March 26, 2024

Hardware

Report: SK Hynix Mulls Building $4 Billion Advanced Packaging Facility in Indiana

SK hynix is considering whether to build an advanced packaging facility in Indiana, reports the Wall Street Journal. If the company proceeds with the plan, it intends to invest $4 billion in it and construct one of the world’s largest advanced packaging facilities. But to accomplish the project, SK hynix expects it will need help from the U.S. government. Acknowledging the report but stopping short of confirming the company’s plans, a company spokeswoman told the

Anton Shilov March 26, 2024

Leverage OpenAI Tool calling: Building a reliable AI Agent from Scratch

Created with DALL·E Step-by-Step Workflow for developing and refining an AI Agent while dealing with errors Lukasz Kowejsza · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 16 min read · 4 hours ago — When we think about the future of AI, we envision intuitive everyday helpers seamlessly integrating into our workflows and taking on complex, routinely tasks. We all have found touchpoints that relieve us from the tedium of mental routine work. Yet, the

Lukasz Kowejsza March 26, 2024

Fine-tune an Instruct model over raw text data

Fine-tune a modern chatbot with minimal conversational data for under $10 Jon Flynn · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 12 min read · 4 hours ago — Image by author Purpose Getting a modern chatbot to uphold it’s capabilities on your own data remains a complex task. Context window sizes are increasing rapidly with leading products like Gemini 1.5 Pro’s and Claude 3’s big leap to a 1 million token capacity. However, a

Jon Flynn March 26, 2024

Hardware

Intel Announces Expansion to AI PC Dev Program, Aims to Reach More Software & Hardware Devs

Today, Intel announced that it is looking to progress its AI PC Acceleration program further by offering various new toolkits and devkits designed for software and hardware AI developers under a new AI PC Developer Program sub-initiative. Originally launched on October 23, the AI PC Acceleration program was created to connect hardware vendors with software developers, using Intel’s vast resources and experience to develop a broader ecosystem as the world pivots to one driven by

Gavin Bonshor March 26, 2024

Gunzilla Games raises $30M to support Off the Grid development

Gunzilla Games has raised an additional $30 million in funding to launch its upcoming third-person shooter Off the Grid.Read More

Rachel Kaser March 26, 2024

Mamba Architecture: What Is It and Can It Beat Transformers? | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read Mamba, a new architecture leveraging State-Space Models (SSMs), particularly Structured State Space (S4) models, offers a breakthrough in processing long sequences efficiently, outperforming traditional Transformer-based models with linear complexity scaling. This advancement enables handling tasks like genomic analysis and long-form content generation without memory or compute bottlenecks. Recent papers introduce extensions like EfficientVMamba for resource-constrained deployment, Cobra for multi-modal reasoning, and SiMBA for stability in scaling, showcasing Mamba’s architectural flexibility and

Ksenia Se March 26, 2024

Discipulus Ventures mentors young founders to revive a Norman Rockwell vision of America | TechCrunch

Scores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. Only a fraction seek out founders who are explicitly aligned with some set of values — let alone classically conservative values like family, patriotism and faith. Discipulus Ventures, which kicked off its first 10-person cohort yesterday, is a singular exception. The mentorship program for young founders is interested in bringing together a

Aria Alamalhodaei March 26, 2024

10 Rookie Product Design Mistakes (And How to Sidestep Them) | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read The early stages of product design are a minefield of potential missteps that can sink a great idea before it even has a chance. Let’s take a look at 10 common mistakes and how savvy entrepreneurs and budding designers can avoid them. Embrace empathy for your user, iterate relentlessly based on feedback, and focus on delivering value.

Pallavi March 26, 2024

Taking the Azure Open AI Challenge – Day 1 | HackerNoon

Sukhpinder Singh March 26, 2024

Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency

As the planet warms due to human-caused climate change, damage from wildfires has increased with it. The amount of forest area burned by wildfires increased 320% from 1996 to 2021, according to the National Integrated Drought Information System. While building tech to slow the progression and impacts of climate change would be ideal, it’s a massive, costly problem that impacts every industry and needs adaptive answers in the more near term. Vibrant Planet looks to

Rebecca Szkutak March 26, 2024