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Major Connectivity Disruption Comparable to iPhone Revolution
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This is not a small thing. It might be as big of a disruption to the MNO and ISP incumbents in connectivity terms as the first iPhone was to Nokia and other phone manufacturers.
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Small Language Models Gaining Momentum in Generative AI
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Generative AI and the big buzz about small language models https://
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ai-and-the-big-buzz-about-small-language-models/
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Generative AI for Banking Risk and Compliance Management
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How generative AI can help banks manage risk and compliance https://
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Generation Time, Compute Requirements, and Commercial Viability
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The usual questions: how long did this take to generate, how many tries were requires, are the compute requirements actually reasonable for commercial use?
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ML Advances 3D Capture Quality Despite Performance Loading Challenges
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ML can finally clean up 3D captures to be actually good now instead of just novel — 3D photos will be a significant value to almost everyone that likes 2D photos. Taking 100x as long to load as a normal photo in social media feeds will be a significant headwind, though.
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Criticism of Grace Hopper’s 1:1 CPU-GPU Ratio Architecture
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I actually don’t like the path they are taking — I would like to see them enable ever larger GPU to CPU ratios, with one CPU commanding 256 NVLINK GPUs, but instead they are going 1:1 with Grace Hopper, which is a step back from todays baseline.
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Smartphone Supercycle: AI-Driven Growth or Incremental Progress?
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Is a smartphone "supercycle" on its way? Manufacturers certainly hope so, and project strong growth driven by AI. Analysts aren't convinced. Shipments hit their lowest in a decade in 2023. And the next 5 years we're likely to see only incremental growth.
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eToro Plans Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest App Launch
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Retail trading firm eToro says it wants to bring its app to the Apple Vision Pro and Meta Quest. “We are planning to look at how we think about eToro with natural language, with voice, but actually also in the realm of AR VR, during 2024,” @yoniassia said
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Google plans advanced LLM release on Android next year
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A top exec at Google's Pixel smartphone unit told me the company plans to release a more advanced LLM on Android next year. (Didn't expect this to drop the week Google was facing backlash over Gemini putting out ahistorical images, but there we go).