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OpenAI Startup Fund
PREMISE OpenAI is investing in startups with big ideas about AI. In conjunction with Microsoft that has invested more than $1 Billion in OpenAI, there is $100 million set aside to enable startups to develop projects using the toolkits within OpenAI. Several projects are already underway: Descript, a video editor – $50 million lead https://www.descript.com/blog/article/all-new-descript-backed-by-openai-startup-fund…
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Proto Factory
REFERENCE: The Scaling Imperative for Industry 4.0 Next generation factories require out-of-the box thinking – moving from linearized assembly lines to multi-dimensional robotic and building constructs. Here is a timely article by David Ramirez on what it entails to create microfactories of the future.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thinking-small-achieving-big-power-microfactories-david-ramirez-hdupc/ Industry 4.0 aka the Fourth Industrial Revolution, refers to the integration…
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Balanced Supply Chain
“Where there is production and consumption, there is supply chain”- Brian Laung Aoaeh, REFASHIOND PROLOGUE Supply chain management is the handling of the entire production flow of a good or service — starting from the raw components all the way to delivering the final product to the consumer. Today, supply chains are being disrupted by…
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Hyperstate and the Video Metaverse
PROLOGUE In prior articles, we had focused on innovation and automation as key factors to bring about disruption and change in the workplace, and our lives. But to truly move from robotic cyber-physical smart manufacturing that is the hallmark of Industry 4.0 to the more human-centric solutions of Industry and Services 5.0, we need to…