Meta Muse Glimmer: the 30B agent needs 24GB of VRAM
Your card holds 24 GB, or it doesn't. That one number decides whether today's Meta release is something you'll actually run or just something you'll read about. Muse Glimmer went ...
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Source Foundry: $400M and a $5B bet against ASML
A hedge fund that lost roughly two thirds of its value in July just wrote a $400 million cheque for a company nobody has seen a product from. Bloomberg named ...
ByteDance’s 10T model is pretraining, not a product
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 ...
Genesis-Science-1: DOE Opened a Portal, Not a Model
Somebody 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 ...
TfL licensed 15 Wayve cars in London, driver still inside
Picture 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 ...
AMD buys Taalas: the HC1 etches Llama 3.1 into silicon
Picture 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 ...
Entanglement Ran 62 km of Aerial Fiber at 92.8% Uptime
Somewhere between Gaithersburg and College Park there's a strand of ordinary telecom fiber hanging off utility poles, doing what fiber on poles does: swaying in wind, stretching in the afternoon ...
Terafab: what Tesla and SpaceX’s $16.8B first phase buys
Grimes 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 ...
Anthropic’s custom silicon team: no chip, no timeline
Six 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 ...
GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT is not the Sol in your API calls
You 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 ...