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Inside the Creation of DBRX, the World’s Most Powerful Open Source AI Model
This past Monday, about a dozen engineers and executives at data science and AI company Databricks gathered in conference rooms…
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Perplexity’s Founder Was Inspired by Sundar Pichai. Now They’re Competing to Reinvent Search
Aravind Srinivas credits Google CEO Sundar Pichai for giving him the freedom to eat eggs. Srinivas remembers the moment seven…
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Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears
The amount of time Reddit reports that users spend with its service hasn’t significantly budged either. In September 2021, the…
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Y Combinator’s Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself
When Michael Seibel lost his position at the startup incubator Y Combinator, he didn’t find out in typical tech industry…
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Reddit’s IPO Filing Is Missing Something: Cofounder Alexis Ohanian
Advance, the owner of Condé, owns 30 percent of Reddit with other investors, board members, and employees holding the rest.…
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Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise
The past year has brought a reckoning in the tech job industry across the US, upending career trajectories for recent…
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Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
In a minivan with the rear seats ripped out, John is chasing one of his 250 electric scooters down a…
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The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contest
The index is a good predictor of whether a company will raise a round, says Konstantin Vinogradov, a general partner…
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Job Hunting Sucks. This Programmer Filled Out 250 Applications to Find Out Why
After he landed an interview, Sachdev spent 40 hours scouring job sites for tips, cramming his notebook full of hypothetical…
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Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare
Kari Groszewska, a senior at Vanderbilt University studying computer science and economics, says she attended the conference and arrived at…
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