Waymo employees can hail fully autonomous rides in Atlanta now
Waymo said it is launching fully driverless robotaxi rides for employees in Atlanta, an important step before the company opens the service up to members of the public later in…
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Yandex Develops and Open-Sources Perforator: An Open-Source Tool that can Save Businesses Billions of Dollars a Year on Server Infrastructure
Yandex, a global tech company, develops and open-sources Perforator, an innovative tool for continuous real-time monitoring and analysis of servers and applications. Perforator helps developers identify the most resource-intensive sections…
Decoupling Tokenization: How Over-Tokenized Transformers Redefine Vocabulary Scaling in Language Models
Tokenization plays a fundamental role in the performance and scalability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite being a critical component, its influence on model training and efficiency remains underexplored. While…
Factorial Capital takes a fresh approach to finding startups with a technical edge
To make smart bets on the current wave of startups, Matt Hartman thinks venture capitalists will need a deeper understanding of the tech those startups are building. Hartman (pictured above)…
US Justice Department sues to block HPE’s $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks
U.S. prosecutors are seeking to block the deal citing antitrust concerns. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
ElevenLabs, the hot AI audio startup, confirms $180M in Series C funding at a $3.3B valuation
ElevenLabs, one of the more popular startups working in the field AI audio, said Thursday that it has raised a Series C round of $180 million, valuing the company at…
How DeepSeek changed Silicon Valley’s AI landscape
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek provoked the first Silicon Valley freak-out of 2025 after releasing open versions of AI models that compete with the best technology OpenAI, Meta, and Google have…
DeepSeek’s Disruption: What It Means for the AI Industry and Its PR Challenges
DeepSeek‘s sudden rise has reshaped the AI field, where American tech giants like Nvidia, Google, and OpenAI once held clear dominance. Their success questions existing ideas about technological advancement, affects…
Inna Tokarev Sela, CEO and Founder of illumex – Interview Series
Inna Tokarev Sela, the CEO and Founder of Illumex, is transforming how enterprises prepare their structured data for generative AI. Illumex enables organizations to deploy genAI analytics agents by translating…
From Email Overload to Efficiency: A Transformer-Based LLM Solution for SAS Tech Support
SAS’s Ann Kuo walks you through how SAS Tech Support developed an email classifier to clean up spam and misaddressed emails using SAS Viya’s NLP-based text classifier The post From…