AI Edition - It's AI Time - 322 [03-03-2025]

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 322

DeepSeek releases revenue information:

DeepSeek released its inference and revenue numbers at the end of its open source week. The company offers many services for free - if it monetized every token, it would make $200m or so in yearly revenue with healthy margins.

Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model:

Inception, a Palo Alto startup, has developed a diffusion-based large language model, DLM, which significantly accelerates AI text generation compared to traditional LLMs. Founded by Stanford's Stefano Ermon, the company claims its models are faster, more cost-effective, and offer up to 10x improved performance. It has secured investment from Mayfield Fund and attracted several Fortune 100 customers, offering various deployment options and an API.

Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model:

Anthropic tested its Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI model by having it play Pokémon Red, showcasing its "extended thinking" capabilities. The model successfully battled three gym leaders, significantly outperforming its predecessor, Claude 3.0 Sonnet. While details on computing power and time required are unclear, the test highlighted games as a tool for AI benchmarking.

NotaGen sheet music generation:

By training an auto-regressive model to generate sheet music, this team has been able to make a novel text-to-music system that is often preferred by human raters.

Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI:

Perplexity has announced its new browser, Comet, which is aimed at competing with Google's Chrome. No details on its features are available yet. The company has invited users to sign up for beta access in a bid to gain early adopters. Perplexity's move indicates a growing trend of AI-specific applications challenging traditional app categories.

Warp launches AI-first terminal app for Windows:

Sam Altman-backed Warp is reimagining the command-line terminal after nearly 40 years unchanged.

uv and Ray in clusters:

Ray now has first-class support for automatic dependence installation based on Python package management uv.

Prime Intellect raises $15m:

Prime Intellect, a distributed computing company, has raised additional funds to continue pushing its distributed training scheme.

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