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
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Elon Musk’s Management of Scientists and AI Research Ethics
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Until they actually work for him Also, not true for scientists: Elon keeps them gagged, tells them the stuff they are supposed to work on "will be solved next year", and claims some scientists should be jailed