Tech Meme

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: MaintainX, which helps manufacturing, hospitality, and other companies manage operations and maintenance, raised $50M at a $1B valuation, up from $191M in 2021  —  – Bain Capital Ventures leads $50 million investment in firm  — McDonald’s, Shell, Duracell are among MaintainX’s clients Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta’s 28 AI characters are now live across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram in the US, and Meta is experimenting with “long-term memory” for some characters  —  Earlier this year, Meta introduced a set of AI characters, including those based on real-life celebs including … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Meta launches Imagine with Meta, a standalone text-to-image generator powered by its Emu model that generates four images per prompt, free for users in the US  —  Not to be outdone by Google’s Gemini launch, Meta’s rolling out a new, standalone generative AI experience on the web … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Meta’s virtual assistant Meta AI gets support for Reels, a new feature called “reimagine” that lets users generate AI images in group chats, and more  —  Alongside other AI updates announced today, Meta AI, the company’s generative AI experience, is gaining new capabilities starting today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Casey Newton / Platformer: Q&A with Google CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on Gemini, digital agents, changing search, the pace of AI development, coding, and more  —  CEO Sundar Pichai and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis talk to Platformer about the promise — and product roadmap — of their answer to GPT-4 Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Pierce / The Verge: Google updates Bard to use its Gemini Pro model, which the company says represents Bard’s “biggest and best upgrade yet” and can match and even exceed ChatGPT  —  While OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a worldwide phenomenon and one of the fastest-growing consumer products ever … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Thomas Germain / Gizmodo: Google unveils Gemini, an AI model with Ultra, Pro, and Nano tiers, and plans a paid chatbot version in 2024; Google says Gemini Ultra beats GPT-4 on most tests  —  Magnets, How Do They Work in Keychron’s Newest Mechanical Keyboard?  —  47 minutes ago  —  Magnesium Supplements Could Protect Your Liver From Acetaminophen Lees verder op Tech Meme

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon plans to cut its merchant fees on clothing items under $15 to 5% and $15 to $20 items to 10% in January 2024, both down from 17%, to compete with Shein  —  Amazon.com Inc. is sharply cutting fees for merchants selling clothing priced below $20, a sign it’s hunkering down for a price war with Chinese fast-fashion upstart Shein. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aaron Klotz / Tom’s Hardware: Intel publishes and then removes “Core Truths”, a document calling AMD products “snake oil” for using the older Zen 2 architecture in new Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs  —  Look in the mirror Intel  —  Intel recently published a new playbook titled “Core Truths” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Globes Online: AI data startup VAST Data, which unifies storage, databases, and more, raised a $118M Series E led by Fidelity at a $9B valuation, up from $3.7B in May 2021  —  VAST Data’s platform unifies storage, database, and containerized compute engine services into a single, scalable software platform. Lees verder op Tech Meme