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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

Instead of building a model from scratch you can now buy , for common machine learning tasks, pretrained models from others and here , much like chip designers buying IP Cores.). Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. Open-Source Code, Pretrained Models and Frameworks. What Makes AI Possible Now?

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital).

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The Creator Economy is rising, but challenges abound

VC Cafe

New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creators , Eric Feng. New media platforms are enabling a new creator type: Digitally Native Vertical Creator s, Eric Feng. They might flock to new, open source solution, to reduce platform fees and increase their share. ” Eric Feng.

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Spectacles and $SNAP’s $20B Valuation

Austin Startup

The smartphone is for everyone, we don’t have to think the iPhone is about a certain demographic, or country or vertical market: it’s for everyone. As Amazon built its logistical and server infrastructure, it systematically moved into one new vertical at a time: shoes, kitchen appliances, etc. I think AR is that big, it’s huge.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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Build vs. Buy: Which is Right for Your Business?

ConversionXL

Market share: You may already be a category leader, and growth requires you to expand into new verticals. Technical debt happens from unexpected bugs and additional development work that results from using short-term solutions (like templates or open-source code). You need to build or buy these features to keep up. Integrations.