Storied investors Accel and Prosus have launched a new investment partnership to back Indian startups from day zero, targeting founders building large-scale solutions with the potential to serve the masses in the South Asian nation. Announced on Monday, the collaboration marks the first time Prosus is investing at the formation stage. Both firms will co-invest…
Large language model serving often wastes GPU memory because engines pre-reserve large static KV cache regions per model, even when requests are bursty or idle. Meet ‘kvcached‘, a library to enable virtualized, elastic KV cache for LLM serving on shared GPUs. kvcached has been developed by a research from Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab (University of…
Large language models (LLMs) offer several parameters that let you fine-tune their behavior and control how they generate responses. If a model isn’t producing the desired output, the issue often lies in how these parameters are configured. In this tutorial, we’ll explore some of the most commonly used ones — max_completion_tokens, temperature, top_p, presence_penalty, and…
The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West. From October 27–29, 10,000 founders, investors, and innovators will flood San Francisco for three days of building, connecting, and deal-making. We’re just days away from live demos of never-before-seen tech and high-stakes pitches as…
Apple Maps users could start seeing ads in the app as soon as next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Similar to Google Maps and other mapping apps, Apple’s plan is to allow restaurants and other businesses with brick-and-mortar locations to pay to promote themselves in search results, Gurman says. While…
The United States and China are ready to move forward on a TikTok deal, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Bessent had already said last month that the two countries reached a “framework” on a deal during discussions in Madrid, and President Donald Trump subsequently signed an executive order to facilitate the transaction. In a…
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The countdown is almost over — tomorrow’s the day! In less than 24 hours, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes over Moscone West. From October 27–29, 10,000 founders, investors, and innovators will flood San Francisco for three days of building, connecting, and deal-making. We’re just days away from live demos of never-before-seen tech and high-stakes pitches as…
In this tutorial, we explore advanced applications of Stable-Baselines3 in reinforcement learning. We design a fully functional, custom trading environment, integrate multiple algorithms such as PPO and A2C, and develop our own training callbacks for performance tracking. As we progress, we train, evaluate, and visualize agent performance to compare algorithmic efficiency, learning curves, and decision…
AI companies use model specifications to define target behaviors during training and evaluation. Do current specs state the intended behaviors with enough precision, and do frontier models exhibit distinct behavioral profiles under the same spec? A team of researchers from Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab and Constellation present a systematic method that stress tests model specs…
