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Foxglove raises $15M to build dev infrastructure for robots

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While at Cruise, Macneil says that he saw firsthand the lack of off-the-shelf tooling for robotics and autonomous vehicle development; Cruise had to hire entire teams to build tooling in-house, including apps for visualization, data management, AI and machine learning, simulation and more. Image Credits: Foxglove.

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Bandit ML helps e-commerce businesses present the most effective offer to each shopper

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Conti acknowledged that there’s other discount-optimizing software out there, but he suggested none of them offers what Bandit ML does: “off the shelf tools that use machine learning the way giants like Uber, Amazon and Walmart do.” It also raised a $1.32 It also raised a $1.32 Image Credits: Bandit ML.

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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models

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-based companies, 44% said that they’ve not hired enough, were too siloed off to be effective and haven’t been given clear roles. “The major challenges we see today in the industry are that machine learning projects tend to have elongated time-to-value and very low access across an organization.

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Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

There’s a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Instead of the negative let’s go through the ways I think a machine learning API can actually be useful (ok full disclosure: I don’t think it’s very many). Focusing on a particular niche makes it easier to build something that works off the shelf.

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Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

There’s a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Instead of the negative let’s go through the ways I think a machine learning API can actually be useful (ok full disclosure: I don’t think it’s very many). Focusing on a particular niche makes it easier to build something that works off the shelf.

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FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market

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Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. The global FPGA market size could reach $14 billion by 2028, according to one estimate, up from $6 billion in 2021. ” Rapid Silicon is developing two products at present: Raptor and Gemini. .

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

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The proceeds bring the company’s total raised to $17 million, which CEO Sankalp Arora says is being put toward expanding Gather’s deployment capacity and go-to-market plans as well as hiring new machine learning engineers. So does Pensa Systems, Vimaan, Intelligent Flying Machines , Vtrus and Verity.