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How today’s enterprise architect juggles strategy, tech and innovation

CIO

Innovator/experimenter: enterprise architects look for new innovative opportunities to bring into the business and know how to frame and execute experiments to maximize the learnings. Infrastructure architecture: Building the foundational layers of hardware, networking and cloud resources that support the entire technology ecosystem.

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China’s Major AI Hubs: Cities Leading in Policy, Innovation, Hardware, and Research

Ooda Loop

China’s integration […] The post Chinas Major AI Hubs: Cities Leading in Policy, Innovation, Hardware, and Research appeared first on OODAloop.

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AI factories: Is this the ‘secret success’ that unleashes innovation?

CIO

Ambitious businesses are already eyeing the next leap forward in AI technology fuelled by the growing imperative to deliver business success driven by digital innovation. AI investment is growing at 29% Compound Annual Growth Rate and will hit $632bn by 2028, with almost a third of this being invested in GenAI projects. [1]

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ThirdAI raises $6M to democratize AI to any hardware

TechCrunch

Houston-based ThirdAI , a company building tools to speed up deep learning technology without the need for specialized hardware like graphics processing units, brought in $6 million in seed funding. Their algorithm, “sub-linear deep learning engine,” instead uses CPUs that don’t require specialized acceleration hardware.

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Spatial Labs, a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, closes $10M seed round

TechCrunch

Spatial Labs , a web3 infrastructure and hardware company, announced today the closing of a $10 million seed round led by Blockchain Capital with participation from Marcy Venture Partners, the firm co-founded by Jay-Z. Next year, he hopes to launch a personal fund to support people of color and will focus on tech and hardware innovation.

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Humane, a stealthy hardware and software startup co-founded by an ex-Apple designer and engineer, raises $100M

TechCrunch

5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. ” Meanwhile, the company currently has nearly 50 job openings listed, including engineers with camera and computer vision experience, hardware engineers, designers and security experts, among many others. One sign of where all that funding will be going.)

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Democracies are fragile, and hardware is hard

TechCrunch

And also that crowdfunding isn't always the best way to launch an innovative product. Sometimes it's important to state the obvious. That democracies are fragile but that technology can help. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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