Daily Edition · Page 2THE DAILY INDEXTechnology, AI, software, security, crypto and businessWednesday, August 30, 2023MISCELLANEOUSTLDRTLDRTHE CONTRARIAN STRATEGY OF OPENAIOpenAI did many things differently than what Sam Altman would have advised for YC startups. It launched a solution in search of a problem with a capital-intensive business behind a login wall without any social, sharing, or other viral features. It took the company 4.5 years to launch its first commercial product. OpenAI fundraises through complicated financial structures. Altman is considering deleting his blog as he feels bad about the advice that he gave back when he was running YC.matt-rickard.com · 3 minTLDREFFICIENCYSierra Forest will have 240% better performance per watt than Intel's current generation data center chips.reuters.com · 2 minTLDR30X CHEAPERLlama-2-70b is almost as strong at factuality as GPT-4 and considerably better than gpt-3.5-turbo.anyscale.com · 17 minTLDRGOOGLE MADE A WATERMARK FOR AI IMAGES THAT YOU CAN’T EDIT OUTSynthID generates watermarks that are imperceptible to the human eye and robust to various transformations but easily caught by a dedicated AI detection tool.theverge.com · 7 minTLDRMEASURING DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY? A RESPONSE TO MCKINSEYThis two-part article takes a look at whether it's possible to measure developer productivity and how attempting to measure developer productivity may be damaging to the engineering culture at companies.newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · 21 min
TLDRTHE CONTRARIAN STRATEGY OF OPENAIOpenAI did many things differently than what Sam Altman would have advised for YC startups. It launched a solution in search of a problem with a capital-intensive business behind a login wall without any social, sharing, or other viral features. It took the company 4.5 years to launch its first commercial product. OpenAI fundraises through complicated financial structures. Altman is considering deleting his blog as he feels bad about the advice that he gave back when he was running YC.matt-rickard.com · 3 min
TLDREFFICIENCYSierra Forest will have 240% better performance per watt than Intel's current generation data center chips.reuters.com · 2 min
TLDR30X CHEAPERLlama-2-70b is almost as strong at factuality as GPT-4 and considerably better than gpt-3.5-turbo.anyscale.com · 17 min
TLDRGOOGLE MADE A WATERMARK FOR AI IMAGES THAT YOU CAN’T EDIT OUTSynthID generates watermarks that are imperceptible to the human eye and robust to various transformations but easily caught by a dedicated AI detection tool.theverge.com · 7 min
TLDRMEASURING DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY? A RESPONSE TO MCKINSEYThis two-part article takes a look at whether it's possible to measure developer productivity and how attempting to measure developer productivity may be damaging to the engineering culture at companies.newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · 21 min