TikTok owner is quietly doing an ‘Apple’ — ByteDance invests in Chinese memory pioneer, months after a similar move in a GPU vendor, as it plans for an Apple Vision Pro VR rival

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance has reportedly quietly invested in Xinyuan Semiconductors, a Chinese memory chip manufacturer.  A report from Pandaily, a tech media site based in Beijing, the move reportedly positions ByteDance as the third-largest shareholder in the chip maker, holding an indirect stake of 9.5%. A ByteDance spokesperson confirmed this previously undisclosed investment to … Read more

Check out this month’s Samsung Health and PENUP challenges

Last updated: March 8th, 2024 at 10:19 UTC+01:00 Samsung kicked off the month of March with new challenges for Samsung Health and PENUP users. As usual, the new Samsung Health challenge is a month-long, and PENUP artists can participate in a two-week contest before the theme changes in mid-March. Here are the current live challenges. … Read more

How Perplexity AI was built in just six months

At the Ray Summit 2023, a gathering of software engineers, machine learning practitioners, data scientists, developers, MLOps professionals, and architects, Aravind Srinivas, the founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, shared the journey of building the first of its kind LLM-powered answer engine in just six months with less than $4 million. The summit, known for … Read more