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A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
Within hours he’d thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admission — and by Sunday, 36,000 “founding patrons” had pledged nearly $23 million, crashing his servers in the process.
The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to “stop hiring humans.”
The portfolio he has assembled since 2019 is dotted with technologies that have become more widely interesting to VCs over the last year:
DoorDash on Monday added new AI-powered tools that let merchants speed up onboarding, edit photos to make dishes look better, and create new websites from existing content.
A sensor that can simultaneously capture depth and image data has long been a “holy grail,” Ouster CEO Angus Pacala told TechCrunch.
Barocal might have discovered a cheap, nonpolluting material that could dethrone today’s refrigeration technology.
“The Magician’s Nephew” looks like a big next step in Netflix’s thawing relationship with movie theaters.
It is not that European startups never get attention — Lovable and Mistral AI are proof of that. But there are many more that insiders are tracking.
