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Getting infrastructure right for generative AI

CIO

Every organization should think hard about investing in a large cluster of GPU nodes,” says Rutten, asking, “What is your use case? It was quite cost-effective at first to buy our own hardware, which was a four-GPU cluster,” says Doniyor Ulmasov, head of engineering at Papercup. They are much more efficient and can be more powerful.

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NEX raises $25M, launches Active Arcade to get people moving

TechCrunch

Yet, one in four adults and 81% of adolescents are insufficiently physically active, according to the World Health Organization. It also previously raised a $4 million seed round from Charmides Capital, Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment Ventures and Mandra Capital, Steve Nash, Jeremy Lin and Mark Cuban in 2018.

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Hong Kong accelerator Brinc raises $30M Series B

TechCrunch

I knew the organization primary through its consumer hardware companies — a primary focus when it was founded, back in 2014. In all, Brinc currently sports seven offices, with people operating out of a total of 12 locations. In November, the company is also opening an office in Brazil — its first in Latin America.

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Accelerating generative AI requires the right storage

CIO

In other sports, such as basketball or soccer, there may be hundreds or thousands of players at the topmost levels. Organizations need massive amounts of data to build and train generative AI models. All this data means that organizations adopting generative AI face a potential, last-mile bottleneck, and that is storage.

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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

But despite that fact and in the face of the intense competition, Wasabi has grown its customer base to more than 40,000 organizations and nabbed eye-catchingly large funding tranches — most recently $250 million in a Series D round that closed this morning. Wasabi launched just a few years ago, in 2015.

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Tough tumbler: Lock-picking vs. the pandemic shutdown

The Parallax

The art of lock-picking, many of them will tell you, is hacker philosophy made real, but the longtime hacker sport has faced an uncertain future since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the world’s social gatherings. Tweak them in the right order, and the lock opens.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

With its focus on hardware and software for public elections, VotingWorks is different from Adida’s previous electronic voting system efforts, including Helios , an online voting system Adida said is best used in closed elections like those for university-level student body governments or corporate boards of directors.