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Peter Kim Frank Subscriber for AI Pulse

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Weekly AI News and Discussion Thread

Hey everyone, the past few months have been pretty electric in terms of advancements in AI and actual/imagined changes to our workflow and industry.

This is a regular open thread where everyone is encouraged to share...

  • Notable news in the field of AI
  • Personal experiences and insights
  • Concerns and fears
  • Success stories and demos
  • And any other related discussions you'd like to bring to the table

This thread will go out every week.

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Nick Taylor

I've been really enjoying @swyx's latest podcast and newsletter, Latent Space. I still have a lot to learn, but this podcast has been super helpful.

Latent Space | swyx | Substack

Tens of thousands of subscribers. The AI Engineer newsletter + Top 10 US Tech podcast. Exploring AI UX, Agents, Devtools, Infra, Open Source Models, and more. See https://latent.space/about for highlights from Andrej Karpathy, George Hotz, Simon Willison, Emad Mostaque, and more! Click to read Latent Space, a Substack publication.

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There was a really interesting one recently about a company called Mosaic, where they're focusing on training models and getting those times down to drive down the cost of training models, among other things.

They helped @helloreplit recently train their models.

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swyx

thank you Nick!

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Peter Kim Frank

DigitalOcean acquired PaperSpace to expand their foray into AI-related services:

DigitalOcean Acquires Paperspace to Expand AI Offerings

NEW YORK, July 06, 2023--DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:DOCN), the cloud for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and startups, has acquired Paperspace, a leading provider of cloud infrastructure as a service for highly scalable applications leveraging graphics processing units (GPUs). The acquisition and integration of Paperspace’s advanced technology into the DigitalOcean platform will extend DigitalOcean’s offerings, enabling customers to more easily test, develop and deploy artificial

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Ben Halpern

AI data analysis from large data store companies is getting attention this week

Databricks Sees and Raises Snowflake, with Gen AI, LLMOps, More - The New Stack

We review Databricks' announcements at Data and AI Summit, and how they counter yesterday's Snowflake Summit reveals.

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