Exa Monitors V2 introduces alerts across 130B+ web pages, 211M businesses, 1.3B products, and 1B people, using entity recognition on the whole web. It is priced at $2 per 1,000 runs, claimed to be 7× cheaper than prior monitors.
Key points
Index size: 130B+ web pages, 211M businesses, 1.3B products, 1B people
Cost: $2 per 1k runs, 7× cheaper than previous monitors
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India 496 million lifted out of poverty 2011-2023
India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023, according to the World Bank. The gains remain uneven.
Key points
World Bank data: 496 million people lifted out of poverty 2011-2023
Observation: gains remain uneven
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Starcloud-1 anniversary, H100 in space, 3 launches
Starcloud-1 marks one year in orbit and runs the only NVIDIA H100 in space, enabling training and inference on orbit. The team shows unseen launch footage and announces three more launches within the next year.
Key points
Launch: Starcloud-1 launched exactly a year ago.
Compute: Operates with the only NVIDIA H100 in space.
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Workers IO announced, runs millions of simulated scenarios for verification
Workers IO announced, runs millions of simulated production scenarios on entire system to verify handling of faults. Simulations run inside a deterministic hypervisor that injects network delays, disk errors, clock skew, and process failures.
Key points
Runs millions of simulated production scenarios on your entire system, including dependencies.
Deterministic hypervisor injects faults like network delays, disk errors, clock skew, and process failures.
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Particle API model hits pareto frontier, beats Terra-6.1 and Haiku 5.5
Particle API model reached the pareto frontier for data analytics tasks, outperforming Terra-6.1 and Haiku 5.5. It is the first new player to do so in years. Full results are linked in the post.
Key points
Model landed on the pareto frontier for data analytics tasks.
Model beat out Terra-6.1 and Haiku 5.5.
First new player to reach the frontier in years.
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Mochatrade first invite batch rolls out, ₹500 credit
Mochatrade is releasing its first batch of invites, giving early access to trade US markets from India in rupees. Invitees receive ₹500 in trading credits, subject to terms and conditions. Access will be opened in batches over the coming days.
Key points
First batch of invites rolling out now
Trade US markets from India, in rupees
₹500 in trading credits, T&Cs apply
Sources
- Original post
- app.mochatrade.com - Linked in the post
Lime cameras detect sidewalk riding, 1/3 fleet now, 100% next year
Lime is rolling out new cameras that detect sidewalk riding, currently on one-third of its fleet and pledged to reach full deployment next year. The tool aims to reduce dangerous scooter use on sidewalks.
Key points
Deployment: cameras are on 1/3 of Lime’s fleet now.
Commitment: Lime plans 100% fleet coverage by next year.
Sources
Y Combinator hardware startups 25% and deadline today
Y Combinator reports that 25% of its startups now build hardware and the next application deadline is today. The announcement highlights YC’s interest in funding more hardware, supply chains, machines, robots, data centers, and aerospace.
Key points
25% of Y Combinator startups build hardware.
The next application deadline is today.
