The Showdown Between Elon Musk and Sam Altman
This week, the Uncanny Valley hosts discuss the lawsuits, bidding wars, and power plays over OpenAI.
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Building an Ideation Agent System with AutoGen: Create AI Agents that Brainstorm and Debate Ideas
Ideation processes often require time-consuming analysis and debate. What if we make two LLMs come up with ideas and then make them debate about those ideas? Sounds interesting right? This…
Shikhil Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO of Astra Security – Interview Series
Shikhil Sharma is the Founder of Astra Security – a continuous pentesting platform. At the very onset of his career, Shikhil consulted a number of businesses, startups & banks on…
Perplexity AI “Uncensors” DeepSeek R1: Who Decides AI’s Boundaries?
In a move that has caught the attention of many, Perplexity AI has released a new version of a popular open-source language model that strips away built-in Chinese censorship. This…
Google DeepMind Releases PaliGemma 2 Mix: New Instruction Vision Language Models Fine-Tuned on a Mix of Vision Language Tasks
Vision‐language models (VLMs) have long promised to bridge the gap between image understanding and natural language processing. Yet, practical challenges persist. Traditional VLMs often struggle with variability in image resolution,…
Inside the Humane acquisition: HP offers big raises to some, others immediately laid off
Hours after the acquisition was announced, several Humane employees received job offers. Others were not so lucky. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Cherryrock Capital raises new $172M fund from all-star investors to back diverse founders
Cherryrock Capital, founded by ex-TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot, announced Wednesday the closing of its $172 million Fund I with an all-star limited partner list that includes JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, MassMutual,…
SAS experts dish on 2025 tech trends
The world of data and AI is evolving at breakneck speed, with 2025 shaping into a year of breakthroughs and significant challenges. From AI model hallucinations to the role of…
SmartSuite Secures $38 Million to Drive Global Expansion and Transform Work Management
SmartSuite, the next-generation work management platform, has announced a significant global expansion, fueled by a total of $38 million in funding. The investment includes a newly secured $13 million Series…
DeepSeek’s R1: A Useful Reminder
As a college educator and former IT industry veteran, I find that the hype around China’s DeepSeek R1 model is a useful reminder of three things. The first is that…