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WaveOne aims to make video AI-native and turn streaming upside down

TechCrunch

The other major change was beginning to rely on hardware acceleration of said codecs — your computer or GPU might have an actual chip in it with the codec baked in, ready to perform decompression tasks with far greater speed than an ordinary general-purpose CPU in a phone. Just one problem: when you get a new codec, you need new hardware.

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Distributed systems: A quick and simple definition

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While those simple systems can technically be considered distributed, when engineers refer to distributed systems they’re typically talking about massively complex systems made up of many moving parts communicating with one another, with all of it appearing to an end-user as a single product, says Nora Jones, a senior software engineer at Netflix.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

TechCrunch

Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. “As companies develop new hardware, new models, or expand their geographic and customer base, new training data is required to ensure models perform adequately,” Behzadi told TechCrunch via email.

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