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Santa Cruz Venture Fund

Announced at the Santa Cruz New Tech on April 5, 2023, this fund is investing in the top early stage, high growth startups founded in Santa Cruz and nearby coastal communities with an emphasis on Planetary Health.

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Steve Blank: AI Opens Pandora’s Box

Steve Blank weighs in on the dangers of opening Pandora’s AI box. Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately kill us all. This year we’ve invented one more.

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AI News: Generative vs Applied AI

AI is a hot topic of discussion these days, with the potential to inspire some and frighten others. To begin, it's important to understand the distinction between Generative AI and Applied AI, as they represent two distinct categories of artificial intelligence.

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Housing Update at SCWorks New Tech

Rents and mortgages at all time highs. Our monthly New Tech event will kick off with presentations about housing progress and the challenges ahead for Santa Cruz County.

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Here For You

Here For You is a centralized platform that allows community members to show their care and support for one another in meaningful ways during life’s hardest moments.

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Purcell Open House at New HQ

Purcell (formerly SmartBins) has opened its headquarters and design studio in Santa Cruz. To celebrate, you are invited to their Open House on April 15, 2023.

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Nyckel Has A Better AI Model for Developers

Build AI into your product without hiring a Machine Learning team, and without costly infrastructure. Train your model in five minutes, integrate it in ten, and let Nyckel’s intuitive UI and API do all the heavy lifting.

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UCSC Introduces SpikeGPT

To address the high cost and energy dependency of language generators like ChatGPT, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jason Eshraghian is using spiking neural networks (SNNs) to power language models.

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UCSC Leans In on AI

In his recent post, Alexander L. Wolf / Dean of UCSC Baskin School of Engineering establishes a new directive at UCSC.

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