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As you may have heard, DeepSeek-R1 is making waves. It’s all over the AI newsfeed, hailed as the first open-source reasoning model of its kind. The buzz? Well-deserved. The model? Powerful. DeepSeek-R1 represents the current frontier in reasoning models, pushing the boundaries of what open-source AI can achieve. But here’s the part you won’t see in the headlines: working with it isn’t exactly straightforward. Prototyping can be clunky. Deploying to production? Even trickier. That’s where DataRobot comes in. We make it easier to develop with and deploy DeepSeek-R1, so you can spend less time wrestling with complexity and more time…
Ditto, the developer of a database optimized for use in edge environments, today announced that it has closed an $82 million funding round. Top Tier Capital Partners and Acrew Capital led the Series B investment. They were joined by U.S. Innovative Technology Fund, True Ventures, Amity Ventures, Fundrise, Friends & Family Capital, Advance Venture Partners and Internet Initiative Japan. Ditto is now valued at $462 million, more than double what it was worth after its previous funding round. Ditto, officially DittoLive Inc., provides a database optimized to run on handsets and connected devices. Companies can use the database to build…
Generative AI companies Anthropic and Databricks have teamed up to sell AI tools for business, trying to raise $100 million in five years, according to the Wall Street Journal. The partnership is an attempt to alleviate both companies being “under tremendous pressure” to perform relative to their valuations as the AI bubble threatens to burst. What will the Anthropic/Databricks partnership look like for business customers? Anthropic and Databricks sales teams will promote and sell one another’s products, according to The Wall Street Journal. The companies will target large corporate customers who want to build their own AI agents, which are: generative…
AI will be the driving force behind tech M&A deals in 2025. From AI agent consolidation to big tech’s next battlefield, we highlight 7 areas where we expect to see deals this year. Watch a live briefing on these tech M&A predictions here. The AI boom has set the stage for a wave of tech M&A this year. After 2 consecutive years of decline, tech M&A deals were up in 2024, with some of the largest deals centering on AI. AI companies have also bucked the general downward trend in exit valuations, instead seeing nearly double the median acquisition price…
By Mark Dryden For entrepreneurs working on climate tech startups, the energy transition offers a great opportunity to power new energy-hungry industries from renewables-rich countries, many of which exist in the developing world. Kenya, for example, aspires to become a direct-air-capture hub, while the Middle East is targeting a manufacturing boom. Consider remarkably similar Chile and Namibia as case studies; both have small populations, huge transition metals industries, world-leading renewables growth, and bold hydrogen export ambitions. However, stubbornly elevated energy prices in both are challenging nascent hydrogen and other energy-intensive industries such as data centers, e-fuels, carbon capture and decarbonized…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More While many enterprises are now racing to adopt and deploy AI, credit bureau giant Experian has taken a very measured approach. Experian has developed its own internal processes, frameworks and governance models that have helped it test out generative AI, deploy it at scale and have an impact. The company’s journey has helped to transform operations from a traditional credit bureau into a sophisticated AI-powered platform company. Its approach—blending advanced machine learning (ML), agentic AI architectures and grassroots innovation—has improved business…
When Intel Capital announced its plans to spin out from semiconductor giant Intel in January, it came as a bit of a shock considering the firm has been operating as Intel’s venture investment arm since 1991. In many ways this decision marks the end of an era for what’s considered by some to be the first corporate venture capital firm of all time. The firm was founded nearly 35 years ago and has backed notable enterprise tech companies including: DocuSign, MongoDB and Hugging Face, among nearly 2,000 others. But for Mark Rostick, vice president and senior managing director at Intel…
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❤️ Check out Lambda here and sign up for their GPU Cloud: Guide for using DeepSeek (R1) on Lambda (can be applied to DeepSeek V3 too, see links below): 📝 DeepSeek V3 (0324) is available here: Try it online (note: they see your data, I prefer private, see below): Paper: How to run locally: Ollama is probably the simplest way to run it – support is likely coming soon too! The previous version is available, keep an eye out for the V3 0324 version: Ollama + 0324 versions might appear here: Sources: 📝 My paper on simulations that look almost…
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