GPT era, along with several other hot startups like MosaicML and Anyscale that proved to be an important part of the LLM-powered stack (in particular for training and inference, respectively, based on people I've talked to).
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W&B Raises Capital Driven by Machine Learning and LLM Growth
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W&B didn't need to raise the round, obviously. It's grown substantially on the back of the machine learning—including LLMs. OpenAI is a customer of W&B. So it was a situation where it might as well ask for a big number, and if it didn't stick, that's fine.
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Weights & Biases $2B valuation amid AI startup funding trends
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The best example of this I've heard is Weights & Biases, which held some discussions earlier this year for a round that would value it at $2 billion. The conversations that picked up was that the price was high—even though startups like Pinecone were fetching 200x+ ARR multiples.
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Scale Donovan: First LLM Deployed on Classified Networks
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Scale Donovan is the first LLM deployed on classified networks. Unlike other companies, we are actually on the ground with operators today. We’re seeing a lot of AI tourists pretending to be AI natives. They’re not selling solutions, they’re selling vaporware.
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ML Startups Pre-GPT Era: VC Shift to LLM-Powered Ventures
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Today's issue of Supervised is about startups that jumped on the machine learning hype train… before the GPT era of machine learning. 2020-22 investments with eye-popping valuations in ML startups. Now VCs have shifted eyes to LLM-powered startups.
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DataRobot at Middle East AI Analytics Summit Saudi Arabia
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Join DataRobot at the Middle East AI & Analytics Summit in Saudi Arabia on May 11th. Come to hear #AI thought leaders discuss the latest in emerging technology and gain insights on the future of AI and digital transformation. Register now! https://
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DigitalOcean CEO Charts Sane Course Through Generative AI Craze
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DigitalOcean CEO Spruill charts a sane course through the generative AI craze It is possible to build AI without getting into an arms race with Microsoft and Google, says Spruill. https://
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Microsoft Signs First Commercial Fusion Power Deal with Helion
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microsoft becomes helion's first customer, in the first commercial deal for fusion power:
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1960s Video Predicting Life in the Year 2000
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This is a 1960s video predicting what the year 2000 would look like. #workfromhome #futureofwork #IoT #4IR #AI #wednesdaythought #tech pic.twitter.com/p78gKMpz03
— Sean Gardner (@2morrowknight) 10 mai 2023This is a 1960s video predicting what the year 2000 would look like. #workfromhome #futureofwork #IoT #4IR #AI #wednesdaythought #tech
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