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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). One of the first applications for CUDA was in oil and gas exploration, processing the mountains of data from geological surveys.

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LiveKit co-founder believes the metaverse needs open infrastructure

TechCrunch

D’Sa and his team, which includes co-founder David Zhao, developed a free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling real-time audio and video experiences, aka WebRTC, in applications. Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups. That’s how LiveKit was born.

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CoreWeave, a GPU-focused cloud compute provider, lands $221M investment

TechCrunch

. “Our clients include generative AI companies, like Tarteel AI and Anlatan, the creators of NovelAI, and we’ve supported a range of open source AI and machine learning projects like EleutherAI and Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion,” Intrator told TechCrunch in an email interview. There’s some reason for optimism.

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Enso emerges from stealth to help enterprises make sense of their data

TechCrunch

A 2021 Databricks and MIT survey found that only 13% of organizations are delivering on their data strategy. Together, Danilo and Brodacka created Enso’s first product: the eponymous open source project Enso. According to a 2018 Gartner report, 87% of organizations have low business intelligence and analytics maturity.

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Radar trends to watch: August 2020

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

CML is an open source project developing tools for continuous integration and continuous deployment that are appropriate for machine learning. Spacial perception for robotics : Identifying objects is easy, but building a model of a 3D scene is difficult, and an essential problem for general-purpose robotics. Programming.

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Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow

TechCrunch

While Amsterdam garners the lion’s share of attention in the Netherlands tech ecosystem, the not-so-far-away region around Utrecht has its fair share of tech startups and investors, as is evidenced by our latest survey of locals, below. We surveyed: Jorg Kop , investment manager, ROM Utrecht Region. Utrecht is a bit lagging.”

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Is Java Still Popular with Software Developers?

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Java became open source in 2006, and Oracle took over stewardship when it acquired Sun in 2010. There are also advanced tree and 3D graphical models that developers find helpful. The wide range of open-source frameworks makes Java a popular tool for developing games like Minecraft and Mission Impossible II among many others.