Weekly Startup Digest #16
Jul 22, 2024
Fail fast, succeed faster - Andrew Wilkinson
#STORY
In what will go down in history as the largest IT failure world has ever seen, a botched software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike crashed 8.5 million Microsoft Windows computers globally.
#AI
OpenAI unveiled GPT-4o mini, their most cost effective model offering improved efficiency and lower latency at a cost 60% less than GPT-3.5 Turbo.
Mistral AI introduced Mistral NeMo, a state-of-the-art language model with 7B parameters and a 128K context window.
Codestral Mamba is the latest code generation model by Mistral with fast responses due to it's Mamba model architecture.
#WATCHING
OpenAI teased us with new set of impressive Sora demos videos.
PyCon US, the largest Python conference released their 2024 videos to youtube
#CODE
Xata offers a generous PostgreSQL free tier with 15GB of data storage.
Typst is a markup-based typesetting system that can generate beautiful print quality PDF documents.
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