The Daily Index — Thursday, March 21, 2024 · TLDR Index

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DOCUSIGN'S 7,000 EMPLOYEES AND THE IRON LAW OF B2B SAAS SALES

Docusign's over 7,000 employees are mostly in sales. Around 24% of its workforce is in engineering, product development, and customer operations. The company's sales/engineering split isn't that unusual. Even if a company is well positioned in a space, its future and profits are always uncertain - putting resources into new products or features just in case makes sense as the cost of being overtaken is very high.

nintil.com · 8 min

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BRINGING AI TO THE MASSES WITH ADAM D'ANGELO OF QUORA

In this interview, CEO of Quora Adam D'Angelo talks about how building infrastructure for creators can democratize AI. The interview covers how social networks are a compliment to AI, multi-model and multi-modal AI, bringing AI to the masses, AI infrastructure for creators, and much more. The video of the interview is available.

a16z.com · 28 min

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NVIDIA ANNOUNCES “MOONSHOT” TO CREATE EMBODIED HUMAN-LEVEL AI IN ROBOT FORM

Nvidia's Project GR00T aims to create a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots to enable robots to learn skills and solve various tasks on the fly.

arstechnica.com · 5 min

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APPLE FACING IMMINENT U.S. ANTITRUST LAWSUIT

The US Justice Department is preparing to sue Apple for violating antitrust law.

macrumors.com · 2 min

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SO YOU THINK YOU WANT TO WRITE A DETERMINISTIC HYPERVISOR?

Determinism, which is when machines always pass through the same sequence of states to produce the same output when given a particular input, produces consistent and knowable results.

antithesis.com · 16 min

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STABILITY AI IS FALLING APART

Several key developers at Stability AI, creators of the popular text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion, have resigned.

futurism.com · 3 min

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ELON MUSK'S SPACEX WANTS ITS STARSHIP BACK IN THE AIR FASTER THAN EVER

SpaceX aims to launch the next Starship as soon as early May.

qz.com · 2 min