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Latent AI, which says it can compress common AI models by 10x, lands some key backing

TechCrunch

The company says that its software tools allow AI models to run anywhere, irrespective of hardware constraints, and that includes on the inexpensive chips that are typically found in edge devices. Indeed, though in an interview earlier today, cofounder and CEO Jags Kandasamy declined to delve into specifics, he suggested that the U.S.

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3 Conferences Organized by DevNetwork in August

Apiumhub

Jameson – Engineer manager at Monte Carlo Data Jiri Kobelka – CEO and founder at Tatum …and many more Developer Week Cloud X will have different stages that include live keynote talks, technical workshops, multi-speaker talks, panel talks, and interactive audience Q&A. Interested in attending?

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Modular secures $100M to build tools to optimize and create AI models

TechCrunch

Bringing Modular’s total raised to $130 million, the proceeds will be put toward product expansion, hardware support and the expansion of Modular’s programming language, Mojo, CEO Chris Lattner says. Deci , backed by Intel, is among the startups offering tech to make trained AI models more efficient — and performant.

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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. Mac-optimized TensorFlow flexes new M1 and GPU muscles.

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Top 11 Speakers to look forward to at Talent42, 2019

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Technical Recruiter – Facebook. Alison MacKay is a Technical Recruiter and supports the development and growth of the Data Center Strategy team for the social media giant Facebook. Her love for recruiting top technical talent drives her to be one step ahead of others in creating an engaging and joyful candidate experience. .

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Top 11 Speakers to look forward to at Talent42, 2019

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Technical Recruiter – Facebook. Alison MacKay is a Technical Recruiter and supports the development and growth of the Data Center Strategy team for the social media giant Facebook. Her love for recruiting top technical talent drives her to be one step ahead of others in creating an engaging and joyful candidate experience. .

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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.