[August 24-25 Daily News Collection] News: Karpathy praised the AI ​​code artifact Cursor, and said that he could not go back to the unassisted coding three years ago, but was accused of “selling goods”; three programmers worked hard for three days to rewrite the inference stack, Grok-2 mini directly doubled the speed, and Musk personally sent a congratulatory message

Karpathy praised the AI ​​code artifact Cursor, and said that he could not go back to the unassisted coding three years ago, but was accused of “selling goods”

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AI researcher Karpathy recently shared his experience of using Cursor AI code editor with Claude Sonnet 3.5 for programming, emphasizing AI Technology has greatly improved coding efficiency and brought about significant changes in programming workflows. He pointed out that he has become accustomed to interacting with AI through natural language, generating code snippets, and working through code inspections and repair suggestions provided by AI. Karpathy believes that this “semi-coding” method with AI assistance as the core allows him to obtain a large amount of differential code at one time, greatly shortening the coding time. Although he is still adapting to all the functions of Cursor, he can no longer imagine returning to coding without AI assistance. He also recommends that novices watch more tutorial videos when using Cursor to better utilize this tool. However, this view has also sparked controversy about whether it is a product promotion. Karpathy defended that he has no commercial connection with Cursor or Sonnet, but only for the purpose of sharing personal experience.

Three programmers worked hard for three days to rewrite the inference stack, Grok-2 mini directly doubled the speed, Musk personally sent a congratulatory message

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The Grok-2 chatbot was rewritten with SGLang through three days of hard work by three developers, and the performance was successfully improved. The Grok-2 main model scored 1293 points on the Lmsys Chatbot Arena ranking, becoming the world’s second strongest AI model, and Grok-2 mini also rose to fifth place. This breakthrough was praised by Musk. The efficiency of SGLang has significantly improved the speed and processing power of the Grok-2 series, especially when running Llama 3.1 405B, the performance of SGLang Runtime v0.2 surpassed vLLM and TensorRT-LLM.

Revealed that graphics expert Tong Xin joined the AGI startup team, and the former live broadcast boss of Station B also joined

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Graphics expert Tong Xin and former live broadcast director of Station B Wang Yuyang joined AGI startup Anuttacon, which aims to use AI technology to innovate interactive entertainment and virtual world experience. Tong Xin spent 25 years at Microsoft Research Asia, published more than 150 papers, and made significant contributions in the field of graphics. Anuttacon has offices in Singapore and San Francisco, dedicated to exploring the boundaries of AGI and creating unprecedented gaming and entertainment experiences. Wang Yuyang brought rich experience in e-sports and live broadcasting, injecting new impetus into the development of Anuttacon. Although the team is small, the members have excellent academic backgrounds, including graduates from well-known institutions such as Tsinghua University and Anhui University. Anuttacon’s talent portfolio and desire for global expansion demonstrate its potential and influence in the field of AI.

Andrew Ng exits Landing AI after announcing new fund

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Andrew Ng will exit Landing AI, which he founded in 2017, after announcing the creation of a new fund, with former COO Dan Maloney taking over as CEO. Ng has deep roots in artificial intelligence, having worked at Google Brain, Coursera, and Baidu. His AI Fund recently announced that it had raised $120 million, which may be the reason why Ng chose to focus on investments for the time being.

The hottest AI deals in Europe this year

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According to Crunchbase data, despite the challenges of startups raising venture capital funds in the second quarter of 2024, investment in the field of AI has continued to stabilize and even increased. Europe’s investment vitality in the field of AI cannot be ignored. At least 14 AI companies have received more than $100 million in investment this year. These companies are involved in multiple sub-fields of artificial intelligence. For example, Wayve, an autonomous driving technology company, has received $1.05 billion in financing, becoming the largest single round of financing in the UK to date; Mistral AI focuses on building large language models in Paris and has raised more than $1 billion; Helsing focuses on providing AI services in the field of defense technology and has raised $484 million; Poolside focuses on software development tools and has received $400 million in financing; DeepL focuses on text translation and writing tools and has received $320 million in financing; Colors & Variations (H for short) has not yet launched a product, but has raised $220 million and is expected to focus on AI agent applications; Flo Health, a women’s health tracking application, has received $200 million in funding; Pigment has received $145 million in financing in the field of enterprise software with its AI capabilities.