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Electric Sheep raises $21.5M to make off-the-shelf lawnmowers autonomous

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Once installed, users take the system through a standard mowing path once to train it. From there, the system relies on a variety of on-board sensors, including lidar, cameras and GPS, to navigate and avoid collisions. After making some tough internal decisions to delay launch back in 2020, the robot mower is still MIA. Dick, et al.)

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5 Things To Look For When Evaluating AI Startups

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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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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

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. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat — “one-size-fits-all” syndrome.

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Taktile makes it easier to leverage machine learning in the financial industry

TechCrunch

The product works with both off-the-shelf models and customer-built models. As for data sources, Taktile supports data warehouses, data lakes as well as ERP and CRM systems. Meet Taktile , a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. It has raised a $4.7

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

TechCrunch

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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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

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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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

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While up to 80% of the enterprise-scale systems Endava works on use the public cloud partially or fully, about 60% of those companies are migrating back at least one system. Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money.

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