Facebook parent company Meta today announced the upcoming expansion of Meta Horizon OS, a virtual and augmented reality operating system that will be available to third-party hardware manufacturers that want to design their own headsets. Right now, Meta sells the Quest line of headsets, but the company wants to provide the software for third-party VR … Read more
Michael Stonebraker has developed several influential database management systems over the years, including Ingres, PostgreSQL, and VoltDB. Matei Zaharia is the creator of Apache Spark and co-founder and CTO of Databricks. Working with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, the pair have created a revolutionary prototype operating system called DBOS … Read more
The advent of large language models (LLMs) has undeniably revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. However, these models are not without their limitations. One of the most significant challenges they face is the constraint of limited context windows. This limitation hampers their utility in tasks such as extended conversations and document analysis. To address this … Read more