This episode has us diving headfirst into a the tsunami of AI advancements and the hype cycles surrounding them. Join us in a thought-provoking conversation with Nathan Lambert as we explore how to navigate this complex landscape.
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Practically Intelligent E9: Exploring AI’s Frontier in 2024: Promise vs. Reality in Tech’s New Era
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Join us as we dissect the key assertions made about the future of AI, from its transformative impact on technology to the burgeoning role of open-source. We’ll highlight the most compelling insights, challenge the hyperboles, and correct any misleading narratives we find.
Full ArticlePractically Intelligent E8: Navigating the New Frontier of Multimodal AI with Jacob Solawetz
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Join us in episode eight of Practically Intelligent as we welcome Jacob Solawetz, CTO at arcee.ai and former founding engineer at Roboflow. Jacob, a trailblazer in computer vision and AI, discusses the evolution and impact of multimodal AI technologies.
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Tola Capital’s Sheila Gulati: Why AI Is the Most Important Tech Trend
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Tola Capital Managing Director Sheila Gulati opines on AI and investing in this Barron’s interview with Andy Serwer
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4 key devsecops skills for the generative AI era
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Tola Capital Partner Akshay Bhushan discusses data engineering and Generative AI in this InfoWorld article on DevSecOps.
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Practically Intelligence E7: The Power of Benchmarking in AI Progress
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Praveen Paritosh, a visionary in the field of AI research, discusses the history of shared data benchmarks and how they serve to guide AI research, legacy benchmarks like SQuAD and their historical influence on the AI community, the complexity of benchmarks as proxies and the fine line between conceptual and rote learning in AI development.
Full Article Pilot vs. Co-pilot: How Startups Will Reshape the Future of Work with AI
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Entrepreneurs and incumbents are now thinking about how to bootstrap AI into existing products and services, and how to augment human work with automation. AI can be used for different operations and take different forms; it can either be your co-pilot or your pilot.
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Investing in the Next Generation of AI Companies with Tola Capital Fund III
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Tola Capital will be investing this new fund’s $230 million into Seed and early-stage start-ups, focusing on AI technologies.
Read more Tola Capital raises $230M for third fund to help Seattle-area firm back enterprise software startups
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Geekwire: Tola Capital raised $230 million for its third fund
Full Article Tola Capital Closes Fund III to Invest in the Next Generation of AI Companies
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Tola Capital Closes Fund III to Invest in the Next Generation of AI Companies
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Tola Capital, investing in AI-enabled enterprise software, closes largest fund at $230M
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TechCrunch: Tola Capital, investing in AI-enabled enterprise software, closes largest fund at $230M
Full ArticleStartups are hitting a road block when selling their AI to big companies. Investors and founders explain how to get around it.
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Sheila Gulati said procurement teams are newly focused on data concerns around AI, including privacy, explainability, regulations, and other considerations.
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