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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

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Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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Daily Crunch: ‘Network issue’ causes cloud outage that takes down multiple Microsoft services for 4+ hours

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Training in VR : Paul reports that Gemba, a corporate VR training platform used by Coca-Cola and Pfizer, raises $18 million. Image Credits: Jenny Dettrick (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Americans spent nearly $20 billion on pizza deliveries in 2021. When it comes to large language models, should you build or buy?

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Extra Crunch roundup: NS1 EC-1, Pakistan’s tech ecosystem, SPACs bonanza

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Part 2: Product development and roadmap : experimentation, open-source efforts and expanding beyond DNS. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). “The venture capital market is racing ahead, foot on the gas, middle finger out the window, hair on fire.” The NS1 EC-1.

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Daily Crunch: Stealth startup Figure releases first photos of its all-purpose humanoid robot

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million to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more, Kyle reports. ” How to turn an open source project into a profitable business Three more from the TC+ team: IPOcart : Instacart’s Q4 results impressed. All the shingle ladies : Brian reports that Renovate is building robots to install roof shingles.

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Daily Crunch: Netflix’s new sharing restrictions force subscribers to select a primary viewing location

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Acquisition Within reach : Amanda writes that Meta wins a ruling against the FTC to move forward with purchase of VR startup Within. This will send you into orbit : Paul provides a lengthy look at which open source startups rocketed in 2022. Hvadafornoe? Teach yourself growth marketing: Which metrics really matter?

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Radar Trends to Watch: June 2023

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By the time you read this, Apple may have announced their ultra-expensive, ultra-stylish AR headset; that may be enough to break the Metaverse out of its AR/VR winter. Mosaic has released MPT-7B, an open-source family of large language models that allows commercial use. But that’s hardly news. Or maybe not.

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Radar Trends to Watch: July 2023

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They have not released an open source version. OpenLLM provides support for running a number of open source large language models in production. This bottleneck is delaying features like custom fine-tuning the model, expanding the context window, and multimodality (i.e., Some things have to happen.