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Lil Snack raises $3.1M for snackable games built by devs with AI tools

Lil Snack has raised $3.1 million for snackable games on a platform that entices players to come back every day. That’s a pretty hefty funding amount for a company that until recently had just two people: cofounders Eric Berman and Travis Chen. Fortunately for Lil Snack, the company has already gotten a lot of traction during its six-month run through A16z Games Speedrun, an accelerator for…
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Cloudflare makes it simple to deploy AI apps with Hugging Face, launches Workers AI to public

Cloudflare is now letting more developers bring their AI applications from Hugging Face onto its platform. In addition, the company has made its serverless GPU-powered inference, known as Workers AI, generally available. The Cloudflare-Hugging Face integration was announced nearly seven months ago. It makes it easy for models to be deployed onto Workers AI. With one click, developers can…
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The risks and rewards of generative AI in software development

As a 20-year veteran of writing code and as a CEO of a company that serves software developers, I had a reflexively skeptical reaction to early predictions that generative AI would eventually make most software development skills obsolete. While I’m still somewhat skeptical, my experience playing with gen AI in my daily development work has prompted me to open my aperture to what I think is…
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Microsoft launches new Azure AI tools to cut out LLM safety and reliability risks

As the demand for generative AI continues to grow, concerns about its safe and reliable deployment have become more prominent than ever. Enterprises want to ensure that the large language model (LLM) applications being developed for internal or external use deliver outputs of the highest quality without veering into unknown territories. Recognizing these concerns, Microsoft today announced the…
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