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This Week in Startups · 2025-08-18 · 38 min · 7,493 words

Decart makes AI faster, Lume teaches lamps to fold laundry | E2166

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Mirage is the only real-time video model in existence today. Even the big tech still don't have it, except for Google. Google does have this, but but even the other big tech, as far as we know, don't have this. And it's challenging to build because you have to build a completely different model on the algorithmic side. You're training actually a different model.

It's lots of algorithmic mathematical challenges. And at the same time, you have to write a bunch of assembly code for GPUs. Like all this was written like in in PTX, it was assembly for GPUs to actually get it to execute like this efficiently. This week in Startups is brought to you by Stripe Startups. Stripe Startups offers early stage venture-backed startups access to Stripe fee credits, expert insights, and a focused community of builders.

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