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Nonprofit 1863 Ventures has closed, reborn into for-profit New Majority Ventures

The nonprofit organization 1863 Ventures, which focused on providing capital and mentorship to early-staged underrepresented founders, will close and become a for-profit entity called New Majority Ventures, according to its founder Melissa Bradley. The new organization will rely on a … Continue reading

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LLMs may have a killer enterprise app: ‘digital labor’ — at least if Salesforce AgentForce is any indicator

Marc Benioff says that Salesforce has become the “largest supplier of digital labor, and this is just the beginning.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Key leaders behind Google’s viral NotebookLM are leaving to create their own startup

Core members of Google’s NotebookLM team are exiting to launch a startup, sharing some details exclusively with TechCrunch. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The pope gets his first electric popemobile from Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz has delivered the first all-electric popemobile to the Vatican: a modified version of the German automaker’s G-Class SUV. Some of the biggest changes from the standard G-Class involve using the four electric motors at each wheel to carefully control … Continue reading

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Spotify users are disappointed by an underwhelming Wrapped this year

After weeks of anticipation, some Spotify users are left underwhelmed by the streamer’s personalized year-in-review feature, Spotify Wrapped — with many even going so far as to call it “boring” or a “flop.” Chief among the complaints are that Spotify … Continue reading

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See Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs generate 3D environments from a single picture

World Labs has announced a new AI feature that turns 2D images into tiny worlds. This tool, the first from Fei-Fei Li’s highly hyped startup, takes a prompt or 2D reference image and spits out a fully navigable 3D environment.  … Continue reading

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AWS pledges $100M in cloud credits to help education organizations build learning tools

AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing unit, today announced the Education Equity Initiative, which aims to provide “education organizations with technologies to build digital learning innovations for underrepresented communities.” AWS is committing $100 million in cloud credits to this effort over the … Continue reading

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AWS brings prompt routing and caching to its Bedrock LLM service

As businesses move from trying out generative AI in limited prototypes to putting them into production, they are becoming increasingly price conscious. Using large language models isn’t cheap, after all. One way to reduce cost is to go back to … Continue reading

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$132 – $149K, here’s what seed-stage founders pay early employees, based on data

Once a startup has raised its seed round, the perennial question becomes how much should the founders pay themselves and their first few employees? Kruze Consulting, a CPA firm that specializes in venture-backed startups, recently analyzed average salary ranges for … Continue reading

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AWS makes its SageMaker HyperPod AI platform more efficient for training LLMs

At last year’s AWS re:Invent conference, Amazon’s cloud computing unit launched SageMaker HyperPod, a platform for building foundation models. It’s no surprise then that at this year’s re:Invent, the company is announcing a number of updates to the platform, with … Continue reading

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