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Foxglove raises $15M to build dev infrastructure for robots

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. Launched in 2021, the goal with Rapid Silicon is to promote, adopt and implement open source tech to address the low- to mid-range FPGA market, according to CEO and co-founder Naveed Sherwani.

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Know before you go: 6 lessons for enterprise GenAI adoption

CIO

Many organizations know that commercially available, “off-the-shelf” generative AI models don’t work well in enterprise settings because of significant data access and security risks. We’re using our own databases, testing against our own needs, and building around specific problem sets.

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Why Reinvent the Wheel? The Challenges of DIY Open Source Analytics Platforms

Cloudera

In their effort to reduce their technology spend, some organizations that leverage open source projects for advanced analytics often consider either building and maintaining their own runtime with the required data processing engines or retaining older, now obsolete, versions of legacy Cloudera runtimes (CDH or HDP).

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

TechCrunch

-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.