Tag: Sim

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Deirdre Bosa

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/23/cnbc/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Deirdre Bosa Feedly Summary: According to a document that I viewed, Anthropic is telling investors that it is expecting a billion dollars in revenue this year. Third-party API is expected to make up the majority of sales, 60% to 75% of the total. That refers to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/23/mike-isaac-and-erin-griffith/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Mike Isaac and Erin Griffith Feedly Summary: OpenAI’s monthly revenue hit $300 million in August, up 1,700 percent since the beginning of 2023, and the company expects about $3.7 billion in annual sales this year, according to financial documents reviewed by The New York Times. […]…

  • Hacker News: How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance

    Source URL: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/tech-coup-new-book-shows-how-unchecked-power-companies-destabilizing-governance Source: Hacker News Title: How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text revolves around Marietje Schaake’s book, “The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley,” which highlights the growing power of tech companies and their implications for democracy.…

  • AlgorithmWatch: Border Security: When Even Public Information Is Kept from the Public 

    Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/border-security-when-even-public-information-is-kept-from-the-public/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: Border Security: When Even Public Information Is Kept from the Public  Feedly Summary: EU border security projects are required to provide publicly available documents. But when they will be disclosed seems to be a different matter. The agency in charge has an ingenious take on transparency. AI Summary and…

  • Hacker News: Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

    Source URL: https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-performance-outperforms/ Source: Hacker News Title: Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the advancements in the Rustls TLS library, focusing on its performance and memory safety features, which are critical for secure communication in applications. Rustls aims to overcome the vulnerabilities associated with…

  • Hacker News: RunwayML releases Act One: obsoleting traditional motion capture

    Source URL: https://runwayml.com/research/introducing-act-one Source: Hacker News Title: RunwayML releases Act One: obsoleting traditional motion capture Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Runway has launched Act-One, an innovative tool that enables the generation of expressive character animations from simple video inputs. This development presents a significant advancement in generative models, by simplifying the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Anthropic

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/22/anthropic/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Anthropic Feedly Summary: For the same cost and similar speed to Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3.5 Haiku improves across every skill set and surpasses even Claude 3 Opus, the largest model in our previous generation, on many intelligence benchmarks. Claude 3.5 Haiku is particularly strong on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Initial explorations of Anthropic’s new Computer Use capability

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/22/computer-use/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Initial explorations of Anthropic’s new Computer Use capability Feedly Summary: Two big announcements from Anthropic today: a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet model and a new API mode that they are calling computer use. (They also pre-announced Haiku 3.5, but that’s not available yet so I’m ignoring it…

  • Hacker News: The PlanetScale vectors public beta

    Source URL: https://planetscale.com/blog/announcing-planetscale-vectors-public-beta Source: Hacker News Title: The PlanetScale vectors public beta Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: PlanetScale has launched an open beta for its vector search and storage capabilities, which integrate with its MySQL database. The new feature allows for the simultaneous management of vector data and relational data, ensuring…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Vertex AI

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/upgraded-claude-3-5-sonnet-with-computer-use-on-vertex-ai/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing Anthropic’s upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we’ve taken an open approach in building our Vertex AI platform — to provide the most powerful AI tools available along with unparalleled choice and flexibility. That’s why Vertex AI delivers access to over…