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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

TechEmpower

If a user searches for "movies similar to Inception with a twist ending," the LLM can delve into its vast knowledge of movie themes, plots, and reviews, and generate a curated list of recommendations that might not be explicitly tagged in the platform's database. In other words, first, potential answer-containing documents are fetched.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

“Twenty years ago, if you started a brand, your first hire, outside of a designer, would have been a salesperson,” Murthy told TechCrunch. Today, when you start a brand, your first hire is probably someone to build out your Shopify site. That salesperson would have had relationships with all the different release valves for inventory.

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Selz currently offers three monthly pricing plans which allow you to create your own store using its platform, or attach Selz' smarts to an existing site. It also offers a $599 per month “Do It For Me” option which will see Selz' own team of developers build a bespoke site to your specifications. App required. ?.

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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

socalTECH

Do you have a small task (graphic design, page layout, UI) you wish you had someone do, in an affordable way? We're focused on the skilled labor part of that, knowledge-based tasks. Some of the more popular tasks there are for designers, UX, photographers, and videographers. Where'd you get the idea for the company?

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. And they do all this in the span of four intense months.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Like good mentors Paul, Jeff, Richard, Oded and David as well as Chris and Kris create an atmosphere in which the motivated founders can take advantage of the knowledge base to which they are exposed. And they do all this in the span of four intense months.

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Can you profit by serving early adapters?

Berkonomics

It did not hurt that Apple always seemed to trump the competition in design of the product and the product’s user interface too. We designed and produced special cards for the TI that would allow Apple Macintosh workstations to be used, with their handsome graphic user interface. Our test sites. My “way too early” story.