Hello Everyone, AI news is one thing, but I am going deep down the Semiconductor News rabbit hole. For context, Nvidia shares hit an all-time high as the chipmaker continues to ride a massive wave of demand for its artificial intelligence chips. It's now valued at $3.4
Hey Everyone, I've been mulling over the announcement of Sakana Labs, an offshoot of the famous LLM paper who have their startup based in Japan. Sakana AI, based in Tokyo, Japan, is taking inspiration from nature to build the next generation of AI and it's an
Hey Everyone, Everyone wants to be a world builder in the era of Generative AI. May I just say what the video games World Labs. I've been waiting for an AI startup that could impact the future of gaming at scale, and I might just have found it.
Hey Everyone, Aleph Alpha was my favorite LLM builder in Germany with high ethical standards. Unfortunately like I have been predicting, many of these smaller firms can no longer keep up. However it was never really that profitable - for instance, up until recently it sold large language models to
Hey Everyone, In the Summer of 2024, there's been a flurry of new robot prototype reveals, especially when it comes to "humanoids" that aim ultimately to be general purpose humanoid robots (GPHRs). 1X Technologies, originally founded as Halodi Robotics in 2014 by Bernt Øyvind Børnich, is
Hey Everyone, This is a stub (a mini article). There's been social mentions of GPT Next recently in early September, 2024. At the KDDI Summit, OpenAI Japan provided insights into the company's next generation of AI models. A new version dubbed "GPT Next" is
Hey Everyone, I'll try and be brief and summarize a few important things here: If Nvidia is having antitrust issues potentially with the DOJ, the EU and France, there might be wiggle room for another contender to appear. I'm not exactly feeling the vibes of Intel
Hey Everyone, To start off the trading on the stock market in September, 2024, we had a serious down day for Nvidia. According to a Bloomberg report released after US markets closed on Tuesday, the US Justice Department (otherwise known as the DOJ) sent subpoenas to Nvidia Corp. and other
Chinese AI startup MiniMax has unveiled Video-01, its first AI model capable of generating high-resolution videos from text prompts. This is an extremely well funded AI Gen AI startup out of China, see the video demo here. For a country starved of foreign investments I guess China is doing alright,
Hey Everyone, So there aren't many places for great robotics news, maybe here and here. A story that I think was really undercovered recently is how Amazon acquired Covariant. This was by far one of the most promising AI first robotics startups out of California that I had
Hey Everyone, August 31st, 2024, 9:00 AM. Apparently it's rather lucrative to state that your goal is AGI. Among all the coding AI automation startups, this one is the loudest on my radar. They were working on larger (I mean very large) context windows before Google made
Hey Everyone, What does it mean when OpenAI is showing off its latest tech to the Pentagon, before the general public? OpenAI has apparently showcased its latest AI breakthrough, codenamed “Strawberry,” to U.S. national security officials, according to a new report by The Information. This model forms the "
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Hey Everyone, Cerebras is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company that specializes in building computer systems for complex AI deep learning applications. Cerebras Systems launched on Tuesday a tool for AI developers that allows them to access the startup's outsized chips to run applications, offering what it says
Hey Everyone, Given the relative dominance of EV markers out of China, China certainly seems to have an edge in robotics as well. The World Robot Conference that began Wednesday in Beijing claimed it revealed 27 humanoids, a record. Unitree one of China's leaders in robotics, recently unveiled
Hey Everyone, Perplexity AI has announced plans to introduce advertising on its AI-powered search platform by the fourth quarter of 2024. But what does this actually mean? According to data from a16z, Perplexity has climbed in AI B2C app adoption from the number 7 ranking in March, all the way
Hey Everyone, The AI startup Anysphere, better known for their AI coding tool Cursor, has got a series A funding round amid a lot of praise. Cofounded in 2022 by four friends who met at MIT, Cursor announced on Thursday that it has raised $60 million in a Series A
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Hey Everyone, Google has a complicated relationship with Military tech historically. Most recently, nearly 200 workers inside Google DeepMind on May 16th, 2024, the company’s AI division, signed a letter calling on the tech giant to drop its contracts with military organizations earlier this year, according to Time. Google
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