All of the modern NN work that is accomplishing things is with dense matrix ops — 1 mat mul forward and 2 back. There are plenty of things Cray vector computers weren’t good at, but dense matmuls was their strong point, and no PC could touch them for nearly two decades. The XMP
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CoreWeave Launches NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Access for Customers
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We’re excited to be among the very first to get access to @CoreWeave
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Hugging Face Acquires Pollen Robotics for Open Humanoid Development
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Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, a French startup building open-source humanoids
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 15 avril 2025
Pollen is already selling Reachy 2, an open and VR-compatible humanoid for research, education, and embodied AI
A big move from HF in open robotics!pic.twitter.com/PUyCqLvyABHugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, a French startup building open-source humanoids Pollen is already selling Reachy 2, an open and VR-compatible humanoid for research, education, and embodied AI A big move from HF in open robotics!
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GPU Form Factor Advantages Over Vector Architectures Today
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The GPU form factor is better today with current gate densities and memory architectures, but that wasn’t an option back in the day. A stronger case for vector architectures back then might even have held up progress on our current architectures!
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Cray Vector Supercomputers Alternative Design for Deep Learning
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There is an alternate reality where Cray took their vector supercomputers, ditched FP64 calculations, and went with one FP32 pipe and a BF16 tensor core pipe. The same instruction set, memory architecture, and vector registers would have made a sweet deep learning machine, in
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Metis Compute Board: RK3588 SBC with AI Accelerator Pre-orders
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Metis Compute Board pre-orders are open SBC w/ RK3588 + Metis AIPU Dedicated AI accelerator via PCIe Full BSP + Voyager SDK stack 16GB CPU RAM + 4GB AI RAM HDMI, USB, LAN, GPIO, SATA, etc. Dev-ready for real #edgeAI. 15% off now: https://
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Hugging Face Acquires Pollen Robotics for Open-Source Robots
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Super happy to announce that we are acquiring @pollenrobotics to bring open-source robots to the world! Since @RemiCadene joined us from Tesla, we’ve become the most widely used software platform for open robotics thanks to @LeRobotHF and the Hugging Face Hub. Now, we’re
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DeepSeek Open-Sources AI Inference Engine for Multi-Platform Deployment
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"Our ultimate aim is to foster a synchronized ecosystem where cutting-edge AI capabilities can be seamlessly implemented across diverse hardware platforms upon official model releases."
Link: https://
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Mason’s Mechanical Compliance Approach to Robot Chess Piece Grasping
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Another brilliant post on robot manipulation from my PhD advisor Matt “Yoda” Mason @mastertoadster : an ode to mechanical compliance and grasping a chess piece. As the Red Queen said, “I could have done it in a much more complicated way”…. https://
staging2.mtmason.com/the-unstable-q
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China Rare Earth Export Ban Threatens Global Tech Supply Chain
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We are all fucked. Thank you, POTUS, for giving China an excuse to shut down the export of rare earth minerals and magnets, furthering your efforts to drive us all back to the Stone Age.