This week we feature articles by Reggie Raye & K. Alexandria Bond, and Michael Blau.
Additional reading comes from Tom Krazit, Carl Franzen, Lukas Blecher, Guillem Cucurull, Thomas Scialom & Robert Stojnic, and Paul Baier, Jimmy Hexter, & John J. Sviokla.
News comes from Kobai & Databricks, Merkle, InfluxData, and Neo4j.
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Opinion / Analysis
Text-to-CAD: risks and opportunities
I haven’t seen much discussion of generative AI and 3D, where the output is a 3D CAD model rather than an image, but of course this is already a thing. Reggie Raye & K. Alexandria Bond provide a readable and useful overview of some tools to use, as well as advice on dealing with the unique design and engineering applicable. (12 min)
https://thegradient.pub/text-to-cad/
Secrets, and how to prove them: A magician’s guide to zero-knowledge proofs
If you’ve read multiple explanations of what a zero-knowledge proof is and you’re not convinced you’ve quite got the hang of it, or you are confident you have, but are looking for a non-technical explanation, you know, for a friend, you’ll appreciate this short demo and explanation by magician by Michael Blau — though he keeps his secret. He also works with crypto investors. (3 min)
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/a-magicians-guide-to-zero-knowledge-proofs/
More Reading
- WASM update… WebAssembly: Some assembly still required via Runtime
- Nougat: Neural optical understanding for academic documents. Noble quest (very technical) via Meta AI
- McKinsey unveils its own generative AI tool for employees via VentureBeat
- Where should Your company start with GenAI? via HBR
Content technology news
Merkle launches global composable commerce accelerator for Salesforce Commerce
Developed to work with Contentful and Magnolia content management systems, the accelerator extends Salesforce Commerce Cloud and streamlines integration.
https://www.merkle.com/en/merkle-now/press-releases/2023/merkle-launches-global-composable-commerce-accelerator-for-sales.html
InfluxData Announces InfluxDB Clustered
The rebuilt database engine is optimized for real-time analytics with higher performance, unlimited cardinality, and SQL support.
https://www.influxdata.com
Kobai announces partnership with Databricks
Kobai’s Saturn platform is embedded directly in the data layer, allowing organizations to query data without moving it from the lakehouse.
https://www.kobai.io/articles/strategic-partnership-between-databricks-and-kobai
Neo4j adds vector search within its native graph database
Enables customers to achieve richer insights from semantic search and generative AI applications, and serve as long-term memory.
https://neo4j.com/press-releases/neo4j-vector-search/
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