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China Closes AI Chip Gap Despite Lithography Lag Behind West
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I think many people still don't grasp what this means. Chris Miller analyzed in his book "Chip War" that China is about 10 years behind in lithography machine production. Meanwhile, Huawei chips are achieving roughly 80% of the performance of the NVIDIA H100. China is probably
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New 3rd Edition of “Machine Learning for Dummies” Announced
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“Democratic Socialists” are just the “New Luddites” party.
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Gemma 4 31B Beats Qwen 3 27B in Local LLM Gamedev Test
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/1 Gemma 4 31B just crushed Qwen 3.6 27B in a local LLM gamedev contest inside @atomic_chat_hq (prompt is below)
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) 30 avril 2026
Device: MacBook Pro M5 Max, 64GB RAM
Results:
Qwen 3.6 27B: 32 tokens/sec · 18m 04s · 33,946 tokens
Gemma 4 31B: 27 tokens/sec · 3m 51s · 6,209 tokens
So what is… pic.twitter.com/wqyWyjXX2u/1 Gemma 4 31B just crushed Qwen 3.6 27B in a local LLM gamedev contest inside @atomic_chat_hq (prompt is below) Device: MacBook Pro M5 Max, 64GB RAM Results:
Qwen 3.6 27B: 32 tokens/sec · 18m 04s · 33,946 tokens
Gemma 4 31B: 27 tokens/sec · 3m 51s · 6,209 tokens So what is -
Agentic Analytics for Data Prep to Insight on Unified Platforms
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How do you move from data prep to insight without relying on traditional BI tools?
— Databricks (@databricks) 30 avril 2026
In this session, @rgb_prithvi, @Alex_TheAnalyst, and Databricks experts walk through how agentic analytics supports the full workflow on a unified data platform, and how teams build end-to-end… pic.twitter.com/785TGyPruSHow do you move from data prep to insight without relying on traditional BI tools? In this session, @rgb_prithvi
, @Alex_TheAnalyst
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Mistral brags about worse AI benchmark performance
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Regular AI companies brag about how much better their model is on benchmarks. Only Mistral brags about how much worse its one is.
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HERMES: Training-Free AI System for Real-Time Video Stream Understanding
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How can we make AI understand live video streams in real-time without draining GPU memory? Researchers from Fudan University, Shanghai Innovation Institute, and the National University of Singapore introduce HERMES. This training-free system reimagines the model internal memory
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Critique of GDPval-AA AI Benchmarking and Artificial Analysis Transparency
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i started writing about it in september, see my essay called Peak Bubble.
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AI Performance Is Now a Data Movement Problem Not Compute
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Everyone is scaling compute. That’s not the bottleneck anymore. AI performance is now a data movement problem. Every token =
read → fetch → compute → repeat And that loop is inefficient on traditional GPUs (like NVIDIA Blackwell B200). More FLOPs won’t fix it. Dataflow -
GPU Rental Market Worsens: Availability and Interconnect Opacity
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The quoted tweet is about API endpoints, but the same thing applies to hardware you don’t control Renting GPUs is not what it was a year ago, availability is so much worse And even when you find capacity, you often have no real idea what the interconnect actually looks like