巨大なニューラルネットワークと膨大なデータに基づいて人工知能（AI）モデルを構築し、それを「基盤」とみなす研究が波紋を呼んでいる。このスタンフォード大学の研究者らによる取り組みには批判の声が相次いでおり、研究コミュニティを二分する議論にもつながっている。
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Chronosphere raises $200M at a $1B valuation for cloud-native monitoring, adds granular, distributed tracing to its dashboard
Data observability — necessary to keep tabs on infrastructure performing as it should; to see if apps are returning errors; and to ensure that critical business data is getting to where it needs to go — is becoming an evermore complicated task as organizations’ cloud-native data demands and data usage grow. Today a startup that’s […]
Streamlit reaches 1.0 milestone for open source data app building tool
For the past couple of years, Streamlit, a startup founded by machine learning veterans, has been working on an open source project to help data scientists build web apps to explore the data in machine learning models. Today the company announced the project has reached version 1.0. “Two years ago we came out [with the […]
Rendered.ai raises $6M on the promise of ending data scarcity
The availability of data can paralyze a company and its effort to bring software-centric products and services to market. To solve this issue, two-year-old data startup Rendered.ai is generating synthetic data for the satellite, medical, robotics and automotive industries. At its most broad, synthetic data is manufactured rather than gathered from the real world. “When […]
Eight Roads launches its fourth fund: $450M aimed at European/Israeli scale-ups
European VC Eight Roads is launching its fourth fund of $450 million for European and Israeli tech companies , aiming for another 15-20 across a broad range of consumer, software-as-a-service, fintech and healthtech areas. Cheque sizes wil range from around $5 million to $50 million per company, and as such, it tends to play more […]
プログラミングの自動化を支援するAIツールには、「人間のバグも学ぶ」という欠点が潜んでいる
プログラミングをサポートしてくれる人工知能（A)）ツールが増えている。こうしたツールはコーディング作業の効率を高めてくれる一方で、AIならではのミスによってセキュリティの問題を引き起こす可能性もはらんでいる。
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Design’s dirty secrets and how to address experience bias
If the solution to experience bias is variation in front-end design based on the needs of the individual, one way we can radically accelerate that is to understand where automation can be applied.
Last day for early-bird savings on TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
All good things must come to an end, and this proverb totally applies to our early-bird price on passes to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021. Today’s the final day you can save $100 on the price of admission, folks. Join the global SaaS community to connect, inspire, network and learn how to build a stronger startup […]
The death of identity: Knowing your customer in the age of data privacy
Prioritizing individual profiles is far from the most effective way to understand and address customers’ intentions, needs and struggles. Brands don’t need to know who; they need to know what and why.
Google adds news ways to shop, like turning a website’s photos into shoppable products
Google today introduced new ways to shop through its platform, including both online and via its Google Search mobile app. In an update coming soon to the Google Search app for iPhone, the company will begin to leverage a new machine learning model using on-device processing to recognize the products found in images on a […]