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🤖 Tesla to have humanoid robots for internal use next year
🇨🇳 Nvidia preparing new flagship AI chip for Chinese market
⚡️ Musk's xAI turns on 'world's most powerful' AI training cluster
📺 Apple TV+ cuts costs after spending over $20 billion on content
📈 Study reveals rapid increase in web domains blocking AI models
🎁 + 7 other news you might like
🔮 + 7 handpicked research papers and tools
🤖 Tesla to have humanoid robots for internal use next yearLINK
Elon Musk announced that Tesla's Optimus robots will begin "low production" for internal tasks in 2025, with mass production for other firms starting in 2026.
Musk initially stated the Optimus robot would be ready to perform tasks in Tesla's EV factories by the end of this year.
Musk's plans for Optimus and AI products come as Tesla faces reduced demand for electric vehicles and anticipates low profit margins in upcoming quarterly results.
🇨🇳 Nvidia preparing new flagship AI chip for Chinese marketLINK
Nvidia is developing a new AI chip named "B20" specifically for the Chinese market to comply with U.S. export restrictions.
The "B20" chip, part of Nvidia's advanced Blackwell series, is aimed for release and shipment in the second quarter of 2025.
Nvidia plans to collaborate with Inspur for the distribution of the "B20," despite current tighter U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors to China.
⚡️ Musk's xAI turns on 'world's most powerful' AI training clusterLINK
Elon Musk's xAI has started training its AI models using over 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs at a new supercomputing facility in Memphis, Tennessee, described as the most powerful AI training cluster globally.
This facility, known as the "Gigafactory of Compute," is built in a former manufacturing site, and xAI secured $6 billion in funding, creating jobs for roles like fiber foreman, network engineer, and project manager.
The Memphis supercomputing site's large energy and water demands have raised concerns among local environmental groups and residents, who fear its significant impact on water supplies and electrical consumption.
📺 Apple TV+ cuts costs after spending over $20 billion on contentLINK
Apple may reduce spending on original content for its streaming service, Apple TV Plus, due to financial pressures in the wider streaming industry.
Apple's top executive Eddy Cue is urging studio chiefs to manage project budgets more strictly to make the streaming business more sustainable.
As Apple TV Plus struggles to compete with Netflix in viewership, the company is canceling more original series and increasingly licensing content from competitors.
📈 Study reveals rapid increase in web domains blocking AI modelsLINK
A new study finds that more websites are blocking AI models from accessing their training data, potentially leading to less accurate and more biased AI systems.
The Data Provenance Initiative conducted the study, analyzing 14,000 web domains and discovering an increase in blocked tokens from 1% to up to 7% from April 2023 to April 2024.
News websites, social media platforms, and forums are the primary sources of these restrictions, with blocked tokens on news sites rising dramatically from 3% to 45% within a year.
Other news you might like
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NASA's upcoming nuclear spaceships might take us to Mars.LINK
Meta files a patent to copy Vision Pro’s EyeSight feature.LINK
'Botshit' is an example of how AI is making customer service worse.LINK
New Chinese drone can fly as long as the sun shines.LINK
Latest research and tools
Jiff: a datetime library for Rust that simplifies high-level datetime operations, supports seamless time zone integration, and aims for safe and efficient use.LINK
Eza: a modern alternative to the traditional 'ls' command, enhancing file listing on Unix and Linux with features like color differentiation, symlink and Git integration, without needing complex setups, available across major platforms.LINK
Bash-Oneliners: a compilation of quick and effective command-line tips and tricks for data parsing and Linux system maintenance, drawing from practical experience and LPIC exam knowledge.LINK
Cosmopolitan v3.5.8: enables building of software that can run on various operating systems without needing changes.
Saved searches: allows users to create customized search filters for quicker access to desired results.LINK
TinkerBird: a Chrome-native vector database that enables efficient storage and retrieval of high-dimensional vectors directly within Chrome, using HNSW indexes for speedy searches and IndexedDB for storage, aiming to enhance large language models' accuracy and efficiency.LINK
Orch: a Rust framework designed for orchestrating language model applications, facilitating the development of software agents and applications in Rust, useful beyond its initial magic-cli integration.LINK
Constantine: a Nim language cryptography library offering constant-time cryptographic primitives, focusing on elliptic curve cryptography for blockchains and zero-knowledge proofs, without external dependencies, and incorporates a performance-oriented threadpool for parallel computations.LINK
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