Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Previously, the stunning intelligence gains that led to chatbots such ChatGPT and Claude had come from supersizing models and the data and computing power used to train them. o1 required more time to produce answers than other models, but its answers were clearly better than those of non-reasoning models.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But since the unicorn changed its business model to a pure marketplace focusing on senior developers, other platforms such as AltSchool Africa are trying to fill one of the gaps it left: training people to become junior to mid-level engineers. The company’s model is akin to BloomTech’s (formerly Lambda School).

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Companies face several hurdles in creating text-, audio- and image-analyzing AI models for deployment across their apps and services. Cost is an outsize one — training a single model on commercial hardware can cost tens of thousands of dollars, if not more. ” Image Credits: Deci.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Post , a Twitter alternative of sorts that’s rethinking how publishers should engage with social media — and how they should monetize their readership — has opened its doors to the public. “Everyone agrees there’s a problem. So, a one-time transaction, but you’re bombarded,” he says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Called Fixie , the firm, founded by former engineering heads at Apple and Google, aims to connect text-generating models similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT to an enterprise’s data, systems and workflows. With Fixie, companies can connect various apps and services together through pretrained or custom language models.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is “a little like a moonshot,” but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources. “We Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

They have a lot more unknowns: availability of right datasets, model training to meet required accuracy threshold, fairness and robustness of recommendations in production, and many more. Problem definition: “If we build it, will they come?”. Even if the problem is worth solving, AI may not be required. Data availability?: “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

While humanity’s problems have never been greater, our tools have never been better. No-code tools solve some of these problems, but what we need is a whole revolution in our data tools. Even today, we are still locked into a mental model built around paper, titles, and maybe if you are lucky, an Excel spreadsheet.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 23, 2024

They have been operating in silos, independently solving the same problems and rebuilding the same systems over and over. There is now a real opportunity to build a connected, collaborative infrastructure that fuels collective problem-solving and innovation. There has been some real progress in nonprofit tech in recent years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Writer is such a one, and it just announced a new trio of large language models to power its enterprise copy assistant. The company lets customers fine-tune these models on their own content and style guides, from which point forward the AI can write, help write or edit copy so that it meets internal standards.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Now, Homebound , a Santa Rosa, California-based tech-enabled homebuilding startup, is entering the Austin market with the goal of helping ease some of the pain felt in the city by offering an alternative to buying existing homes. Homeowners have been reaching out to us from across the country asking us to come to their market,” Pechet said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Like other companies in the meat alternative space, the startup is founded on the premise that the traditional meat industry is unsustainable. This is seeing demand for meat alternatives soaring, but, argues Steele, these products still aren’t good enough. They don’t taste right and they aren’t healthy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it. Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it. “Growing the existing business and building something new are both pretty hard problems, so that was the big challenge for us.” Detailed, five-quarter view.

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DataRobot

MAY 10, 2022

Addressing the Key Mandates of a Modern Model Risk Management Framework (MRM) When Leveraging Machine Learning . The regulatory guidance presented in these documents laid the foundation for evaluating and managing model risk for financial institutions across the United States.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Users can also leverage Taktile to experiment with off-the-shelf data integrations and monitor the performance of predictive models in their decision flows, Wehmeyer said, performing A/B tests to evaluate those flows. That won’t likely solve the different but related problem of algorithmic transparency.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Replicate , a startup that runs machine learning models in the cloud, today launched out of stealth with $17.8 Enter Replicate, which offers a library of open source models that software developers can run with a few lines of code. The alternative is usually deploying models yourself on Amazon Web Services.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 3, 2012

I filled out a form reporting a problem. I started looking for the Report Problem link or the Groups user-to-user forum to get some attention on this. Free/Freemium is a business model. I’m questioning my choices and considering alternatives. Not a model I trust very much these days. It’s not an excuse.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Zindi is all about using AI to solve real world problems for companies and individuals. The platform is now providing alternatives and stepping up competition against traditional consulting firms operating across Africa, which are often expensive. Zindi currently has a jobs portal to “shorten the path from learning to earning.”

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The Next Web

JULY 13, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. Cash on delivery has proven to be a dud, the ecommerce model itself is broken in many places. You can follow Sangeet on Twitter at @sanguit. Amazon is entering India.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 25, 2023

Posted by Yicheng Fan and Dana Alon, Software Engineers, Google Research Every byte and every operation matters when trying to build a faster model, especially if the model is to run on-device. Using a search space built on backbones taken from MobileNetV2 and MobileNetV3 , we find models with top-1 accuracy on ImageNet up to 4.9%

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

An undercurrent this past year has been the exploration of how large, generalist models, like PaLM , can work alongside other approaches to surface capabilities allowing robots to learn from a breadth of human knowledge and allowing people to engage with robots more naturally.

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DataRobot

JUNE 27, 2022

In our previous two posts, we discussed extensively how modelers are able to both develop and validate machine learning models while following the guidelines outlined by the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) in SR 11-7. Monitoring Model Metrics.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

He and his team looked at how AI was likely to be developed in the future and wanted to create a cost-saving alternative to graphics processing units. Current methods are laborious, expensive and slow, and for example, if a company is running language models that require more memory, it will run into problems, he added.

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fusionSpan

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

They highlighted several key points, such as the pros and cons of using a hub-and-spoke model, exploring alternatives like iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service), and emphasizing that the true core of any tech stack should be a deep understanding of your organization and its members. Watch the Webinar Now! Draw your systems map.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Published on February 7, 2025 7:35 PM GMT TL;DR: If you are thinking of using interpretability to help with strategic deception, then there's likely a problem you need to solve first: how are intentional descriptions (like deception) related to algorithmic ones (like understanding the mechanisms models use)?

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Robust algorithm design is the backbone of systems across Google, particularly for our ML and AI models. We also designed improved sublinear algorithms for different flavors of clustering problems such as geometric linkage clustering , constant-round correlation clustering , and fully dynamic k-clustering. closures, incidents).

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

There are tons of articles, resources, and books about how you should model your investor presentation and you can drive yourself insane trying to follow each format exactly. Some say you need to include a slide about the problem you’re solving, while others say there are no such things as problems, only opportunities.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 8, 2023

While conventional neural networks have a fixed function and computation capacity, i.e., they spend the same number of FLOPs for processing different inputs, a model with adaptive and dynamic computation modulates the computational budget it dedicates to processing each input, depending on the complexity of the input.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Brain imaging studies have shown that in the presence of external stimulation, introverts show more activity in the regions of the brain that process information, make meaning, and problem solve compared to extroverts. Creative theorist Graham Wallas presented one of the first models of the creative process in 1926.

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The Verge

APRIL 7, 2021

An amazing typing experience that’s sometimes far from practical I’m not old enough to have ever encountered an original IBM Model M in an office. But in my second year of university, after hearing about how amazing these old keyboards were to type on, I sought out an old model on eBay. The New Model M is a bulky keyboard.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is a problem particularly faced by financial firms, but it could also be useful in the areas of COVID contact tracing or general business intelligence. Alternatively, companies try to build their own solutions using Elasticsearch. But it remains a big problem to solve. But it remains a big problem to solve.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

So the training data that we use to build models of human intelligence, like ChatGPT, which are not themselves intelligent but simply reflect the human intelligence that trained them, are actually a very small selection of the data that we have, and those data are a small selection of the outputs of human intelligence on the planet.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 26, 2023

Posted by Shekoofeh Azizi, Senior Research Scientist, and Laura Culp, Senior Research Engineer, Google Research Despite recent progress in the field of medical artificial intelligence (AI), most existing models are narrow , single-task systems that require large quantities of labeled data to train.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In the midst of an artificial intelligence boom thats reshaping almost every facet of the business world, companies are competing in an arms race to build the best and brightest models and fully embrace the nascent technology, whether thats as a product or service for customers or as an integralcomponent of their organizations processes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

.” Feel has a direct-to-consumer subscription model, and is claiming a 60x growth in its first year and 21,000 active subscriptions. Hodakel’s contention is that while Feel provides higher-grade supplements to consumers, which cost more to produce, it manages to keep costs down for consumers via direct-to-consumer model.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Apple has announced a new version of its HomePod smart speaker, the $99 HomePod mini — a smaller version of the speaker that shrinks down the original model into a more compact size. And while Apple would eventually go on to cut the price of the original HomePod (it now routinely costs $199 on sale), it’s still pricey.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

Tyler Scriven, Maxwell Bonnie and Paul D’Arrigo co-founded Saltbox in an effort to solve that problem. The trio came up with a unique “co-warehousing” model that provides space for small businesses and e-commerce merchants to operate as well as store and ship goods, all under one roof. Image Credits: Saltbox. Image Credits: Saltbox.

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