AI Edition - It's AI Time - 171 [03-10-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 171

OpenAI's latest funding

OpenAI has raised $6.6B in new funding at a $157B post-money valuation to continue scaling AI. Investors include Microsoft and Nvidia.

Google adds a multi-functional quick insert key and new AI features to Chromebook Plus

Google has introduced new Chromebook models from Samsung and Lenovo featuring AI-powered tools. Key updates include a "Help me read" tool for summarizing PDFs and web content and live translation for video calls. Enhanced AI features are also coming to existing Chromebooks, such as AI writing tools and a built-in speech-to-text recorder.

Brain-like Computers Tackle the Extreme Edge

BrainChip has announced the Akida Pico, a milliWatt-level neuromorphic chip designed for AI inference in power-constrained devices like wearables. The chip mimics brain activity to minimize energy use, targeting real-time processing needs in small user devices. Akida Pico joins similar edge-oriented neuromorphic chips from companies like Innatera and SynSense.

GPU Droplets on DigitalOcean

Powerful enough for the AI serious, simple enough for the AI curious. Try GPU Droplets: NVIDIA H100-powered virtual machines that let you spin up virtualized GPUs on-demand, and spin them down at will. With DigitalOcean, there's minimal setup and you can jump right into training and deploying models.

The Four Short Term Winners of AI

The global AI arms race is dominated by Big Tech firms, chipmakers like NVIDIA, intellectual property lawyers, and The Big 4 consulting firms.

ByteDance will reportedly use Huawei chips to train a new AI model

ByteDance plans to train a new AI model using Huawei's Ascend 910B chips.

Location: Padi Pudhu Nagar Main Rd & 12th St, Padi Pudur Nagar, Anna Nagar West, Anna Nagar West Extension, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600050, India

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 231 [02-12-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 231   Elon Musk Seeks to Block OpenAI's For-Profit Conversion Again: Elon Musk's legal team has filed a motion to prevent OpenAI from transitioning to a for-profit model citing alleged antitrust violations and financial risks. The motion claims CEO Sam Altman's actions could leave the company unable to pay damages if Musk wins his lawsuit. Perplexity mulls getting into hardware: Perplexity's CEO plans to develop a "simple, under $50" AI device for voice-to-voice interactions. This aligns with a broader trend of AI startups exploring hardware to enable new interactions, although historical challenges in AI hardware highlight risks. Perplexity, with substantial funding, aims to avoid pitfalls faced by others like Humane's Ai Pin. Inflection AI CEO says it's done trying to make next-generation AI models: Inflection AI shifted its focus from developing cutting-edge AI models to providing AI tools for enterprise customers,...
Read more

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 16 [30-04-2024]

  OpenAI Introduces “Memory” Feature For ChatGPT Plus Users OpenAI has launched a new "Memory" feature for ChatGPT Plus users, allowing the AI to retain information across conversations, which can be managed via settings. Binding Public Sector AI Diffusion The OMB's new AI executive order policy aimed at the public sector could severely impede AI innovation due to stringent safety provisions and bureaucratic hurdles. Implemented amidst shrinking IT budgets, the regulations may not only slow AI deployment but also potentially halt projects crucial for modernizing government services. Critics worry that these constraints, coupled with funding cuts, could prevent agencies from keeping pace with technological advances in fields like healthcare. Bizarre AI Camera Turns Images Into Sonnets and Haiku Poetry Camera is an open-source passion project that generates poetic descriptions of scenes based on visual input received via its lens. Equipped with a Raspberry Pi device to capt...
Read more

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 140 [02-09-2024]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 140 Workers at Google DeepMind Push Company to Drop Military Contracts Nearly 200 Google DeepMind employees signed a letter urging Google to terminate military contracts, claiming a violation of the company's own AI ethics principles. DeepMind technology has been bundled into Google Cloud and sold to militaries, sparking internal conflict with AI staff who value ethical standards. Google's response demonstrated an adherence to AI Principles, but workers remain unsatisfied, seeking stronger governance against military use of their AI. Apple's robotics work aims to solve user's first-world problems Apple may be expanding into robotics, potentially introducing devices that move, such as an iPad mounted on a robotic arm. Headed by VP of Technology Kevin Lynch, Apple's robotics efforts are progressing with the help of experts from firms like Israel's Technion, and propose to include AI interfaces beyond Siri. While still conceptual, Ap...
Read more