'Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.' https://
fortinet.com/corporate/abou
t-us/newsroom/press-releases/2024/fortinet-to-acquire-lacework
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Fortinet acquires Lacework in major cybersecurity deal
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Worldcoin Sam Altman project shares new announcement
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Al mismo tiempo, desde la cuenta de Worldcoin, proyecto vinculado a Sam Altman, acaban de twittear esto
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Apple enters AI market with possible OpenAI partnership announcement
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¡HOY ES EL EVENTO DE APPLE! Y entre los numerosos rumores sobre la entrada de Apple al juego de la IA se escucha una posible alianza comercial con OpenAI! Estaré atento de las novedades, aunque creo que no se podrá streamear desde Youtube. ¿Quizá Twitch?
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GPU Supply Distribution Among Major AI Labs
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5/ there is another factor—which is that the $100B is spread between multiple labs. the largest labs (Google, OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, etc.) may only have 10-20% of the total GPU supply from NVDA (sidenote: Google is the hardest to track because they use TPUs as well as GPUs)
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GPU spending scale needed for hundred billion dollar model training
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6/ so we won't see what would happen if you spent $100B of GPUs on a model for a while because of how spread out the GPU distributions are. we'd likely need to see $500B of aggregate GPU spend to have an individual model trained on $100B of GPUs (wow!)
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Compute vs Data: Two Schools of Thought on AI Progress
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2/ there are 2 schools of thought: 1) compute is the only real bottleneck to AI progress. the more we spend, the closer we get to AGI 2) we are hitting a data wall which will slow progress regardless of how much compute we have
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100B GPU Investment: Will Next-Gen AI Models Justify NVIDIA Spending?
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1/ one of the biggest questions in AI today is: since GPT-4 was trained in fall 2022, we've collectively spent ~$100B on NVIDIA GPUs will the next generation of AI models' capabilities live up to that aggregate investment level? NVIDIA qtrly datacenter rev, by @Thomas_Woodside
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Nate Silver Confirms Significant Nvidia Holdings Betting on AI
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Nate Silver says 'I have a fair amount of Nvidia, so, I guess, yes,' when asked if he is long AI at the Manifest conference
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Y Combinator startups struggle securing funding from VC investors
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techcrunch.com/2024/06/07/y-c
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YC Seed Funding Trends: Ownership Targets Impact on Founders
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There was a thread about a trend in YC companies raising only $1.5-2M on ~$15M. Made me realize that ownership targets *can be* harmful. (*if* the trend continues where the best founders can command ~10% dilution at seed) Lots of big *IF*s here