Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 79 stories, +67 vs last week

Funding & deals: 79 stories in seven days, +67 on the week before.

LabsWhy Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering Google Developers Blog

ValleyAI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B TechCrunch AI

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanUS fintech Stripe eyes AI shopping in Japan with launch of Meta's Muse Age of automatic agentic commerce nears, but some consumers balk at idea

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanJapan's TDK, Taiyo Yuden ally on next-generation AI components Capital alliance on the table as partnership takes aim at China rivals

September 30

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTech supply chain shrugs off AI slowdown calls as demand booms Infrastructure providers say soaring investment is pushing production to the max

September 30

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubdebpalash/VoiceStudio

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubNVIDIA/OpenShell

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubvectorize-io/hindsight

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/financial-services

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubvercel/next.js

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubHKUDS/CLI-Anything

September 30

The DecoderOpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer OpenAI and Synopsys are building GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model for chip design. It's meant to operate Synopsys' EDA tools like a seasoned engineer and optimize designs on its own.

September 30

Google Developers BlogLabsAccelerating Spatio-Temporal Attention for Video Diffusion on TPUs To address the quadratic latency bottleneck of self-attention in high-resolution video diffusion models, developers implemented Sparse VideoGen (SVG) to dynamically route attention heads to highly…

September 30

Google Developers BlogLabsReproducing Olmo 3 7B Pre-training in MaxText: case study of large scale training on TPUs The MaxText team successfully reproduced Ai2’s Olmo 3 7B language model from scratch on Google Cloud TPUs using JAX/XLA, precisely matching the original PyTorch-on-GPU reference across pre-training…

September 30

The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo