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🏫 Former Tesla AI chief unveils first "AI-native" school
👩🔬 Mistral debuts two LLMs for code generation, math reasoning and scientific discovery
💰 GitHub rival GitLab explores sale
🍖 The UK will start feeding lab-grown meat to pets this year
🎮 Valve makes $6.5B in revenue from just 350 employees
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🏫 Former Tesla AI chief unveils first "AI-native" schoolLINK
Andrej Karpathy, the former AI head at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, launched Eureka Labs, a startup focused on using AI assistants in education.
Eureka Labs plans to develop AI teaching assistants to support human educators, aiming to enable "anyone to learn anything," according to Karpathy's announcements on social media.
The startup's initial product, an undergraduate-level AI course called LLM101n, will teach students to build their own AI, with details available on a GitHub repository suggesting a focus on creating AI storytellers.
👩🔬 Mistral debuts two LLMs for code generation, math reasoning and scientific discoveryLINK
Mistral, a French AI startup, has launched Codestral Mamba 7B, a faster and more efficient code-generating model based on the new Mamba architecture developed last year.
Codestral Mamba 7B, available under an open-source Apache 2.0 license, offers quick response times and supports up to 256,000 tokens, outperforming other open-source models in benchmarking tests.
Developers can access and deploy Codestral Mamba through Mistral’s la Plateforme API, GitHub, and HuggingFace, enhancing local coding project productivity.
💰 GitHub rival GitLab explores saleLINK
GitLab, supported by Google, is exploring a potential sale, but no deal is imminent or guaranteed, according to confidential sources. GitLab, with a widely-used platform for development teams and 30 million users, has its shares down 16% this year, lagging the S&P 500 Application Software index. The sale has drawn interest from peers like Datadog, but any deal is still weeks away and not guaranteed, with sources requesting anonymity due to the confidential nature of the matter.
🍖 The UK will start feeding lab-grown meat to pets this yearLINK
The UK approved the sale of lab-grown meat for pets, becoming the first European nation to do so, with London-based startup Meatly receiving the regulatory go-ahead.
Meatly plans to release its first commercially available lab-grown pet food product made from chicken cells this year, with the startup aiming to reduce costs and scale production over the next three years.
While lab-grown meat is already approved for human consumption in countries like Singapore and Israel, addressing production costs and environmental concerns remains a significant challenge for the broader industry.
🎮 Valve makes $6.5B in revenue from just 350 employeesLINK
Valve, a secretive company in the PC gaming industry, operates with about 350 employees, which is surprising given its significant role in gaming transactions.
The employee and payroll numbers were revealed through a leaked document in Wolfire's antitrust lawsuit, giving a glimpse into Valve's internal operations.
Graphs and statistics from the leaked data show how Valve has maintained its workforce size while continuing to be a major player in the PC gaming market over many years.
Other news you might like
Elon is turning Texas into Musk Country — and thinks others will follow his lead.LINK
Anthropic launches $100 million AI fund with Menlo Ventures, ramping up competition with OpenAI.LINK
Apple taps infamous Taboola as new ad seller for Apple News and Stocks.LINK
The UK will start feeding lab-grown meat to pets this year.LINK
Salesforce debuts Einstein Service Agent, a new AI Agent for customer self-service.LINK
Claude AI is now on Android where it could dethrone ChatGPT as the most secure AI app.LINK
Tesla factory manager tells workers to please, please stop stealing coffee mugs, report says.LINK
Latest research and tools
GitHub: a platform for version control and collaboration that lets users share and manage code, track and merge changes, and work together on software projects from anywhere in the world.LINK
Magic-cli: a command line tool that enhances command line efficiency by utilizing language learning models to generate command suggestions, perform semantic searches across shell history, and format prompts, inspired by similar innovations like Amazon Q and GitHub Copilot.LINK
Introduction to Bash Scripting: an open-source guide that teaches the basics of Bash scripting to automate daily tasks for SysOps, DevOps, and developers.LINK
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