Chairman McHenry has been integral in the effort to provide entrepreneurs and startups with legal clarity. His professionalism, tenacity and ability to reach across the aisle throughout his storied career will be missed.
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Mistral AI Raises 450 Million Euros in Funding
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[#Article] @MistralAI completes a fundraising round of 450 million euros https://actuia.com/actualite/mistral-ai-finalise-une-levee-de-fonds-de-450-millions-deuros/
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Human-Level AI Always 10-20 Years Away
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Nah, that's merely what the overly optimistic young guns, AGI startup fund raisers, and self-deluded technologists.
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LaJavaness Wins AI Challenge for Energy Transition
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[#Article] @LaJavaness, winner of the AI Challenge for #energytransition organized by the Île-de-France Region and RTE https://actuia.com/actualite/la-javaness-laureat-du-challenge-ia-pour-la-transition-energetique-organise-par-la-region-ile-de-france-et-rte/
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Follow Top NLP Researchers: INSTRUCTOR Embedding Model Creators
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here are two awesome researchers you should follow: @WeijiaShi2 at UW and @wzhao_nlp at Cornell!! some of their recent work: weijia shi (
@WeijiaShi2
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http://
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Replicate confirms mission to support AI startup development
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The rumors are true. We're just chill people who want to help you make better AI startups
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Finance’s Advantage: Testing Demand Before Monetization Models
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(An interesting advantage finance has over fintech startups: you can do locally irrational things just to see if there is customer demand for it, then backfill with the monetization model required. Having a hundred million customers in your back pocket is useful that way.)
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Language Models Drive Growth for Replicate After Llama 2 Release
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Although we got our start in generative images, language models are where we see most of our growth. The week Llama 2 came out was our biggest week of growth ever.
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Indie hackers turn side projects into million-dollar businesses
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But soon, side projects started to turn into real products. Indie hackers like @levelsio and @dannypostma made apps that generate profile pictures, redecorate your house and create professional headshots. They’re now real businesses making over $1 million annual revenue.
