NATO backs its first cohort of European dual-use startups
With both Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth making loud noises Friday about Europe stepping up to the plate in spending more on its own defense,…
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Salesforce AI Research Introduces Reward-Guided Speculative Decoding (RSD): A Novel Framework that Improves the Efficiency of Inference in Large Language Models (LLMs) Up To 4.4× Fewer FLOPs
In recent years, the rapid scaling of large language models (LLMs) has led to extraordinary improvements in natural language understanding and reasoning capabilities. However, this progress comes with a significant…
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, said to be in talks to raise $10B
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is said to be in talks to raise $10 billion in a round that would value xAI at $75 billion. Bloomberg reported Friday that xAI…
Meta’s next big bet may be humanoid robotics
Meta is forming a new team within its Reality Labs hardware division to build robots that can assist with physical tasks, Bloomberg reported. The team will be responsible for developing…
ByteDance Introduces UltraMem: A Novel AI Architecture for High-Performance, Resource-Efficient Language Models
Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) but face significant challenges in practical applications due to their large computational demands. While scaling these models improves performance, it…
Layer Parallelism: Enhancing LLM Inference Efficiency Through Parallel Execution of Transformer Layers
LLMs have demonstrated exceptional capabilities, but their substantial computational demands pose significant challenges for large-scale deployment. While previous studies indicate that intermediate layers in deep neural networks can be reordered…
Gemini 2.0: Your Guide to Google’s Multi-Model Offerings
After testing the various models in Google’s new Gemini 2.0 family, something interesting becomes clear: Google is exploring the potential of specialized AI systems working in concert similar to OpenAI.…
Rick Caccia, CEO and Co-Founder of WitnessAI – Interview Series
Rick Caccia, CEO and Co-Founder of WitnessAI, has extensive experience in launching security and compliance products. He has held leadership roles in product and marketing at Palo Alto Networks, Google,…
AI and security startups blossom on cloudy days
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week…
Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers
Back in November, we broke the news that Meta — owner of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with billions of users accounting for 10% of all fixed and 22% of all…