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The Goldilocks Scenario Every VC Is Hoping For 

The Goldilocks Scenario Every VC Is Hoping For 

Over the past few years, we’ve witnessed the meteoric top of the venture and startup markets where valuations were through the roof, investors were competing with each other on speed (instead of due diligence), founders were exclusively focused on raising the next round, and startups had an almost unlimited source of capital to pursue growth at all costs. Those days ended with a series of significant blows to the ecosystem including the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, global wars and rising interest rates. Now the industry has settled into a new, healthy normal where valuations have returned to reasonable levels, only…
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Predictive Human Preference: From Model Ranking to Model Routing

Predictive Human Preference: From Model Ranking to Model Routing

A challenge of building AI applications is choosing which model to use. What if we don’t have to? What if we can predict the best model for any prompt? Predictive human preference aims to predict which model users might prefer for a specific query. Table of contents Ranking Models Using Human Preference…. How Preferential Ranking Works…. Correctness of Chatbot Arena Ranking…….. Eval data…….. ResultsPredicting Human Preference For Each Prompt…. Experiment setup…. Experiment results…….. Domain-specific and query-specific leaderboardsConclusion Human preference has emerged to be both the Northstar and a powerful tool for AI model development. Human preference guides post-training techniques including…
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Inside the Pod: A Guide to Launching a Successful One-person Company

Inside the Pod: A Guide to Launching a Successful One-person Company

Thank you to everyone who is watching or listening to my podcast, How Do You Use ChatGPT? If you want to see a collection of all of the prompts and responses in one place, Every contributor Rhea Purohit is breaking them down for you to replicate. Let us know in the comments if you find these guides useful. —Dan ShipperWas this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox.In the first week of April, I came face-to-face with the part of being a freelancer I hate the most: tax season.The idea of wading through invoices, account…
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Local Coworking Spaces Thrive Where WeWork Dared Not Go

Local Coworking Spaces Thrive Where WeWork Dared Not Go

The white colonial revival church with its high steeple adds an idyllic architectural touch to the affluent town of Huntington, a Long Island suburb of New York City. But a sign grabs the eye from the road: “Coworking space,” it says. “Kind of like a WeWork. Was a church, but not anymore.”The former church may have been leveled and replaced with condos, had Michael Hartofilis not bought it and repurposed it as a coworking venue called Main Space that opened earlier this year. What was once a sanctuary with a high ceiling has been split into two floors of coworking…
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How to use Google Slides, Google’s free slideshow presentation maker

How to use Google Slides, Google’s free slideshow presentation maker

Google Slides is a presentation program that's part of Google Workspace, a group of productivity apps that also includes Gmail, Google Sheets, Goole Docs, Google Meet, and more. Workspace has more than 3 billion users worldwide. With Google Slides, users can create, present, and collaborate via online presentations from various devices. You can present during Google Meet calls directly from Slides and embed charts from Google Sheets. You can also add YouTube videos to Slides presentations. Google recently announced plans to add artificial intelligence features like its Gemini AI tool to its Workspace programs, which include Slides. Users will be able to use…
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Generative AI Translation Startup DeepL Locks Up $300M

Generative AI Translation Startup DeepL Locks Up $300M

Investors can’t get enough of different ways to use generative AI. Translation and language startup DeepL became the latest startup using generative AI to raise big, nabbing $300 million at a $2 billion post-money valuation in a round led by Index Ventures. The valuation is about double its previous $1 billion-plus valuation from January 2023. The round included participation from ICONIQ Growth, Teachers’ Venture Growth, IVP, Atomico and WiL (World Innovation Lab). The German startup language AI platform offers writing, editing and translation services for 63 markets and 32 languages for business use cases. The company said it has already…
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What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools

What I learned from looking at 900 most popular open source AI tools

[Hacker News discussion, LinkedIn discussion, Twitter thread] Four years ago, I did an analysis of the open source ML ecosystem. Since then, the landscape has changed, so I revisited the topic. This time, I focused exclusively on the stack around foundation models. The full list of open source AI repos is hosted at llama-police. The list is updated every 6 hours. You can also find most of them on my cool-llm-repos list on GitHub. Table of contentsData…. How to add missing reposThe New AI Stack…. AI stack over time…….. Applications…….. AI engineering…….. Model development…….. InfrastructureOpen source AI developers…. One-person billion-dollar…
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GPT-5 Is Coming: Reading Between the Lines at Microsoft Build

GPT-5 Is Coming: Reading Between the Lines at Microsoft Build

Sponsored By: HubSpot Use AI as your personal assistant. Ready to embrace a new era of task delegation? HubSpot’s highly anticipated AI Task Delegation Playbook is your key to supercharging your productivity and saving precious time. Learn how to integrate AI technology into your processes, allowing you to optimize resource allocation and maximize output with precision and ease. Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox.I’m a child of divorce, so I’m pretty good at reading between the lines. Divorced parents always say things about each other to you without actually saying them. Learning to interpret…
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