Delighted to see that Ricardo Baeza-Yates (
@PolarBearby
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates Wins ACM Luiz Barroso Award
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Congratulations to Kevin and His Proud Advisor
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Nice! Congrats to Kevin (and the proud advisor)!
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Matei Zaharia Wins ACM Prize in Computing
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Congratulations to @matei_zaharia on winning this year's ACM Prize in Computing! This is very well-deserved!
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Gemini analyzes billboard advertising industries with AI
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I asked Gemini: "Can you analyze all the billboards listed on https://
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Gemma 4 Models Receive Strong Reception from Users
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Great to see the reception for the very capable Gemma 4 models!
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Hedged Requests Reduce P99.99 DRAM Read Latency
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Hedged requests (apparently inspired by the Tail at Scale paper by myself and Luiz Barroso) applied within a single machine to replicating data across DRAM channels and issuing reads to all channels, using the one that comes back first. ~5-15X reduction in p99.99 read latency.
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Benchmark Results for Models and Gemma 3 Comparison
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Benchmark results for the various models as well as Gemma 3 comparison:
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Google Releases Gemma 4 Open Foundation Models with Advanced Reasoning
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Today we're releasing Gemma 4, our new family of open foundation models, built on the same research and technology as our Gemini 3 series. These models set a new standard for open intelligence, offering SOTA reasoning capabilities from edge-scale (2B and 4B w/ vision/audio) up to a 26B parameter MoE model and a 31B dense model. By releasing Gemma 4 under the Apache 2.0 license, we hope to enable more innovation across the research and developer communities. Our earlier Gemma 3 models were downloaded 400M times and over 100,000 variants of those models have been published, so we're excited to see what the community will do with the even better Gemma 4 models! Learn more at blog.google/innovation-and-a… and goo.gle/gemma-4-apache-2 Great work by everyone involved! #Gemma4 #AI #OpenSource #ML
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Jeff Dean discusses computer architecture and AI hardware with Bill Dally at GTC
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The video of my conversation with Bill Dally at GTC last week is up. I always enjoy talking to Bill, and we had a wide ranging discussion about computer architecture, model training, specialized inference hardware, custom interconnects, and more! piped.video/g8BuAtM3fp4?si=QMTb…
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Anthropic Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Pentagon Designation
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This is a devastating ruling for the government, finding Anthropic likely to prevail on essentially all of its theories for why the government’s actions were unlawful and unconstitutional. One of the things she mentions is the huge range of amici briefs supporting Anthropic (by the way, 0 supported USG)—so thanks to everyone here who signed on to FAI’s brief, or to one of the many many others. These things do matter. More importantly, you were on the right side of history. On a personal note: some friends and allies of mine on the right have been angry at me for my own words and actions in all this. Anyone who thinks I spoke out for personal gain or trivial reasons against an administration I served in is crazy. It was a hugely costly decision for me. But Judge Lin’s ruling shows why I did it: this is a staggeringly illegal act by the government. That is why I am particularly honored to have been (implicitly) quoted in the ruling for calling this what it was when Secretary Hegseth initially made his announcement: an attempted act of corporate murder. The case continues, but Anthropic has scored a very large win here. The real victors, however, are all red-blooded Americans who are, as the founders would have said, “jealous of their liberties.” Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) BREAKING: Anthropic has been GRANTED a preliminary injunction re: Pentagon 'supply chain risk' designation by Judge Rita Lin in California but is allowing a stay for one week storage.courtlistener.com/re… — https://nitter.net/Hadas_Gold/status/2037306177319587934#m