From now on, Space-X, Tesla, Neuralink, Starlink, xAI, and X will only hire kids out of high school. PhDs need not apply. Everyone knows that most of physics, math, engineering, and computer science is useless, and the part that's useful can be picked up on the job.
BIG TECH
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Google TPU Evolution: SeaStar to JellyFish Hardware Journey
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Amin Vahdat and I gave a brief presentation about the origin and development of Google's TPUs over ~a decade at this week's Google TGIF meeting. Presenter costumes were encouraged, so I went as a SeaStar (codename for TPUv1 ) & Amin went as a JellyFish (codename for TPUv2).
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Chinese Researchers Develop Military AI Model Using Meta’s Llama
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Chinese researchers develop #AI model for military use on back of Meta's Llama https://
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ificial-intelligence/chinese-researchers-develop-ai-model-military-use-back-metas-llama-2024-11-01/
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Copilot Vision Deployment Accelerated Beyond Initial Timeline
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Copilot vision rollout much sooner than expected
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Sam Altman: Compute Shortage Slowing OpenAI Product Development
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says lack of compute capacity is delaying the company’s products
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Meta’s AI Organization Makes Significant Contributions Despite VR Challenges
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While I had a lot of challenges in the dysfunctional VR org, Meta is still a great company, and the AI org makes huge contributions to the world!
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OpenAI’s Strategic Competition Against Google and Sam Altman
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OpenAI's big attack on Google: quo vadis Sam Altman? It's no secret that OpenAI has chosen Google as its biggest opponent; OpenAI employees are quite open about it. And it is also regularly recognized indirectly by the fact that every major release from Google is covered up by a
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Meta Releases MobileLLM: Depth-First Approach for Smaller Models
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@Meta has released MobileLLM models with 125M, 350M, 600M, and 1B checkpoints! Key Highlights: Depth over Width: Challenging scaling norms (Kaplan et al., 2020), Meta emphasizes depth to improve concept capture and model performance in smaller LLMs. Embedding
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X’s algorithm pushes political content to new users following only ESPN
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What did @cwarzel get when he created a new X account, said he liked tech, culture, gaming & sports, and followed only ESPN? Posts by Musk, Trump and MAGA-influencers—along with recommendations to stock up on food, water and guns. theatlantic.com/technology/a…
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Dell Intel NextGen AI PCs Transform Workplace Partnership
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Exciting News from CXO Spice! In the latest episode, I sat down with Isaac Pinon from @Dell to explore how NextGen AI PCs are transforming the workplace. Discover the powerful partnership between Dell and @intel
, the groundbreaking capabilities of AI PCs powered by Intel®