i do have more faith character ai will thrive than say pi, because there's too much overlap with what msft wants to do. maybe character ai will roll frontier OSS models and turn into the ultimate waifu app – google doesn't need that baggage in house imo!
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TPUs Drive Google’s Machine Learning Scale and Cloud Capabilities
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It's really great to see the impact that TPUs have had and continue to have on Google's ability to do machine learning training and inference at scale, and to provide that same capability to @googlecloud customers via Cloud TPUs. Here's a bit of backstory on how they came to be.
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Buffett Invests $100B GPU Cluster to Solve ASI
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Buffett has decided to build a 100b$ GPU cluster to solve ASI.
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Sundar Could Have Saved $2.5bn by Not Alienating Noam Shazeer
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Hey Sundar, you could have saved $2.5bn by not alienating Noam Shazeer in the first place.
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Google Gemini 1.5 Pro Surpasses GPT-4o Claude Sonnet
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Google ha tenido una semana muy movidita con muchos anuncios importantes. Pero de todos quizá el más sorprendente es el de su nuevo modelo Gemini 1.5 Pro experimental, que se ha puesto por delante de GPT-4o y Claude Sonnet 3.5. Os lo cuento en DotCSV Lab (Link abajo)
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Criminal Hackers Exploit GenAI Credentials in Underground Markets
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Criminal Hackers Add GenAI Credentials to Underground Markets https://
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Google welcomes back Noam Shazeer as AI researcher
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Absolutely delighted to welcome my longtime Google colleague @NoamShazeer back to Google!
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Search Challenges: Google’s Advantage Over OpenAI in AI
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Search is still a hard problem. Google has a lot more advantage here than OpenAI. Google still has business model and bureaucracy challenges.
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Google Pays Character AI Licensing Fee, Character Switches to Llama
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“Google has agreed to pay a licensing fee to chatbot maker @character_ai for its models” The same article: “Meanwhile, Character will switch to open-source models such as Meta Platforms’ Llama 3.1 to power its products, rather than its in-house models”
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Intel Cuts Fifteen Percent Workforce Amid Manufacturing Turnaround Doubts
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Wall Street’s Best Ideas: Losing confidence in Intel Intel is slashing its workforce by over fifteen percent, in an effort to drastically cut costs. Few on the Street believe the company is actually on course for its long-promised manufacturing turnaround. Will the board