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Sign Up|Jobs|Advertise|View Online TLDR Together With TLDR 2023-06-21 NVIDIA Elite Partner introduces Supercomputers as a New Asset Class (Sponsor) In the first offering of its kind, IaaS provider NexGen Cloud is giving investors the opportunity to purchase its GPU cloud servers. The company is projecting 30-50% annualised returns. Targeting 150% profit over 5 years Income-producing hands-off asset Uncapped ROI Limited Opportunity Fully trackable earning via platform First mover advantage - AI Boom needs more compute! Get the info pack Are you consuming accelerated compute? Make your complex workload easier by launching your virtual instances with our platform, Hyperstack. Enterprise-grade accelerated instances at scale with an easy-to-use platform. 5x more efficient and up to 80% cheaper when compared to the EC2 instance! Download Price Comparison 📱 Big Tech & Startups OpenAI plans app store for AI software, The Information reports (2 minute read) OpenAI plans to launch a marketplace for AI models built on top of its technology. Enterprise customers often tailor OpenAI's technology to their specific use cases. The marketplace would allow these customers to make their models available to other businesses. It will compete with other app stores, including one by Microsoft, and help OpenAI's technology reach more people. Rivian is the next automaker to adopt Tesla's charging plugs (2 minute read) The Combined Changing System (CCS) standard's connector and cable are big and unwieldy, unlike Tesla's more elegant alternative, the North American Charging Standard (NACS). Rivian will start building NACS ports into its vehicles in 2025. It will make adaptors available for its customers. Tesla charging sites will be added to Rivian's mobile and vehicle navigation apps. 🚀 Science & Futuristic Technology DeepMind's co-founder suggested testing an AI chatbot's ability to turn $100,000 into $1 million to measure human-like intelligence (4 minute read) Mustafa Suleyman, formerly head of applied AI at DeepMind and now CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI, believes that the Turing test is an outdated method to test AI intelligence. The Turing test doesn't reveal information about what systems understand, whether they have established complex internal monologues, or if they engage in planning over abstract time horizons. Suleyman proposes a concept called artificial capable intelligence (ACI), where bots are able to complete short-term goals and tasks with little human input. Bots can achieve ACI by passing a modern Turing test that involves turning a $100,000 seed investment into $1 million. Suleyman believes that AI will be able to achieve that milestone in the next two years. RoboCat: A self-improving robotic agent (5 minute read) RoboCat is a self-improving AI agent for robotics. It learns to perform tasks across different arms and then self-generates new training data to improve its technique. RoboCat can solve and adapt to multiple tasks across different robots. It learns much faster than other state-of-the-art models, picking up new tasks with as few as 100 demonstrations. A video demonstrating RoboCat's abilities is available in the article. 💻 Programming, Design & Data Science Novel (GitHub Repo) Novel is a Notion-style editor with AI-powered autocompletions. It can be deployed to Vercel with one click. A 30-second video demo is available. How to use GitHub Copilot: Prompts, tips, and use cases (12 minute read) This guide shares examples and best practices for communicating with GitHub Copilot. Generative AI coding tools are transforming the way developers work, but just like with any emerging tech, there is a learning curve. Learning how GitHub Copilot processes information can help developers adjust how they communicate with it. 🎁 Miscellaneous Not That Kind of Open (3 minute read) Some Mastodon/Fediverse administrators have pledged to preemptively block Meta's upcoming ActivityPub service. ActivityPub makes social networking truly open. Blocking Meta from participating in the protocol seems to go against that ideal. There are billions of people who use Meta's services and there is no reason to cut them off from the ActivityPub social world. Everyone Has a Side Hustle Now. Is That a Good Thing? (10 minute read) Almost everyone has a side hustle. Even many leaders have significant side hustles. Remote work means that people no longer have to hide their other gigs from their co-workers. Many founders and CEOs don't like this. Side hustles are a distraction to workers' full-time jobs. While people can be good at doing more than one thing, being truly great requires full commitment. ⚡ Quick Links Emerging Architectures for LLM Applications (21 minute read) This post shares a reference architecture for the emerging LLM tech stack that shows the most common systems, tools, and design patterns used by tech companies and startups. arguably (GitHub Repo) arguably turns functions into command line interfaces, automatically generating help messages using docstrings. iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma automatically generates Apple ID passkeys (3 minute read) iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma users are automatically assigned a passkey to their Apple IDs for use on iCloud and Apple sites. pg_easy_replicate (GitHub Repo) pg_easy_replicate is a command-line orchestrator tool that makes setting up logical replication between two PostgreSQL databases simple. AI Is a Lot of Work (45 minute read) This article tells the story of the people that sort and tag the data that AI learns from. How "Exit Traps" Can Make Your Bash Scripts Way More Robust And Reliable (5 minute read) Commands or functions trapped in EXIT can ensure that bash scripts always perform necessary cleanup operations even when something unexpected goes wrong. Want more TLDR? We also write newsletters covering AI, crypto, and web dev! TLDR Talent is our exclusive community where we help world-class tech talent and get intros to companies of their choice, along with a number of exciting startups and tech companies curated by TLDR. We give you full control of the process, you can specify if you’re actively searching or passively interested only if something amazing comes along. Set your preferred compensation, seniority/title/role, specific companies (or types of companies) you’d like to work for and more. Click here to apply. 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