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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

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Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. ” So what, exactly, do developers use Pydantic for?

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Bobidi launches to reward developers for testing companies’ AI models

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The idea is to let developers test AI systems and biases — that is, the edge cases where the systems perform poorly — to reduce the time needed for validation, Choi explained in an email interview. ” To test models, the Bobidi “community” of developers builds a validation dataset for a given system.

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5 investors discuss the future of RPA after UiPath’s IPO

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The company that appeared to come out of nowhere in 2017 eventually had a final private valuation of $35 billion. These are mostly data entry and data validation jobs. It all seemed to culminate with UiPath’s IPO last month. It then had the audacity to match that at its IPO.