e2e renamed the company to e2e and announced an $8M seed round, reporting 1.5M+ npm downloads and 12k GitHub stars in a month. The announcement also includes a new brand identity.
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Rename: company renamed to e2e
Downloads: 1.5M+ npm downloads in a month
Stars: over 12k GitHub stars in a month
Funding: $8M seed round
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Open October: 10 new open LLM architecture releases
Open October lists ten open LLM architecture releases in October, including Kolibri-1 (78B) with GQA and SWA. The post enumerates each model, its size, and key attention modules.
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Kolibri-1 (78B): classic Grouped Query Attention and Sliding Window Attention.
Mistral Large 4 (1T): combines MLA with sparse attention.
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Qwen Image 2.1 textured an entire street in Blender
Qwen Image 2.1 was used to texture an entire street in Blender, then rendered in cyberpunk, anime, and papercraft styles. The work is linked on GitHub with a guide.
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Qwen Image 2.1 applied to texture a full street model in Blender
Resulting renders include cyberpunk, anime, and papercraft versions
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- Original post
- reddit.com - Linked in the post
- github.com - Linked in the post
- github.com - Linked in the post
Apple Create immersive media experiences for spatial computing November 11
Apple will host "Create immersive media experiences for spatial computing" in Cupertino on November 11. The author will attend and invites creators and builders in immersive media to meet for coffee.
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Date: November 11
Location: Apple in Cupertino
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Siemens offers three services for robotics companies: digital genesis
Siemens outlines three offerings for robotics firms moving from pilot to fleet: digital genesis to design and validate robots, autonomous production to scale manufacturing, and the coexistence loop to assess integration with existing lines. These services draw on Siemens’ experience in automotive mass production.
Key points
Digital genesis: design, engineer and virtually validate a new robot before it exists.
Autonomous production: build robots at the scale Siemens helped automotive build cars.
Coexistence loop: evaluate digitally how a new humanoid fits alongside people and existing automation before site arrival.
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- Original post
- ziegler.substack.com - Linked in the post