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Driver launches an AI-powered platform for creating technical documentation

The technical documentation for chips in the semiconductor industry is often thousands of pages long. Keeping those documents updated with every revision is a massive lift, as is generating the manuals and tutorials for engineers who then implement those chips in their own products. And to make matters even more complicated, very few products only

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TensorWave thinks it can break Nvidia’s grip on AI compute with an AMD-powered cloud

Chipmaker Nvidia notched $30 billion in revenue last fiscal quarter, driven in large part by the AI industry’s insatiable demand for GPUs. GPUs are essential for training and running AI models; they contain thousands of cores that work in parallel to quickly perform the linear algebra equations scaffolding the models. The appetite for AI remains

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Sonair takes a cue from dolphins to build autonomous 3D vision sans LIDAR

Ultrasound is perhaps best known as the technology that enables non-invasive body scans, underwater communication, and to help us park our cars. A young startup called Sonair out of Norway wants to employ it for something else: 3D computer vision used in autonomous hardware applications.  Sonair’s founder and CEO Knut Sandven believes the company’s application

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How Kapa uses LLMs to help companies answer users’ technical questions reliably

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) have been all the rage in recent years, upending traditional online search via the likes of ChatGPT while improving customer support, content generation, translation and more. Now, one fledgling startup is using LLMs to build AI assistants capable specifically of answering complex questions for developers, software end-users, and

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Instant harkens back to a pre-Google Firebase

Instant wants to recapture some of the magic of the pre-Google-acquisition Firebase by building a modern, Postgres-based open source version of it.   Like the original Firebase, San Francisco-based Instant focuses on giving front-end developers easy access to a real-time database with offline capabilities without the need to manage any of the back-end architecture. The service

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Pallet uses AI to bring logistics into the 21st century

Transportation and warehousing are multi-trillion-dollar industries, but the technologies that power them are often outdated, inefficient and siloed. Pallet, which is announcing an $18 million Series A funding round led by Bain Capital Ventures today, has built an all-in-one transportation and warehouse management system that uses AI to help these businesses streamline their operations from

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