Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say
Nvidia poured tens of billions into AI startups under Huang. Without him at the helm, founders and VCs are bracing for smaller checks and lower valuations.
Mirendil raises $1B in funding to speed up AI model development
Mirendil Inc., a provider of software that speeds up artificial intelligence development, has raised $1 billion in early-stage funding. The startup stated on Thursday that Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital jointly led the Series A investment. They were joined by more than a half-dozen others inc
AI agent startup LangChain hits $3B valuation
LangChain now claims 7,000 customers of its model and platform agnostic agent management tool LangSmith.
Microsoft 365 Crawls Back to Life After a 24-Hour Outage
The company says a bad update—not a cyberattack or AI—caused its servers around the world to crash.
Jensen Huang’s resignation from Nvidia won’t end his problems with Congress
Jensen Huang may be out at Nvidia, but the questions surrounding his relationship with a suspected Chinese spy—and what it might have meant for American national security—are only growing more serious. The billionaire’s resignation Thursday has done little to quiet a scandal that threatens to rea
How Microcredentials Help Engineers Build Trustworthy AI
Engineering teams are moving at breakneck speed to integrate artificial intelligence, but they are running into a formidable new barrier: compliance issues. Translating high-level AI ethics, governance, and auditing into daily operational workflows has become one of the industry’s toughest challenge
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Export-banned Nvidia chips are behind China’s most powerful AI models — uh oh, Jensen!
New research shows the most advanced AI models from China were trained on banned Nvidia chips.
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5 things Jensen Huang mastered that Nvidia’s next CEO will have to learn
The tech world loves superhuman leaders who can withstand boardroom coups and weather negative publicity. Steve Jobs navigated negative press during his tenure at Apple. Elon Musk’s transgressions are forgiven by his followers because of what he brings to his companies. And Sam Altman survived a boa
XYBench: Helping with the problem behind the question
Forget ‘sponsored’ tags in AI answers. Agent loyalty is what matters
No one loves ads, but generally people will tolerate them if it means getting something free or at a lower price. What people won’t forgive? Being lied to. A study looking at how consumers see native ads on news sites—which look similar to editorial content, just with labels—found that fewer than
Keyword Search Tied an 8B Embedding Model at Picking Agent Tools
On 200 ToolRet questions and up to 3,794 tools, BM25 ran about 40x faster than BGE-large on just a CPU, and full tool docs made it the best setup tested. The post Keyword Search Tied an 8B Embedding Model at Picking Agent Tools appeared first on Towards Data Science.
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