Accel closes oversubscribed $550M India fund within weeks, 19 months after its last

Accel has closed a new $550 million India fund, less than two years after raising its previous India-focused vehicle, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort. The new India fund was oversubscribed and closed within weeks, people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Accel still has more than 55% of itsprevious $650 … Devamını oku

Defense drone developer Cambridge Aerospace raises $300M

Cambridge Aerospace plans to bring its next product, Starhammer, to market in 2027. | Source: Cambridge Aerospace Cambridge Aerospace Ltd. this week raised $300 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to $3.4 billion. The defense drone developer said it plans to expand its manufacturing capabilities to deliver on existing and new contracts. The … Devamını oku

Compression Is Prediction

I was reading about compression recently when I stumbled upon something crazy: that compressors and LLMs are, at their core, trying to solvethe exact same problem. In this post, I’m going to walk us through the basics of compression to understand its deep relationship with language modeling. It’s probably going to blow your mind. There … Devamını oku

How we used to get jobs: A newspaper classifieds story

One of my first big personal successes in my career was way back in 2000, when I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s in-house photographer. It was my second staff photography job, the first one being at Christie’s auction house. Polo offered me twice what I was making at Christie’s, and accepting the position was a no-brainer. … Devamını oku

Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 lightning and Nemo Switchyard

As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over where AI runs and how it’s deployed and evolves. Today, NVIDIA is expanding its Nemotron 3 model family with Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the highest-efficiency model in its class for long-running agentic AI workloads. This release follows Nemotron … Devamını oku

Mojo 1.0

Modular 26.4: SOTA MoE Serving, Model Bringup via Agent Skills, Mojo 1.0 Beta 2 and More Inkwell: Why Your Inference Platform Matters As Much As Your Model Get all our latest news, announcements and updates delivered directly to your inbox. Unsubscribe at anytime. ⚠️ This form requires JavaScript to function. Please enable JavaScript in your … Devamını oku

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

ChatGPT is on desktops across the world, but there’s been one place where it’s been lacking: the Linux community. Certain sectors of the open source developer communityhave been clamoringfor OpenAI to bring its chatbot to their neck of the woods. As of this week, OpenAI has rectified this oversight,launchinga dedicated ChatGPT app for Linux. “Linux … Devamını oku

Google’s Gemini app surges to one billion users

In a significant milestone for Google, CEO Sundar Pichaiannouncedvia X that the Gemini app has become one of the company’s fastest-growing products, recently surpassing 1 billion monthly active users. Pichai also noted it was the 14th Google product to hit the 1 billion mark. With this rapid growth, Gemini is keeping pace with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, … Devamını oku