TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

Strong Compute , a Sydney, Australia-based startup that helps developers remove the bottlenecks in their machine learning training pipelines, today announced that it has raised a $7.8 ” Strong Compute wants to speed up your ML model training. ” Strong Compute wants to speed up your ML model training. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Language models like GPT-4 and Claude are powerful and useful, but the data on which they are trained is a closely guarded secret. Although companies like OpenAI and Meta publish some of the vital statistics of the datasets they use to build their language models, a lot of that information is treated as proprietary.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Amazon’s launching a privacy-preserving service that lets AWS customers deploy “lookalike” AI models trained for one-off company-company collaborations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

If you work at a company above a certain size, you’ll understand just how little patience we all feel for internal phishing awareness, even despite the fact that phishing remains one of the leading causes of data breaches. million in seed funding to expand its cybersecurity awareness and training offering.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

It’s only as good as the models and data used to train it, so there is a need for sourcing and ingesting ever-larger data troves. But annotating and manipulating that training data takes a lot of time and money, slowing down the work or overall effectiveness, and maybe both. V7 even lays out how the two services compare.)

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. “[W]e believe that companies, nonprofits and government working together can be a powerful force for good.

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CIO

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A recent survey of senior IT professionals from Foundry found that 57% of IT organizations have identified several areas for gen AI use cases, 25% have started pilot programs, and 41% are engaged in training and upskilling employees on gen AI.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

At its annual GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia announced a set of cloud services designed to help businesses build and run generative AI models trained on custom data and created for “domain-specific tasks,” like writing ad copy.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

“Modest” because the scale of what the company has achieved is pretty impressive. The company says it currently runs some 450 “hacking labs” across more than 300 machines. HTB is not the first nor only company to build cyber training around a gamified environment. It also has a careers service.)

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CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Public-private partnerships necessary to build technologies safely and focus on the greatest of society’s challenges require months, if not years, to take shape, in part because companies do not decide to collaborate easily or quickly. Do company leaders know the best ethical practices in technology ?

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The legal spats between artists and the companies training AI on their artwork show no sign of abating. Generative AI models “learn” to create art, code and more by “training” on sample images and text, usually scraped indiscriminately from the web. By late April, that figure had eclipsed 1 billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

This morning Arist , a startup that sells software allowing other organizations to offer SMS-based training to staff, announced that it has extended its seed round to $3.9 ” Profitable is just not a word TechCrunch hears often when it comes to early-stage, high-growth companies. million after adding $2 million to its prior raise.

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CIO

JULY 18, 2023

How Nvidia got here and where it’s going next sheds light on how the company has achieved that valuation, a story that owes a lot to the rising importance of specialty chips in business—and accelerating interest in the promise of generative AI.

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CIO

MARCH 7, 2024

Here are the key recommendations I provided: AI training implementation: Introduce AI training aligned with company policies and processes to empower employees with the necessary skills and awareness. I’ve heard of companies creating a separate set of policies for every transformative technology.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

But some firms have escaped unscathed, like cybersecurity training platform Cybrary , which today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series C funding round. Cybersecurity professionals at every stage of their careers need an affordable and accessible training platform to arm them with the skills and confidence to respond to threats.”

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The Hustle

JANUARY 18, 2024

Today, it seems the latest victim of the tech takeover might be the model train hobby industry, which is nearing the end of the line. Eight years later, the downturn continues as model train enthusiasts age, living spaces shrink, and prices rise, per The Guardian. and NASCAR to bring trains back as an in-demand gift.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Julián Melo and Marta Forero founded UBITS in Bogota, Colombia, in 2018 after the pair came up with the idea of “creating the Netflix for corporate training for LatAm.” UBITS is also working on further personalizing its offering so that each employee has his/her own training path. “We

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Online professional training isn’t new; it’s not uncommon to see medium-sized startups allocate several thousand dollars to individual employees each year to further their “personal development.” The company is exhibiting as one of the Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2022.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

This past decade, Nigeria has seen several companies cater to the development and growth of software engineers and tech talent in general. ” Two years on, the entrepreneur who is a household name has significantly scaled the company to new heights. .” No upfront payment is expected , says the company. and Germany.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2022

million from Foundry and Venrock , then crowdfunding its personal robot , the company hit a series of challenges. Today, Swedish social robotics company Furhat Robotics is offering the beleaguered startup a gentle landing in what the Swedish company says is an all-cash deal. “This company spun out of Spiro.

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When speaking with IT leaders from the world’s largest companies about their greatest business challenges, there’s one thing I hear often. SAP Analytics Cloud helped them get access to a profit and loss account for each of their 200 individual locations as well as a comprehensive, consolidated company view. It’s easy to see why.

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AWS Machine Learning - AI

MARCH 28, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are generally trained on large publicly available datasets that are domain agnostic. For example, Meta’s Llama models are trained on datasets such as CommonCrawl , C4 , Wikipedia, and ArXiv. The resulting LLM outperforms LLMs trained on non-domain-specific datasets when tested on finance-specific tasks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Wall-mounted fitness startup Tonal this morning announced that it’s bringing live courses to it portfolio of strength training workouts. Y]our coach works out with you — just like in a live class,” the company wrote. Strength-training startup Tonal crosses unicorn status after raising $250M. billion, back in March.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

How do the companies they work for make people feel welcome and included, rather than isolated? Today Valence , a startup dedicated to empowering Black professionals, announced a new program called BONDS, which is designed to help companies train, retain and promote Black employees.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

The company’s at-home strength-training system sports resistance-based weights up to ~440 pounds. Vitruvian touts “software-driven weight training,” which can dynamically adjust resistance to the user. The company also pushes back a bit on the gym question. Founded in late 2018, the company ended 2020 with a $3.4

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CIO

JANUARY 23, 2023

The tech industry has long been known for its lack of diversity and, as a result, there’s been a big push for companies to take DEI strategies seriously. In fact, diverse companies have been shown to have a 2.5 In fact, diverse companies have been shown to have a 2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Ultimately, we want to offer training programs for individuals from all walks of life.” ” Emerge Career’s tech-forward job training lets incarcerated folks hit the road on release. It’s hoped the new programs will broaden the appeal and let the company support more students and locations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

V7 Labs , the makers of a computer vision platform that helps AI teams “automate” and future-proof their training data workflows as advances in AI continue, has picked up $3 million in funding. To that end, V7 Labs’ existing 100 or so customers include Tractable, GE Healthcare and Merck.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The company is today announcing the close of a $16 million Series A funding round led by F-Prime Capital, with participation from Cowboy Ventures, NextGen Venture partners, Slack Fund, Gaingels, and SemperVirens. Specifically, Hone focuses on leadership training within organizations with live, intimate online classes led by a coach.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

There is a shift in the air, and it feels like companies need to be thinking about how to put large language models to work, but as with any new advanced technology, it’s often easier said than done, especially for less-technical organizations. The company has 14 employees with a few open roles.

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Rapid BI

MAY 31, 2023

Like any SMART goal it is a written plan that states the marketing goals and the objectives to be achieved over a specified period of tim The post Marketing plan for a training company appeared first on RapidBI.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Synthetaic is a startup working to create data — specifically images — that can be used to train artificial intelligence. The startup also validates its results after an AI has been trained on Synthetaic’s synthesized images, by testing that AI on real data. The startup announced today that it has raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Virtual Reality (VR) has struggled to transition too far beyond gaming circles and specific industry use-cases such as medical training , but with the burgeoning metaverse movement championed by tech heavyweights such as Meta , there has been a renewed hope (and hype) around the promise that virtual worlds bring.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Meanwhile, big global brands and companies who need product managers to grow their businesses can’t sit around waiting for people to graduate. Product School provides certificates for individuals as well as team training, and says it has experienced an upwelling of business since COVID switched so many companies into digital ones.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2024

There are three immediate challenges for companies that want to train fine-tuned AI models: 1) they require extensive, high-quality data — a scarce resource for many enterprises, 2) third-party AI models can include problematic biases, and 3) training fine-tuned models with users’ personal data may result in privacy violations.

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InfoWorld

JANUARY 18, 2024

As creators and IP holders argue with generative AI companies over the correct protocol to use data for training generative AI systems, a new non-profit firm, Fairly Trained, is offering certifications to companies who train their generative AI models on “consented” data. “We

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Generative AI companies continue to raise huge amounts of capital to fuel their commercial — and, in some cases, open source — ambitions. See Together, a startup creating open source generative AI and AI model development infrastructure, which today announced that it closed a $102.5

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