The Daily Index — Monday, March 24, 2025 · TLDR Index

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THE STRUGGLE THAT MADE US IN WATERLOO

The power in the software industry is transferring from the employee to the employer, causing many seasoned professionals to question their self-worth and students to worry. Being a student back amid the global financial crisis was a stressful experience, with the pressures causing many students to drop out every year. It didn't get easier for students - they just got better at playing the game. Current students need to stay strong and keep going. School can be challenging - the experience will change you in ways you won't understand until much later, but when you finally do, you'll look back and know it was worth it.

intention.bearblog.dev · 4 min

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META HAS REVENUE SHARING AGREEMENTS WITH LLAMA AI MODEL HOSTS, FILING REVEALS

While Mark Zuckerberg claims that selling access to Meta's Llama AI models isn't in Meta's business model, the company does at least make some money from the models through revenue-sharing agreements. A court filing has revealed that Meta shares a percentage of the revenue that companies hosting its Llama models generate from users. These companies may include AWS, Nvidia, Databricks, Groq, Dell, Azure, Google Cloud, and Snowflake.

techcrunch.com · 2 min

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PERPLEXITY AI SAYS IT WOULD REBUILD TIKTOK'S ALGORITHM AND ADD COMMUNITY NOTES FEATURES

Perplexity AI has outlined its vision for TikTok in detail publicly for the first time.

engadget.com · 2 min

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MOST AI VALUE WILL COME FROM BROAD AUTOMATION, NOT FROM R&D

Research and development is generally not as economically valuable as people assume and it's significantly harder to automate R&D jobs than it might naively seem.

epoch.ai · 25 min

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I WANT A GOOD PARALLEL COMPUTER

There have been some promising parallel computer designs in the past, but they have failed for various complex reasons, leaving us with overly complex and limited GPUs and AI accelerators.

raphlinus.github.io · 27 min

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THE BITTER LESSON: RETHINKING HOW WE BUILD AI SYSTEMS

The AI engineer's role is to design systems that can effectively utilize increasing compute resources, build robust learning environments that scale, and create architectures that can grow without requiring fundamental redesigns.

ankitmaloo.com · 6 min

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GOOGLE'S RACE FROM BEHIND AGAINST OPENAI HAS 'BEEN LIKE SPRINTING A MARATHON'

Google's Gemini AI models are now among the top-ranked chatbots on community-driven platform Chatbot Arena.

qz.com · 3 min

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A CLOSER LOOK AT DYNAMO, NVIDIA'S 'OPERATING SYSTEM' FOR AI INFERENCE

Nvidia's Dynamo is tuned for Nvidia's hardware and software stacks - it will run on any Nvidia GPU going back to Ampere.

theregister.com · 5 min