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🤖 Amazon announces new AI models
👽 Amazon is building the world's largest AI supercomputer
⚛️ Meta is joining Big Tech's AI rush to nuclear power
🔒 FBI recommends using encrypted messaging applications
👀 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants an 'active role' in Trump's tech policies
🎥 Google releases Veo, its first AI model for video creation
🎁 + 6 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Amazon announces new AI modelsLINK
At the re:Invent conference, Amazon announced Nova, a new family of multimodal generative AI models, marking its strong entry into the foundation AI model arena.
The Nova lineup consists of six models, including four focused on text tasks and two aimed at creative content generation, with accessibility through Amazon Bedrock for seamless integration.
Designed for adaptability and efficiency, Nova models are customizable to meet diverse business purposes, balancing high performance with cost-effectiveness to appeal to various enterprises.
👽 Amazon is building the world's largest AI supercomputerLINK
Amazon introduced Project Rainier, an Ultracluster AI supercomputer using its Trainium chips, aiming to offer an alternative to NVIDIA's GPUs by lowering AI training costs and improving efficiency.
The Ultracluster will be utilized by Anthropic, an AI startup that has received $8 billion from Amazon, potentially becoming one of the world's largest AI supercomputers by 2025.
Amazon is maintaining a balanced approach, continuing its partnership with NVIDIA through Project Ceiba while also advancing its own technologies, like the forthcoming Trainium3 chips expected in 2025.
⚛️ Meta is joining Big Tech's AI rush to nuclear powerLINK
Meta Platforms is seeking nuclear energy partners in the U.S. to support its AI initiatives, aiming for one to four gigawatts of new nuclear generation capacity by the early 2030s.
The company is increasing its AI investments, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg highlighting plans to boost spending, as evidenced by increased capital expenditure estimates of up to $40 billion for the 2024 fiscal year.
Data centers, crucial for AI operations, have high energy demands, prompting tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google to explore small modular reactors for sustainable and rapid energy solutions.
🔒 FBI recommends using encrypted messaging applicationsLINK
The FBI is urging Americans to use encrypted messaging apps to safeguard their communications from cyber threats, particularly those tied to foreign actors like the Chinese hackers involved in Salt Typhoon.
Despite previous resistance to encryption, FBI and CISA officials now recommend apps like Signal to shield communications, emphasizing encryption's effectiveness against hacking attempts.
The Salt Typhoon intrusion, which breached U.S. telecom equipment, failed to intercept encrypted data, highlighting the importance of encrypted messaging against both foreign and domestic threats.
👀 Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants an 'active role' in Trump's tech policiesLINK
Mark Zuckerberg wants to actively shape tech policy under President-elect Donald Trump's administration, according to Meta's top policy executive, Nick Clegg.
Zuckerberg recently met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago to discuss the incoming administration, signaling Meta's efforts to improve its relationship with Trump's team.
Clegg admitted that Meta sometimes overly moderated pandemic-related content, with Zuckerberg emphasizing the need for ongoing focus on precision and accuracy in content enforcement.
🎥 Google releases Veo, its first AI model for video creationLINK
Google's new generative AI video model, Veo, is now accessible to businesses via Google's Vertex AI platform, having launched in a private preview ahead of OpenAI's Sora.
Veo can create 1080p resolution videos from text or image prompts, employing various visual and cinematic styles, while examples show it's challenging to distinguish them from non-AI videos.
Built-in safeguards and DeepMind’s SynthID watermarking are integrated into Veo to prevent harmful content and protect against copyright issues, amid increasing use of AI-generated media in advertising.
Other news you might like
OpenAI’s 12 days of ‘shipmas’ include Sora and new reasoning model.LINK
Apple planning to use Amazon's latest AI chips to train upcoming Apple Intelligence models.LINK
Spotify adds AI to Wrapped – letting you make your own podcast.LINK
Apple's rumored smart home display has been delayed again.LINK
Hugging Face CEO has concerns about Chinese open source AI models.LINK
Baidu confirmed as China Apple Intelligence model provider, but privacy concerns mount.LINK
Latest research and tools
30cc: a toy C compiler that compiles itself, designed for educational purposes, outputting unoptimized x86-64 assembly and becoming fully independent after initial bootstrapping with a different compiler.LINK
Open-Source Colab Notebooks: a collection of advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that provides ready-to-use implementations, helping researchers and developers improve accuracy and relevance in LLM responses by leveraging external documents.LINK
You're Breathtaking [Godot #100000]: a community-driven open-source game engine developed over a decade with contributions from thousands, enabling game development with a strong emphasis on collaboration and creativity.LINK
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