As inference splits into prefill and decode, Nvidia's Groq deal could enable a “Rubin SRAM” variant optimized for ultra-low latency agentic reasoning workloads
Nvidia is buying Groq for two reasons imo. 1) Inference is disaggregating into prefill and decode.
The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including CEO Jonathan Ross, creator of the TPU, and keeps them from companies that may try to make their own chips
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The Groq deal secures key talent for Nvidia, including CEO Jonathan Ross, creator of the TPU, and keeps them from companies that may try to make their own chips
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The White House unveils the AI Action Plan, seeking to assert US dominance over China, including proposals to ease permitting for AI infrastructure projects
The Trump administration called for boosting artificial intelligence development in the US by loosening regulations and expanding energy supply …
Memo: Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labs and 11 new hires for the group; Nat Friedman will “partner” with Alexandr Wang to lead the new group
Zuckerberg wrote Monday to employees that Meta's AI efforts will fall under a new group called Meta Superintelligence Labs …
New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's signature
New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios …
Sesame's AI speech model demo has many users expressing astonishment at its realism, with some testers reporting an emotional connection to the voice assistant
In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants.
Industry insiders say DeepSeek's focus on research makes it a dangerous competitor as it's willing to share breakthroughs rather than protect them for profits
China is pulling the same trick. — www.ft.com/content/747a... Mastodon: Brian Kung / @briankung@hachyderm.io : “There's a pretty delicious, or maybe disconcerting irony to this, ...
Rather than weakening China's AI capabilities, US sanctions appear to be driving startups like DeepSeek to innovate by prioritizing efficiency and collaboration
The AI community is abuzz over DeepSeek R1, a new open-source reasoning model. — The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup DeepSeek …
Yann LeCun says DeepSeek “profited from open research and open source” like Meta's Llama and is proof that open source models are surpassing proprietary ones
If you hadn't heard, there's a new AI star in town: DeepSeek, the subsidiary of Hong Kong-based quantitative analysis …
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3, an open-source MoE model of 671B total parameters, with 37B activated per token, claiming it outperforms top models like GPT-4o
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3.
Nvidia unveils Fugatto, an AI model for generating music and audio that can also modify voices, trained on open-source data, and weighs whether to release it
an impressive new AI sound model from Nvidia Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide : Nvidia unveils AI audio generator ‘Fugatto’ that can produce ‘sounds never heard before’ Su...
Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more
The new 8B & 3B models set a new frontier in knowledge, commonsense, reasoning, function-calling …
Mistral releases Les Ministraux AI models in 3B and 8B sizes with 128K context windows, aimed at on-device translation, internet-less smart assistants, and more
French AI startup Mistral has released its first generative AI models designed to be run on edge devices, like laptops and phones.
California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes AI safety bill SB 1047, saying it applies only to large AI models and doesn't account for if deployment is high risk
Governor seeks more encompassing rules than the bill opposed by OpenAI, Meta and supported by research scientists
California lawmakers weaken the AI safety bill with amendments proposed by Anthropic and other opponents, including giving the AG less power to sue AI companies
California's bill to prevent AI disasters, SB 1047, has faced significant opposition from many parties in Silicon Valley.
A look at Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which recently emerged from stealth with a $31M seed led by a16z and whose FLUX.1 model powers Grok's image generator
5 examples of it in action Alex Wilhelm / Cautious Optimism : Consumer strength, future inflation concerns, and behold, AngelList data M.G. Siegler / Spyglass : Xitter Rolls Out AI...
[Thread] A roundup of recent announcements from researchers, businesses, and academic institutions opposing California's AI safety bill
the real experts — agree the risks are real. We all urge you to pass it into law. Titus Wu / @tituswu100 : Pressure is intensifying on #SB1047, California's controversial #AI safe...
Q&A with Center for AI Safety's Dan Hendrycks about his work on California's AI safety bill, the backlash against the bill, advising xAI on safety, and more
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : X: @shiringhaffary , @drtechlash , and @anjneymidha X: Shirin Ghaffary / @shiringhaffary : NEW: For this week's newsletter, I talked to Center for AI...