Somebody forwarded us the headline twice on Friday. China's biggest AI model, ten trillion parameters. Here's the actual shape of it: on 7 August the Financial Times reported that ByteDance...
Read moreDetailsSomebody is going to forward you a headline this week saying the US government released an open-weight AI model. It didn't. What the Department of Energy put online on 7...
Read moreDetailsPicture the car that just got licensed. A Ford Mustang Mach-E with surround cameras and radar, and a person sat behind the steering wheel who is legally the driver. That...
Read moreDetailsPicture a chip you can't reflash. That's the bet AMD just bought. On 6 August it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a three-year-old Toronto outfit that etches model...
Read moreDetailsGrimes County sits an hour northwest of Houston and it's mostly ranch land. It now has a $30 million state grant and a plan for the largest building on the...
Read moreDetailsSix job listings. That's most of the announcement, and honestly it's more informative than the headlines stacked on top of it. On 5 August Anthropic confirmed it's building a custom...
Read moreDetailsYou tune a prompt in ChatGPT until it behaves, paste it into your API call, and the answer comes back longer and mushier. Since 6 August that isn't you imagining...
Read moreDetailsIonQ published the announcement on 6 August, then published it again a few hours later marked UPDATED. The second version is the one worth reading. The headline held at 125...
Read moreDetailsYour Gemini API key still works. Worth saying first, because the news out of Mountain View reads like an earthquake if you only scan the names. On 5 August Sundar...
Read moreDetailsMeta published three coding benchmark charts on Wednesday and finished first on none of them. Odd way to launch, and it tells you what Muse Code is actually selling. It...
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