Xi Jinping’s Power Move: China Weaponizes Rare Earths Trump’s 10% tariffs on China triggered a swift and strategic response: Beijing is restricting rare earth exports—a direct hit on U.S. supply chains. China has major leverage here: 90% of global rare earth refining
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US-China AI Infrastructure Dominance and Geopolitical Implications
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Something to mull over this weekend. The world is still in a massive Dunning-Kruger moment—quibbling over whether AI is merely a productivity enhancer or fixating on Trump—while the U.S. and China further position themselves to dominate core AI infrastructure, as well as AI
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Accelerating Consumer Electronics With Predictive, Generative And Agentic AI
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Accelerating Consumer Electronics With Predictive, Generative And Agentic AI
#AI #AIio #AIInnovation #ML #DataScience #Futureofwork @HaroldSinnott @fogoros @iainljbrown @NandoDF @katecrawford @drhassanrashidi @YuHelenYu http://
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Developers Prefer LLMs Over Raw GPU Access for Performance
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"The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They want LLMs…. developers thinking about performance in terms of “tokens per second” aren’t counting milliseconds." — @mrkurt with a very clearheaded analysis of the gpu neocloud market. api calls are enough for most.
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DeepSeek-R1 671B Achieves 198 Tokens Per Second on SambaNova
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⚡️ We gave our friends @AiBlckbx early access to try how fast DeepSeek-R1 671B runs on SambaNova Cloud.
— SambaNova (@SambaNovaAI) 14 février 2025
🎥 Huge speeds we’re seeing (198 t/s ⚡️⚡️⚡️) with DeepSeek-R1 671B on our cloud — we finished the whole output before GPUs could even finish reasoning.#AIWe gave our friends @blackboxai early access to try how fast DeepSeek-R1 671B runs on SambaNova Cloud. Huge speeds we’re seeing (198 t/s ) with DeepSeek-R1 671B on our cloud — we finished the whole output before GPUs could even finish reasoning. #AI
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SambaNova Launches DeepSeek-R1 671B on Cloud Platform
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Happy Valentine's Day from the SambaNova team! If you want to dive deep and analyze your relationship this Valentine’s Day, check out the fastest DeepSeek-R1 671B running on SambaNova Cloud. #DeepSeekR1 #HappyValentinesDay #AI
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Untether AI Celebrates 7-Year Anniversary of Innovation
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Our love for innovation never skips a beat. 💜 To our incredible customers, partners, & team—thank you for pushing the boundaries of AI inference with us. Together, we're building a faster, more energy-efficient future. Here's to another year! #7YearAnniversary pic.twitter.com/vdbkDCrShs
— Untether AI (@UntetherAI) 14 février 2025Our love for innovation never skips a beat. 💜 To our incredible customers, partners, & team—thank you for pushing the boundaries of AI inference with us. Together, we're building a faster, more energy-efficient future. Here's to another year! #7YearAnniversary
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14.8 ft Anime-Style Transformer Robot Piloted by Person
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This 14.8 ft anime-style transformer robot can be piloted by a person
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 14 février 2025
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#Robotics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #MI #Tech #Technology
cc: @paula_piccard @miketamir @kirkdborne pic.twitter.com/sArHYd0NdqThis 14.8 ft anime-style transformer robot can be piloted by a person
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GPU Precision Evolution: From 32-bit to FP8 in Transformers
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Yes. Originally GPUs were designed for 32 bit precision, but in transformer contexts, you get away with even lower precision (16 bit is the standard usually). In recent months, people pushed that even further to FP8. One of the most recent architectures that successfully did FP8
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Major Tech Giants Race Into Humanoid Robotics Supply Chain
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So Nvidia, Tesla, Apple (rumor), Meta, Amazon (Figure investment + others), OpenAI are all known to be pursuing humanoid robots. Google / Alphabet had Boston Dynamics (sold it). May be a good time to understand and start investing in the humanoid robots supply chain…