VillageMD and the Year the Pandemic Rewired Chicago VC
VillageMD's 2020 Walgreens megadeal, and a pandemic that moved venture capital to Zoom, reset the odds for Chicago startups and set up the 2021…
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VillageMD's 2020 Walgreens megadeal, and a pandemic that moved venture capital to Zoom, reset the odds for Chicago startups and set up the 2021…
While Snowflake marches toward its record IPO, OpenAI has released a language model called GPT-3, and it is changing the conversation about artificial intelligence…
A year ago I said a press release with five logos does not lay fiber. The first Open Fronthaul specification just landed at Barcelona,…
A research lab called OpenAI has announced a language model named GPT-2, and then done something unusual: it says the model is too dangerous…
Databricks has raised a 250 million dollar Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, and, most tellingly, Microsoft. The dollar figure is big,…
Tempus Labs became Chicago's standout unicorn in 2018, opening a historic run. How Eric Lefkofsky's precision-medicine company built on the Groupon and Grubhub era.
Eight researchers at Google have published a paper with a slightly cheeky title: “Attention Is All You Need.” It introduces a new kind of…
Google has just done something that could help set the trajectory of the AI era: it has taken TensorFlow, the internal software it uses…
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