May 3, 2024

ICONIQ Growth raises $5.75B seventh flagship fund | TechCrunch

ICONIQ Growth has raised $5.21 billion across two funds associated with the seventh growth fund family, according to SEC filings. However, the firm’s actual fundraise was $5.75 billion, according to a source familiar with the firm.  The late-stage investment unit is a part of ICONIQ Capital, which launched in 2011 as a private office managing capital of some of the most prominent and wealthiest people in tech, including Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey, has met

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Hardware

Samsung Tapes Out Its First 3nm Smartphone SoC, Gets A Boost From Synopsys AI-Enabled Tools

This week Samsung Electronics and Synopsys announced that Samsung has taped out its first mobile system-on-chip on Samsung Foundry’s 3nm gate-all-around (GAA) process technology. The announcement, coming from electronic design automation Synopsys, further notes that Samsung used the Synopsys.ai EDA suite to place-n-route the layout and verify design of the SoC, which in turn enabled higher performance. Samsung’s unnamed high-performance mobile SoC relies on ‘flagship’ general-purpose CPU and GPU architectures as well as various IP

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AI

Deep Dive into LlaMA 3 by Hand ✍️

Explore the nuances of the transformer architecture behind Llama 3 and its prospects for the GenAI ecosystem Srijanie Dey, PhD · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 11 min read · 6 hours ago — Image by author (The shining LlaMA 3 rendition by my 4-year old.) “In the rugged mountain of the Andes, lived three very beautiful creatures — Rio, Rocky and Sierra. With their lustrous coat and sparkling eyes, they stood out

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Cybersecurity Is a Top Investor Concern | HackerNoon

Too Long; Didn’t Read In the changing institutional investment landscape, top concerns include the shifting world order, demographic forces, and cybersecurity. Cybersecurity makes the list for many reasons, including emerging regulations, a lack of risk specificity, increasing amounts of breaches, and activist cyberattacks. Companies should demonstrate cybersecurity preparedness to win over potential investors. Company Mentioned

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AI

On handling precalculated hierarchical data in Power BI

While hierarchies are a familiar concept with data, some sources deliver their data in an unusual format. Usually, we get our values at the lowest level. But what happens when we get pre-aggregated values? Here, I will dive into this topic. Salvatore Cagliari · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 8 min read · 7 hours ago — Photo by ThisisEngineering on Unsplash

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