Earlier I said "we need a Red Hat for AI" (
https://
infoworld.com/article/233716
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…), but what we really need is an AWS for AI (and, yes, I know AWS is working on this). There's *so* much "undifferentiated heavy lifting" needed to make AI work today. AWS (or Google/MS/etc) needs to do more here
BIG TECH
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AWS for AI: The Infrastructure Gap in Enterprise Deployment
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Boston Dynamics Spun Out of MIT in 1992: Timeline
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Boston Dynamics was officially spun out of MIT #otd in 1992.
— MIT CSAIL (@MIT_CSAIL) 4 janvier 2025
A timeline of the company's evolution: https://t.co/RutsdfFQXe pic.twitter.com/KMykuuYUelBoston Dynamics was officially spun out of MIT #otd in 1992. A timeline of the company's evolution: https://
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Perplexity Following Same Path as Google in AI
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Hey hey – I actually took it from the same tweet thread Xeo linked Thought it was amusing that pplx is on the exact same path as big G It’s worthwhile to assume good intent 🙂
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Europe’s tech crisis demands immediate action from entrepreneurs
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Depuis la diffusion de ce coup de gueule, je reçois des centaines de messages d’entrepreneurs ou de spécialistes de la tech qui pensent que c’est plié, que l’Europe ne se relèvera pas de son suicide technologique. À moins d’un électrochoc massif et immédiat. PS : continuer svp à… https://t.co/9BhIKktVwJ
— Rafik Smati (@RafikSmati) 4 janvier 2025Depuis la diffusion de ce coup de gueule, je reçois des centaines de messages d’entrepreneurs ou de spécialistes de la tech qui pensent que c’est plié, que l’Europe ne se relèvera pas de son suicide technologique. À moins d’un électrochoc massif et immédiat. PS : continuer svp à
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Perplexity advances challenge Google Search dominance
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Perplexity advances on its Google Search arc! What goes around comes around
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Apple’s iOS Text Summaries Feature Fails to Accurately Condense Messages
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Turned off iOS' new summaries "feature." They're always so opaque that I end up reading the texts to see what Apple tried to summarize. (Here, my friend thanked me for pics I took while skiing, and noted other skiers started after us but never caught up. They took no pics. )
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What If Other Tech CEOs Posted Like Elon Musk?
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I often wonder: What’d happen if another tech platform CEO/founder posted stuff like Elon? What if Zuckerberg did?
What if Sundar Pichai did?
What if Tim Cook did?
What if Evan Spiegel did?
What if Satya Nadella did?
What if Sam Altman did?
What if Linda Yaccarino did?
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AI Hackathons: Google Cloud MLB and Windows Snapdragon Opportunities
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#AI Hackathons hosted by @devpost … Google Cloud x MLB(TM) Hackathon – Building with Gemini Models PRIZES: $98,700 DEADLINE: Feb 4, 2025 Build the future of baseball using Google Cloud.
JOIN THE HACKATHON: https://
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Chinese AI Teams Dominate GitHub Trending Repositories in 2026
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4 out of the 6 top trending repos on GitHub are from Chinese AI teams today 2025 is gonna look quite different from 2024
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Qwen Model on SambaNova Cloud: 3X Faster LLM Inference
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Introducing another model in the Qwen series on SambaNova Cloud! This open-source test-time compute model from @alibaba_cloud enables LLMs to produce accurate responses in seconds, rather than minutes. Runs 3X faster than GPU providers