Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

LLM customization Is the startup using a mostly off-the-shelf LLM — e.g., OpenAI ’s ChatGPT — or a meaningfully customized LLM? Different ways to customize an LLM include fine-tuning an off-the-shelf model or building a custom one using an open-source LLM like Meta ’s Llama. trillion to $4.4 trillion annually.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. Most of the successful data presented by these providers is based on individual case studies, with problems involving limited data sets and limited, generic objectives.

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CIO

JANUARY 6, 2025

One of them is Katherine Wetmur, CIO for cyber, data, risk, and resilience at Morgan Stanley. Wetmur says Morgan Stanley has been using modern data science, AI, and machine learning for years to analyze data and activity, pinpoint risks, and initiate mitigation, noting that teams at the firm have earned patents in this space.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

It makes sense as banks and insurance companies gather a ton of data and know a lot of information about their customers. They could use that data to train new models and roll out machine learning applications. They have developed their own models and they can see that their models work well when they run them on past data.

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CIO

APRIL 25, 2025

Few used the term agent, let alone agentic AI , in 2018, but the bank built a team of software engineers, linguistic specialists, and banking experts to create the small language model, which has been tuned over the years using customer feedback data from the call center. We are not writing essays with Erica. Gopalkrishnan says.

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CIO

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Large language models (LLMs) are very good at spotting patterns in data of all types, and then creating artefacts in response to user prompts that match these patterns. This year saw the initial hype and excitement over AI settle down with more realistic expectations taking hold. But this isnt intelligence in any human sense.

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Crunchbase News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

billion raised in 2023, according to Crunchbase data. billion raised in 2023, according to Crunchbase data. That’s a far cry from a robotics arm in a warehouse taking things off a shelf, and those two startups are not the only ones raising big rounds to try to expand the occupational skills of robots.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its autonomous underwater vehicle and modern cloud-based data service. Fortunately Bedrock is here to drag that mapping process into the 21st century with its autonomous underwater vehicle and modern cloud-based data service. Image Credits: Bedrock.

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CIO

JANUARY 8, 2025

The reasons include higher than expected costs, but also performance and latency issues; security, data privacy, and compliance concerns; and regional digital sovereignty regulations that affect where data can be located, transported, and processed. Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments.

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CIO

MAY 21, 2025

However, it allows M&S to put a positive spin on the revelation in the companys latest financial update that the attack, which hit the company on April 19, will knock 300 million ($400 million) off its profits for the next year. He said that these costs will be presented separately as an adjusting item.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Shelf Engine ’s mission to eliminate food waste in grocery retailers now has some additional celebrity backers. The company has already helped retailers divert 1 million pounds of food waste from landfills, Stefan Kalb, co-founder and CEO of Shelf Engine, told TechCrunch. This includes a $12 million Series A from 2020.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

This has traditionally fallen under the purview of data loss prevention software (DLP), but Metomic , an early-stage startup, wants to update DLP in a modern SaaS context without getting in the way of people doing their jobs. So with Metomic we help companies protect sensitive data in SaaS applications.

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Trigent

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Using a merchant’s order history and website activity data, Bandit ML is supposed to help them determine which offer will be most effective with which shopper. Bandit ML aims to optimize and automate the process of presenting the right offer to the right customer. It also raised a $1.32 It also raised a $1.32 Image Credits: Bandit ML.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

While at Cruise, Macneil says that he saw firsthand the lack of off-the-shelf tooling for robotics and autonomous vehicle development; Cruise had to hire entire teams to build tooling in-house, including apps for visualization, data management, AI and machine learning, simulation and more. ” Foxglove’s cloud suite.

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CIO

APRIL 9, 2025

That was my first push into technology, and utilizing it to streamline processes, data, the way people worked, and have it fully integrated into a full stack solution, she says. One of our innovations has been a solution called Fault IQ, which uses an off the shelf detection product. No two days are the same, she says.

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CIO

JUNE 19, 2024

Data centers are hot, in more ways than one. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Danish engineering company Danfoss have announced a partnership to help mitigate the issues: an off-the-shelf heat recovery module branded HPE IT Sustainability Services – Data Center Heat Recovery.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

One way to get all these technologies into single devices is just to agglomerate a bunch of off-the-shelf silicon chips and jam them into a product. Rather, it’s a combination of technologies that are predicted to become critical for the future of the internet of things across industries as diverse as shipping and security.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The trio had the idea to use drones to gather data — specifically data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Arora co-founded Gather AI in 2019 with Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI are putting more pressure on analytics and IT leaders to get their houses in order when it comes to data strategy and data management. But the enthusiasm must be tempered by the need to put data management and data governance in place.

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CIO

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Customization gives way to standardization The traditional practice of enterprise technology leaders customizing an ERP solution to meet their specific enterprise or business needs is giving way to implementing an off-the-shelf solution. This is cumbersome and leads to additional cost.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

For years grocery retailers have been using data driven forecasting to help them predict demand to figure out which products to reorder to keep shelves stocked. That’s nothing new. revenue boost. ” “And because that is the opinion … until now, for the most part, retailers have just relied upon people to do this part.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

While pitching their automated budgeting app, they began receiving inquiries from people who weren’t so much interested in the budgeting tool as they were about the data engine around it and integration work they were doing. So they got started building the version of Quiltt that exists today.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Fresh off a $100 million funding round , Hugging Face, which provides hosted AI services and a community-driven portal for AI tools and data sets, today announced a new product in collaboration with Microsoft. ” “The mission of Hugging Face is to democratize good machine learning,” Delangue said in a press release.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The chief information and digital officer for the transportation agency moved the stack in his data centers to a best-of-breed multicloud platform approach and has been on a mission to squeeze as much data out of that platform as possible to create the best possible business outcomes. Data engine on wheels’. NJ Transit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Despite Apple and Facebook investing billions into a “metaverse” future, in recent years there’s been a distinct drop-off in venture deals for startups focused on finding opportunities in augmented reality. AR capabilities allow users to hold their phone up to chart a path to the object of their desire.

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OTS Solutions

JANUARY 10, 2020

It’s a technology that utilizes RPA tools to carry out actions such as data modification, transaction processing, and computer communications, just to name a few. The Rest-Assured Way To Overcome (Robotic Process Automation) RPA Challenges. Robotic process automation (RPA) is a way to automate business processes. Challenges of RPA.

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CIO

JANUARY 25, 2024

Among their biggest concerns: exposing intellectual property through publicly available generative AI models, revealing the personal data of users to third-party vendors or service providers, and securing the AI itself from criminal hackers. This type of AI assistant can be delivered through a pre-built, off-the-shelf AI solution.

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Erik Bernhardsson

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Just some examples from things I've worked on or close to: Spotify built a whole P2P architecture in C++ in order to distribute streaming music to listeners, something which today is a trivial problem (put the data on a CDN). It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Last month, Google’s DeepMind robotics team showed off its own impressive work, in the form of RT-2 (Robotic Transformer 2). RoboAgent can quickly train a robot using limited in-domain data while relying primarily on abundantly available free data from the internet to learn a variety of tasks. Sign up for Actuator here.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Along that journey, we tried all the off the shelf tools that exist and they had a really hard time keeping pace with the needs and the requests of the business,” CEO Moallemi recalls. “We The trio describe Mosaic as a “strategic finance platform” that is designed to ingest data from a number of systems — ERPs, HRISs, CRMs, etc. —

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

I believe that in five or 10 years down the line, you’ll be laughing that we really used to just go in and pick up products just off the shelf, without knowing what we’re supposed to be using. Skin+Me is probably the best-known perceived competitor, but this is a prescription provider.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Houston-headquartered Paladin is a startup building a custom drone hardware and software solution for cities to be able to respond to emergencies faster and with better data. Back then, the focus was on building software to integrate with an off-the-shelf DJI drone. Emergency response is a time-sensitive business.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Calculating commissions is really complicated and mission-critical — think of it like a very complicated form of payroll — each company has a unique commission plan that involves a lot more calculations and data than your typical salary payroll math,” Teng said. CaptivateIQ must be doing something right.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Data science teams are stymied by disorganization at their companies, impacting efforts to deploy timely AI and analytics projects. In a recent survey of “data executives” at U.S.-based ” The market for synthetic data is bigger than you think. These are ultimately organizational challenges.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Its platform sits within an organization and ingests any data source that a company might wish to feed into it. One of the biggest challenges for organizations in modern times is deciding where, when and how to use the advances of technology, when the organizations are not technology companies themselves.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

million (~$6.1M) funding round off the back of increased demand for its computer vision training platform. Berlin-based Mobius Labs has closed a €5.2 The Series A investment is led by Ventech VC, along with Atlantic Labs, APEX Ventures, Space Capital, Lunar Ventures plus some additional angel investors.

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