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Deep Render lands $9M for its AI-powered video compression tech

TechCrunch

Deep Render , a startup developing AI-powered tech to compress videos on the web, today announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A funding round led by IP Group and Pentech Ventures. Deep Render isn’t the only venture applying AI to the problem of video compression, nor is its AI a silver bullet necessarily.

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

TechCrunch

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. Screenshot of the Ameelio video call scheduling interface. The result is poor service at maximum price.

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The AI continuum

CIO

Great for: Extracting meaning from unstructured data like network traffic, video & speech. Retrain and fine-tune an existing model Retraining proprietary or open-source models on specific datasets creates smaller, more refined models that can produce accurate results with lower-cost cloud instances or local hardware.

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Lights, Camera, Action: Google Slides’ New Presentation Recording Feature

Xebia

Some of us try to write the instructions down, others jump into a video call, and more tech savvy people may start a screen recording. Now, it’s time to get rid of other video recording tools or less innovative ways of sharing information. Have you ever tried to explain something through a digital channel?

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO

Nvidia’s transformation from an accelerator of video games to an enabler of artificial intelligence (AI) and the industrial metaverse didn’t happen overnight—but the leap in its stock market value to over a trillion dollars did. Some of those models are truly gargantuan: OpenAI’s GPT-4 is said to have over 1 trillion parameters.

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What’s so hard about training and deploying LLMs?

John Snow Labs

What happens when you try to train bigger models, use more hardware, wrangle more data? In this talk, Davis Blalock will walk through the hurdles of memory limitations, hardware failures, compute management, experimentation, evaluation, and how they all contribute to the escalating time and cost of training LLMs.

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When grandma falls, SafelyYou is there to catch her (on video)

TechCrunch

So instead of trying to find a way to train more nursing staff, SafelyYou is solving part of the problem with a software solution: Fall detection for patients in care and nursing homes. When a fall is detected, the video is recorded, and the care home team can be alerted. George Netscher, CEO and co-founder of SafelyYou.

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