The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-time scaling techniques to increase the accuracy of …
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, a week of Seattle-area startup news shows how the AI era is reshaping the regional tech scene. Q1 venture numbers reveal bigger checks going to fewer companies, with Seattle …
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson. (Campaign Photo) Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson addressed concerns about a potential wave of new data centers in the city and raised the possibility of a moratorium, citing economic and environmental issues. …
University of Washington physicist David Hertzog checks out the 50-foot-wide superconducting magnetic ring for the Muon g-2 experiment at the time of its startup at Fermilab in 2018. (Photo Courtesy of David Hertzog) University of …
Microsoft’s Redmond campus. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Feroze Motafram is an operations consultant based in Sammamish, Wash., and founder of Avestan LLC. This piece is adapted from a LinkedIn post. Someone asked me recently …
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Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. In Mar, Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) released its annual summary of job creation efforts that took place in the year before, …
Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket rises from its Florida pad, sending an AST SpaceMobile satellite into space. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture used a previously flown New Glenn rocket booster …
A billboard for Bellevue, Wash., startup Summation, visible from SR 520 in Bellevue. (Photo courtesy of Summation) A Bellevue, Wash.-based startup that came out of stealth last fall is really trying to get noticed now, …
Power lines, storm clouds, and shoes over Seattle. (Kurt Schlosser Photo) After a vague report that some companies were seeking to build “large” data centers in Seattle, Mayor Katie Wilson is exploring a moratorium on …
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