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How AI orchestration has become more important than the models themselves

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As many companies that have already adopted off-the-shelf GenAI models have found, getting these generic LLMs to work for highly specialized workflows requires a great deal of customization and integration of company-specific data. Large language models (LLMs) just keep getting better. From Llama3.1 to Gemini to Claude3.5

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Ellen DeGeneres, Portia de Rossi, Shaun White, Shawn Mendes get behind Shelf Engine

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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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Martie launches with $3M to divert shelf-stable food items from landfills

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Louise Fritjofsson and Kari Morris started the company in January to “rescue” pantry staples and offer them, initially in California, for between 40% and 70% off retail prices. If you don’t have a sustainable approach you shouldn’t do it,” Fritjofsson told TechCrunch. “We The pair met two years ago.

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New School Foods’ filet looks and tastes like salmon, but it’s actually plants

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New School Foods also has grants from Canadian government agencies, including Sustainable Development Technology Canada and Protein Industries Canada. New School Foods said its muscle fiber and scaffolding technology to produce whole-cut fish alternative products is now at a point where it can be demonstrated and a pilot facility built.

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Udacity raises $75M in debt, says its tech education business is profitable after enterprise pivot

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Online education tools continue to see a surge of interest boosted by major changes in work and learning practices in the midst of a global health pandemic. The funding will be used to continue investing in its platform to target more business customers. Now it’s time to build out a sales team to go after them.”

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How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company

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An early observation was that there were already several large, established players making off-the-shelf electric motors. Brian Casey is CEO of ECM PCB Stator Technology. Initially, we approached this as a hardware challenge until we determined that the key to meeting next-generation electric motor demand actually lies in software.

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HPE and Danfoss put excess data center heat to use

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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. And that means cooling costs are also growing. Any capture is good.