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LLM tooling just keeps getting better. Haystack [4] lets you build scalable, extensible, and custom AI systems that are meant for production. ✅ Integrates with all major model providers (Mistral, OpenAI, Google, Cohere, Amazon Bedrock and more) as well as vector databases.
OpenAI is expected to release a major AI model, possibly GPT-5, sometime in mid-2024, likely during the summer. The new model will likely be a multimodel large language model with similar capabilities to GPT-4, but better. OpenAI is still reportedly training the model, after which it will go through internal safety testing to identify any issues before public release. Other issues, besides those that may come up from testing, may delay the launch.
Neuralink has shared a video of its brain-computer interface in action inside a human patient. The patient, a 29-year-old man named Nolan Arbaugh who is paralyzed from the neck down, is able to control a cursor on a screen using Neuralink's device. He is able to play games online for about eight hours before the implant needs to recharge. Arbaugh reports that his experience with the implant has so far been positive, despite some initial issues. The video is available in the article.
Aging wreaks havoc across the body, causing cells to struggle to perform functions they could previously do with ease. The field of aging has been debating how it works for decades. A new explanation for the phenomenon of aging called the 'information theory' postulates that aging is mainly driven by the loss of epigenetic information and that cells can be reprogrammed into behaving like their younger selves by reverting them to their pluripotent states. While the theory offers a path to reversing aging, there are still many challenges to overcome before the technology can be used - errors made while reprogramming cells can result in cancer and other major complications.
Scientists from the University of Amsterdam claim they have successfully eliminated HIV from infected cells using CRISPR gene-editing technology. The work remains a proof-of-concept and will not become a cure for the disease any time soon. The study's findings are still being scrutinized.
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Hey, I'm Danny, a co-founder at Fern [13]. We're a YC-backed team building SDKs as a service. We enable companies like Webflow and Cohere to offer SDKs in multiple programming languages. All you need is an OpenAPI specification. Fern automates the ongoing SDK maintenance, allowing engineers to spend time on more valuable work.
GritQL is a declarative query language for searching and modifying source code. It uses Rust and query optimization to scale up to over 10 million line repositories. GritQL's built-in module system has over 200 standard patterns. It can be used to rewrite any target language (JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, JSON, Java, Terraform, Solidity, CSS, Markdown, YAML, Rust, Go, or SQL).
All future versions of Redis will be released with source-available licenses starting with Redis 7.4. Redis will no longer be distributed under the three-clause Berkeley Software Distribution and will be instead dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License and Server Side Public License. The new licenses enable Redis to sustainably provide permissive use of its source code, allowing it to continue to be freely available to developers, customers, and partners through Redis Community Edition as Redis moves on to its next phase of development as a real-time data platform with a unified set of clients, tools, and core product offerings.
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.
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.
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.
The US Justice Department is preparing to sue Apple for violating antitrust law.
pgwire implements PostgreSQL Wire Protocol and provides APIs for building Postgres-compatible access layers for data services.
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.
Several key developers at Stability AI, creators of the popular text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion, have resigned.
SpaceX aims to launch the next Starship as soon as early May.
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Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman to run a new consumer AI unit called Microsoft AI. Suleyman is one of Google DeepMind's cofounders and chief executive of AI startup Inflection. Microsoft AI will combine consumer-facing products like Copilot, Bing, and Edge into one team. Microsoft will hire most of Inflection's staff, including AI engineers, researchers, and large language model builders. Inflection will switch its focus from its consumer chatbot to selling enterprise AI software to businesses.
Meta showed off a brief demo of how users will eventually be able to connect their accounts to the fediverse during the FediForum conference on Tuesday. The company's integration will let users share their posts across different platforms through Threads. It currently allows users to post to other services that interoperate through ActivityPub, but they can't view replies and can only see the likes they get, a fact Meta is working hard to change. A video showing how the integration currently works is available in the article.
Toyota's Woven City project, located close to the foot of Japan's Mount Fuji, will complete Phase 1 of its development by the end of the year and start trials in 2025. The city will be used to pilot experiments and innovations in personal mobility, automated driving, robots, and artificial intelligence. It will have streets for automated driving, pedestrians, and pedestrians using personal mobility vehicles, as well as underground roads for goods transportation. The project will begin with around 350 residents, mainly senior citizens, families with young children, and inventors. It will help Toyota develop next-generation cars and realize a mobility society in which everyone can move freely.
Researchers have used a generative AI tool called RFdiffusion to make completely new antibodies for the first time. The proof-of-principle work paves the way for the design of antibody drugs at the touch of a button. The technology is still a long way from reaching the clinic.
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There have been a number of news stories about AI developers recently. While some developers are concerned that the technology may soon take over their jobs, these claims are likely just attempts at grabbing attention. AI may not remove the need for developers - it will likely just create the need for AI developers. The future of software development will likely still involve humans - the exaggerated claims made by startups today are just marketing.
PostgreSQL is a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. Using Postgres for everything is becoming a mainstream best practice. ParadeDB and DuckDB add more performance, propelling PostgreSQL's analysis capabilities to the top tier of OLAP. Pigsty is a PostgreSQL distribution that aims to harness the collective power of PostgreSQL ecosystem extensions and democratize access to production-grade database services.
The government of Saudi Arabia plans to invest around $40 billion into artificial intelligence. It is in talks to create a tech fund through a partnership with Andreessen Horowitz and other financiers. The fund would make Saudi Arabia the world's largest investor in artificial intelligence. It will back an array of tech startups tied to artificial intelligence, including chip makers, data centers, and AI companies.
Building a company is not a trick for avoiding work, but it avoids many of the annoying things that come with a job. You need three things to build a successful startup: technology skills, an idea, and cofounders. This article talks about how to get all three. Making things for friends is a great source of ideas for young founders, who have the least amount of knowledge about what other people want and whose own wants are most predictive of future demand.
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An overview of Jensen Huang's keynote at Nvidia's annual GPU Technology Conference on Monday.
Section 174 is a US tax law code amendment that kicked in last year that requires companies to amortize R&D costs over five years, or fifteen if it was tied to foreign workers.
FeatUp, a new system created by MIT researchers, lets algorithms capture all of the high- and low-level details of a scene at the same time, boosting the resolution of any deep network without compromising on speed or quality.
jnv features an interactive JSON viewer and jq filter editor.
Nvidia's technology is an essential ingredient in AI progress.
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Apple is reportedly actively negotiating with Google to bring Gemini's generative AI technology to iOS. The company is aiming to release AI features to customers later this year. These features will likely be powered by a mix of first- and third-party AI models. While Apple has been testing its own in-house models, its AI tech is said to be less advanced than the competition.
Nvidia announced a new generation of artificial intelligence chips and software for running AI models during its developer's conference on Monday. The new Blackwell AI graphics processors are expected to ship later this year. NIM is a software that makes it easier to deploy AI. Nvidia aims to make all models runnable with all of its GPUs through NIM. NIM will make it easier to use older Nvidia GPUs for inference, allowing companies to continue using the GPUs they already own.
Suno's AI model creates music from text prompts. The model creates all the music itself while using OpenAI's ChatGPT to generate lyrics and titles. Suno's newest model is still a few weeks from public release. A link to an example of a track generated by the AI model is available in the article.
The Pyxis Ocean MC Shipping Kamsarmax vessel features a pair of 123-feet-tall solid 'wings' on top of its deck to harness wind power for propulsion assistance. After six months of operation, results from its journeys show that the technology offers a promising way to reduce existing vessels' emissions. The ship reportedly saved an average of 3.3 tons of fuel each day - it saved over 12 tons a day during optimal weather conditions. One potential issue with the adoption of the technology is the extra 125 feet of height added by the wings as they could complicate docking in many locations.
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You build apps with multiple services like AWS, Datadog, Snowflake, and Confluent. That means you get multiple bills which change every month (usually increasing). With Vantage [9], you can combine all your cloud bills into one report with budgets, alerting, and forecasting.
React Print is a UI kit for building and generating PDFs and print documents. It contains simple and reusable components and templates for creating invoices, documents, and brochures. React Print gives developers complete control over their layouts, including margins, headers, footers, and more. It allows developers to integrate dynamic data into PDFs.
There will likely still be a market for software developers in the foreseeable future. However, the nature of work will change and the tools the industry uses may be very different from what it uses now. This article presents several frameworks on how to think about the future of software development in the context of recent AI developments.
AR/VR/MR technology still hasn't reached the mass market yet - it is still at the beginning of the S-Curve. The components in the Vision Pro are still years away from fitting into a Quest 3's size, weight, and price. The Vision Pro is effectively a very polished prototype or a developer kit rather than a consumer product. While it is an impressive piece of technology, there's not much that people can do with it. The future of computing probably isn't more or bigger screens. It may take a few years before the technology really takes off.
Sam Altman recently appeared on a podcast where he discussed OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, the board saga, Elon Musk, and more. This page contains a transcript of the podcast. Each line includes timestamps with links to take readers to specific parts of the video. A link to the full two-hour video of the interview is available.
MrBeast is filming a game show for Amazon Prime Video that involves over 1,000 contestants, a $5,000,000 prize, and many other world records.
Starting in May, fully remote Dell employees won't be eligible for promotion, a policy update that represents a dramatic reversal from Dell's prior stance on work from home.
A guide to setting up Firefox from scratch that covers how to back up logins and passwords, essential extensions, recommended preference settings, and more.