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5 machine learning essentials nontechnical leaders need to understand

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We’re living in a phenomenal moment for machine learning (ML), what Sonali Sambhus , head of developer and ML platform at Square, describes as “the democratization of ML.” ML recruiting strategy. Recruiting for ML comes with several challenges. Secondly, finding the level of experience required can be challenging.

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IT leaders: What’s the gameplan as tech badly outpaces talent?

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Hiring AI talent US IT staffing firm Motion Recruitment found that AI engineers saw over a 12% growth in salaries compared to a year ago, and mid-level workers saw a 20% increase. And with all the competition for AI talent, some companies are taking a different approach to recruiting.

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Activeloop snags $5M seed to build streaming database for AI applications

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“[We are] introducing a database for AI, specifically a storage layer that helps to very efficiently store the data and then stream this to machine learning applications or training models to do computer vision, audio processing, NLP (natural language processing) and so on,” Buniatyan explained.

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Databricks crossed $350M run rate in Q3, up from $200M one year ago

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Ghodsi took over as CEO in 2016 after serving as the company’s VP of engineering. Or, perhaps a company wants to find patterns in some economic data. How do they find that information? He’s also a co-founder.

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HiddenLayer emerges from stealth to protect AI models from attacks

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Sestito, the former director of threat research at Cylance and VP of engineering at Qualys, co-founded the company several months ago with Tanner Burns and Jim Ballard. In fact, at HiddenLayer, we believe we’re not far off from seeing machine learning models ransomed back to their organizations.”

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

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“We find ourselves in an extremely good place to have the right solution that meets the market needs.” They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering.

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NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market

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.” NeuReality was co-founded in 2019 by Tzvika Shmueli, Yossi Kasus and Tanach, who previously served as a director of engineering at Marvell and Intel. Shmueli was formerly the VP of back-end infrastructure at Mellanox Technologies and the VP of engineering at Habana Labs.

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