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Exafunction aims to reduce AI dev costs by abstracting away hardware

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But they share a common bottleneck: hardware. New techniques and chips designed to accelerate certain aspects of AI system development promise to (and, indeed, already have) cut hardware requirements. Emerging from stealth today, Exafunction is developing a platform to abstract away the complexity of using hardware to train AI systems.

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

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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. The metaverse to us is not a virtual space that people go to spend time in. .”

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Transfr raises $12M Series A to bring virtual reality to manufacturing-plant floors

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To Bharani Rajakumar , the founder of Transfr , the dilemma of displaced workers is the perfect use case for virtual reality technology. Transfr leverages virtual reality to create simulations of manufacturing-plant shop floors or warehouses for training purposes. Transfr’s core technology is its software.

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Is VMware really becoming the new mainframe?

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But because the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive and pervasive to replace even if they may want to, they may find themselves with a mainframe-type of dilemma. VMware now has several competitors in the virtualization space, with more than 30 server virtualization vendors listed in a recent Gartner market guide.

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Labster gets millions from a16z to bring virtual science lab software to the world

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billion in assets under management , has poured millions into an edtech startup that sells virtual STEM lab simulations to institutions. Labster lands new cash to bring its virtual reality science lab software to Asia. With platform ambition, Labster is pausing its virtual reality efforts, which requires acquiring headsets at scale. “VR

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As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home

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It’s no secret the pandemic has pushed healthcare to become virtual, in theory making it easier for patients to attend appointments and access the care they need. As healthcare goes remote, Equipt Health brings medical hardware to the home by Andrew Mendez originally published on TechCrunch.

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Disney-backed Inworld raises new cash for its AI-powered virtual characters

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The brainchild of Ilya Gelfenbeyn, Michael Ermolenko and Kylan Gibbs, the startup’s AI-powered service generates virtual characters primarily for games, but also in broader entertainment and marketing campaigns. “ Inworld is a creative platform for building virtual characters for immersive realities. .