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| Hey Insiders, Thanks for reading the Inside Dev newsletter! Today, we cover: - A Wall Street Journal report on Microsoft struggling to make profits from GitHub Copilot;
- Google providing a detailed account of the adoption of Rust in Android 14;
- Retool announcing the general availability of Workflows, and more!
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| 1 | | Per a recent Wall Street Journal analysis, Microsoft is struggling to make profits from GitHub's AI-powered code completion tool, Copilot. The article cited the cost associated with running the service as the primary reason leading to a loss. More: - Sources told WSJ that Microsoft is losing, on average, $20 a month per user, while heavier users are causing a loss of up to $80 each month.
- Microsoft charges $10 per month for GitHub's Copilot service.
- Microsoft leverages tens of thousands of Nvidia A100s and H100s, priced at around $30,000 per piece, to train and run its LLMs.
- Wall Street Journal expects profitability to increase once computing costs come down.
- According to the State of AI 2023 Report, AI hardware is strongly consolidated towards NVIDIA, and the company controls nearly 95% of the market for graphics processors used for machine learning.
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| 2 | | Andrew Walbran from the Android Rust Team provided a detailed account of the adoption of the new Rust pVM firm that was released in Android 14. The decision to move native code in Android from C++ to Rust is motivated by the desire for improved safety and productivity and to reduce the risk of security vulnerabilities. More: - To support the transition, Google has contributed to the Rust community by using and contributing to existing crates and publishing new ones.
- Walbran acknowledged that there are concerns regarding binary size when using Rust but noted that careful optimization and build practices can yield results comparable to C.
- Despite its architectural support and binary size challenges, Google considers Rust to be a significant improvement over C and C++ in terms of safety and productivity.
- Further, the team behind Trusty is working on adding support for Trusted Applications written in Rust.
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| 3 | | Low-code platform Retool announced the general availability of Workflows, its visual automation tool. Workflows empowers developers to compose APIs and database queries using JavaScript and Python to automate work. More: - To enhance developer experience, Retool has added building blocks and deeper integrations with other Retool products to support more complex, production-grade task orchestration.
- Workflows allows calling a workflow from another to build complex processes and examining past runs, logs, data, and historical code overlays to identify and address bugs.
- Workflows is built on top of Temporal, an open-source programming model that provides a reliable execution engine.
- Retool claims developer teams from Rippling, Stripe, and Taco Bell have used Workflows since its beta announcement last November.
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| 4 | | Gradient, an API platform for AI developers, raised a $10M seed round led by Wing VC. The investment round saw participation from Mango Capital, Tokyo Black, The New Normal Fund, Secure Octane, and Global Founders Capital. More: - Gradient offers open-source pre-trained neural networks for AI applications, which developers must set up and manage the infrastructure for running these models.
- Its features include full model ownership, rapid LLM creation, the ability to build on Llama 2 models and domain expert models for finance, healthcare, and law, and SOC2 and HIPAA compliance.
- The startup claims training one of its LLMs on a custom dataset requires just a few simple lines of code.
- The Burlingame-based startup intends to use the funds to develop its enterprise-focused development platform.
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| 5 | | New Tools and Updates: - Google released Chrome 119 beta with four new CSS features: new pseudo classes, CSS Relative Color Syntax, CSS clip-path geometry-box values, and CSS clip-path xywh() and rect() values.
- Updates from Microsoft:
- Microsoft announced TypeScript 5.3 beta with updates to the import attributes proposal, switch (true) narrowing, checks for super Property Accesses on instance fields, and more.
- The C# Dev Kit, a Visual Studio Code extension for improved C# development experience on Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now generally available.
- In the October 2023 release of Python in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft announced it is deprecating support for Python 3.7.
- Azul unveiled Code Inventory, a new feature of Azul Vulnerability Detection that simplifies identifying dead and unused code for developers and DevOps teams.
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 | Analyst | | Sudarshan lives in Toronto, Canada, and is an engineering graduate. He is passionate about business, tech, entrepreneurship, and politics. FUN FACT: Sudarshan worked for the election campaign teams of two heads of state in India. When he is not busy with work, he enjoys hiking, playing cricket, and cooking. | | This newsletter was edited by Aaron Crutchfield | |
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