a forest entrance hides a chip manufacturing plant with a trail sign that reads “Chips” –ar 5:3 –style raw
This week’s category cover theme is a sign in a forest. Each category image prompt is a derivative of the formula “an [category themed object] in a forest with a trail sign that reads “[category name]”. Using a theme each week takes the cover creation time down to about 20 minutes, rather than several hours.
“We’ve added 6,096 H100s to our fleet in Together Cloud. Leading AI companies like @pika_labs , @cognition_labs and @LiquidAI_ train on Together Cloud. We have optimized the infrastructure and software for large scale training and inference. Visit
Scale’s Series F: Expanding the Data Foundry for AI
Hugging Face commits $10 million in free shared GPUs – The Verge
Experimental Moondream WebGPU – a Hugging Face Space by Xenova
The techniques powering OctoStack’s 10x performance boost | OctoAI
“1/ Today, @Scale_AI is announcing $1B of financing at a $13.8B valuation. The round was led by @Accel along with our existing investors. @Scale_AI has never been better positioned to accelerate the abundance of frontier data and pave the road for AGI. 🧵
“3/ AI is built from three fundamental pillars: data, compute, and algorithms. Scale supplies the data pillar that advances AI by fueling its entire development lifecycle. We supply data to power nearly every leading AI model on the market today.” / X
“6/ With today’s funding, we’re moving into the next phase of that journey – accelerating the abundance of frontier data that will pave our road to AGI.” / X
Apple
“The built-in GPU on an M3 MacBook Pro is fast. I’m testing it by multiplying two 10,000 x 10,000 matrices using PyTorch. 3.72 ms when running on metal. 14.4 ms on the CPU (4 times slower.) I get similar results using TensorFlow and JAX. I love this computer.
Introducing Trillium, sixth-generation TPUs | Google Cloud Blog
NVIDIA
“The success of AI is being reflected in @nvidia ‘s story. – Market cap has increased more than six-fold to $2.3tn, overtaking Google & Amazon to become the third-most valuable US-listed company. – Revenue soared 262% in the past quarter – Market cap is more than total market cap
“Nvidia Earnings Just Announced: Revenue: $26.0B, +18% last Q, +262% last year Margins: 75.5% Stock split: 10:1 God’s Chosen Company.
“cant believe nvidia beat earnings six quarters in a row no one could have predicted this” / X
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang full keynote at GTC 2024 – YouTube
Nvidia will now make new AI chips every year – The Verge
Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell AI Superchips could cost up to $70,000 — fully-equipped server racks reportedly range up to $3,000,000 or more | Tom’s Hardware
Nvidia’s Sales Triple, Signaling AI Boom’s Staying Power – WSJ
Dell Technologies Expands Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA to Turbocharge AI Adoption
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This week’s executive overview and top links are here:
AI News #34: Week Ending 05/24/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 47 Links
The post you just read is an deep dive extension of my weekly newsletter, This Week In AI, an executive summary of the top things to know in AI. Each week, I create an accessible overview for laypeople to feel confident they are conversant with the week’s AI developments. I include a curated list of must-click links of the week, to offer everyone a hands-on opportunity to explore the most intriguing updates in artificial intelligence across various categories, including robotics, imagery, video, AR/VR, science, ethics, and more. Beyond the overview, I post these topic-based deeper dives (below). If you haven’t read this week’s overview, I recommend starting there.
- Agents/Copilots
- Amazon
- Apple
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- AI Audio
- Business and Enterprise AI
- Chips and Hardware
- Consumer Products
- Education
- Ethics/Legal Security
- Images/Photos
- International AI News
- Locally Run AI Models
- Mobile
- Meta
- Microsoft
- OpenAI
- Open Source
- Podcasts/YouTube
- Publishing and News
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) News
- Robots and Embodiment
- Science and Medicine
- Video
- Vision/Multimodality
- X/Twitter/Grok
- Tech and Development
Credits/Sources
Most of these weekly links come from just a few prolific oversharing sources. Please follow them, as they work hard to find the news each week and they make it a lot easier for me to compile.
- Robert Scoble: https://x.com/Scobleizer
- Ethan Mollick: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emollick/
- Alan Thompson: https://lifearchitect.ai/
- Theoretically Media: https://www.youtube.com/@TheoreticallyMedia
- The Rundown: https://www.therundown.ai/
- Bilawal Sidhu: https://twitter.com/bilawalsidhu/
- TLDR: https://tldr.tech/ai
- Jeremiah Owyang: https://twitter.com/jowyang
- Nick St. Pierre: https://twitter.com/nickfloats
- Dr. Jim Fan: https://twitter.com/DrJimFan
- All About AI: https://www.youtube.com/@AllAboutAI
- Marshall Kirkpatrick: https://aitimetoimpact.com/
- AI News (Smol Talk): https://buttondown.email/ainews/archive/
For previous issues, please visit the archives!
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