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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

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Populating them can be hard work, especially when the content needs to be just right. It means wasted advertising spend and lost goodwill. On a different project, we’d just used a Large Language Model (LLM) - in this case OpenAI’s GPT - to provide users with pre-filled text boxes, with content based on choices they’d previously made.

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Gravity Acquired By AOL For $83M

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Santa Monica-based Gravity , the real-time, personalization software developer led by Amit Kapur, has been acquired by AOL , in a deal worth $83M, plus $7.7M According to AOL, it will use Gravity''s technology to create more engaging, relevant, and valuable experiences for its consumers, advertisers and publisher partners.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. Tags: socaltech advertising sponsor. Email us at info@socaltech.com. Technology.

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Thanks to socalTECH's Sponsors!

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Thanks to all of the sponsors and advertisers, who allow us to keep you updated on Southern California's high tech news and companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. Advertisers. They include: Sponsors. Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Less known--a healthy domain name registration business.

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Five Startups Revolutionizing Music, In Southern California

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All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. Chromatik has developed web and iPad applications which let musicians upload, record, annotate, and share their sheet music; record a performance; give feedback to other musicians; and much more.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

socalTECH

I have always been in engineering, and was a software developer for some time, and also Director of Engineering. Tags: interview advertising media networking social referral business small facebook startup entrepreneur favrav. Taher Scherzay: I spent 20 years working for the industry, working for Lucent Technologies.

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