Points of View

AI Will Revolutionize Healthcare. The Transformation Has Already Begun.

Healthcare is perhaps the most important sector in the U.S. economy. It is the largest: close to $4 trillion per year is spent on healthcare in the United States. It employs more people than any other industry, accounting for 11% of all American jobs. Nearly one quarter of all U.S. government spending is on healthcare.
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GPT-3 Is Amazing—And Overhyped

The Internet is buzzing about GPT-3, OpenAI's newest AI language model.

GPT-3 is the most powerful language model ever built. This is due more than anything to its size: the model has a whopping 175 billion parameters. To put that figure into perspective, its predecessor model GPT-2—which was considered state-of-the-art and shockingly massive when it was released last year—had 1.5 billion parameters.

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Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared.

Last month during ESPN’s hit documentary series The Last Dance, State Farm debuted a TV commercial that has become one of the most widely discussed ads in recent memory. It appeared to show footage from 1998 of an ESPN analyst making shockingly accurate predictions about the year 2020.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Driving A Silicon Renaissance

The semiconductor is the foundational technology of the digital age. It gave Silicon Valley its name. It sits at the heart of the computing revolution that has transformed every facet of society over the past half-century.
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A Massive Opportunity Exists To Build ‘Picks And Shovels’ For Machine Learning

Many multi-billion-dollar companies have been built by providing tools to make software development easier and more productive. Venture capitalists like to refer to businesses like these as “pick and shovel” opportunities, a reference to Mark Twain's famous line: “When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.”
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Deep Learning Has Limits. But Its Commercial Impact Has Just Begun.

There has been increased hand-wringing across the AI community in recent months about the limitations of deep learning.
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News & Press

WALL STREET JOURNAL
Digital-Health Startup Eko to Expand With $65 Million Venture Financing
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TECH CRUNCH
Scopely raises $340 million at a $3.3 billion valuation as gaming grabs investors’ interest
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FRESHLY
Nestle USA Acquires Freshly, A Pioneer in Healthy Prepared Meals
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SCOPELY
Scopely welcomes Genjoy, now a Scopely Studio!
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QUMULO
Qumulo Named a Third-Time Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage
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CISION PR NEWSWIRE
Freshly Inc. Expands Operations to the West Coast with New Los Angeles Facility
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CLEARBANC
Welcoming Curt Sigfstead and Bruce Sewell to the Clearbanc Team
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CLEARBANC
London’s calling and we answered: Clearbanc launches in the UK to invest £500M in British Startups and roll out inventory funding
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BUSINESS WIRE
ZeroFOX Acquires Cyveillance, Strengthening Global Leadership in Digital Risk Protection
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CISION PR NEWSWIRE
Katharine Weymouth and Deborah Bial join Xometry's Board of Directors
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BUSINESS WIRE
Turbonomic Earns a 2020 Tech Cares Award from TrustRadius
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CHAIN STORE AGE
ThredUp rebrand recognizes the evolution of secondhand
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THREDUP
Rent the Runway and thredUP collab to extend the life of designer clothing with rental retirees
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LinkedIn
Clearbanc named to LinkedIn Top Startups 2020: The 10 Canadian companies on the rise
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BUSINESS WIRE
Domino Data Lab Named a Leader in Notebook-Based Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning Evaluation by Global Research Firm
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HCP WIRE
Qumulo Appoints Elissa Fink to Board of Directors
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TECH CRUNCH
Xometry raises $75M Series E to expand custom manufacturing marketplace
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BETAKIT
CLEARBANC, TOUCHBISTRO AMONG 7 CANADIAN STARTUPS IN CB INSIGHTS FINTECH 250
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