Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is planning a new iPad mini, possibly for 2024, and nearing production of an iPhone SE without a home button and iPad Air models for early 2025  —  – New SE will use modernized design to entice budget shoppers  — Company also preparing iPad mini for this year, Air for 2025 Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fortune: Sources: many OpenAI staff thought o1 wasn’t ready to be unveiled and then-CTO Mira Murati was often stuck in arguments between research and technical teams  —  When OpenAI debuted its latest AI model, GPT4-o, in a slick live webcast this past May, it was Mira Murati, the company’s chief technology officer … Lees verder op Tech Meme

TechCrunch: Sources: 11x.ai, which makes AI sales reps, raised a ~$50M Series B led by a16z at a ~$350M valuation; source: a $24M Series A earlier in 2024 valued it at $90M  —  11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned. Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Economic Times: Sources: Peak XV has cut its $2.85B fund by $465M, or ~16%, over a year after its split from Sequoia, with the bulk of the reduction coming at the growth stage  —  Venture capital firm Peak XV Partners, formerly Sequoia Capital India, has pared the size of its $2.85 billion fund by 16% … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is led by the 72B parameter NVLM-D-72B and can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only tasks  —  Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Nvidia details NVLM 1.0, a family of LLMs that is led by the 72B parameter NVLM-D-72B and can handle vision and language tasks while enhancing text-only tasks  —  Nvidia has released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that competes with proprietary systems from industry leaders like OpenAI and Google. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Numa, which uses AI to automate tasks for auto dealerships and has 600 customers in the US and Canada, raised a $32M Series B led by Touring Capital and Mitsui  —  Sometimes, a pivot ends up being the smartest decision company leaders can make.  See Netflix’s pivot from DVDs to streaming … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: Open-source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx has been removed from GitHub, and its team has reportedly ceased development after Nintendo contacted its creator  —  GitHub removal comes months after a Nintendo lawsuit took down the Yuzu emulator.  —  Popular open source Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: The UK says the ransomware gang Evil Corp. conducted cyberattacks and espionage on NATO allies on Kremlin orders; the UK, US, and Australia sanction the group  —  – Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members  — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: The UK says the ransomware gang Evil Corp. conducted cyberattacks and espionage ops on NATO allies on Kremlin orders; the UK, US, Australia sanction the group  —  – Evil Corp. cybercrime crew conducted espionage on NATO members  — UK, US and Australia issued sanctions against alleged hackers Lees verder op Tech Meme