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Just so we're clear: Buy dual RTX 4090s and 128 GB RAM = $5k Download DeepSeek R1 70b weights, run offline – unlimited use You can buy a 130 IQ human brain for the cost of a used Civic.
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Cost comparison: AI vs human brain
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AWS Azure Serverless Egress Control Public Preview Launch
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Egress control for serverless and model serving workloads is now in Public Preview on AWS and Azure. Centrally control outbound access from serverless workloads across multiple products and workspaces to minimize the risk of unauthorized or accidental data transfers outside
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AI Environmental Impact Beyond Hardware Efficiency and Emissions
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AI’s impact is shaped by market incentives, regulatory gaps, and social behaviors, not just hardware efficiency. Focusing only on direct emissions ignores system-wide feedback loops that drive AI’s expanding environmental footprint 📈
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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AI Efficiency Paradox: Lower Costs Drive Higher Environmental Costs
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AI follows a similar pattern: ✅ More efficient models → cheaper compute ✅ Cheaper compute → more AI ✅ More AI → more demand for compute, data centers, energy & emissions. Without including second-order effects, the AI industry risks a false sense of sustainability
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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DeepSeek and Jevons Paradox: Environmental Impacts of AI
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DeepSeek forces a rethink of the compute & energy costs of AI models. In a new paper with @SashaMTL @strubell, we look at the full environmental impacts of AI – both direct and indirect – and what Jevons Paradox means for AI and climate. A thread: 🧵 [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @katecrawford, 2025-01-29 18:21 UTC
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Scaling Reasoning Models: From Thousands to Millions of GPUs
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This is the interesting bit. As we move to the next phase of scaling reasoning models w RL, data and compute converge. Next breakthroughs require moving from 100’000’s of GPUs to millions of GPUs.
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DeepSeek R1 Sonar for search optimization
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DeepSeek R1 powered Sonar implementation (optimised for search use-cases)
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Grok 3 to support reasoning and UI exposure
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BREAKING 🚨: Grok 3 will support reasoning! It will be able to expose its "thinking" process to the UI as well 👀 https://t.co/ugfgzc2So3 pic.twitter.com/nkL0Jx8Djv
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 29 janvier 2025BREAKING : Grok 3 will support reasoning! It will be able to expose its "thinking" process to the UI as well
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SAS Viya Workbench: Free Cloud Coding Environment for Students
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Fast. Flexible. Free. SAS Viya Workbench for Learners is a cloud-based coding environment designed for students and educators. Available now! http://
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