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IT'S A JAX, JAX, JAX, JAX WORLD

Stan's days are likely numbered. High-end applications are replacing Stan with JAX. The biggest obstacle for the shift is finding hardware on which to run JAX most effectively, but this won't be a problem in ten years. The Stan project will continue development, as it will likely still be used for a long time. The team has plenty of strategies for making it faster, like adding samplers that will work well on CPU but not on GPU.

2 HOURS IN LINE FOR A FREE HAT

The Claude team recently gave out hats and coffee at an event where people had to wait two hours in line. This post details how the event went down. Participants at the event waited, took pictures, posted on social media, and became one of the cool kids. The Claude team created an experience people wanted to be part of, which made it worth waiting for hours just for a hat. Pictures of the event and the merch the Claude team handed out are available in the article.

THIS META ALUM HAS SPENT 10 MONTHS LEADING OPENAI'S NATIONWIDE HUNT FOR ITS STARGATE DATA CENTERS

Keith Heyde, OpenAI's Head of Infrastructure, leads site development within OpenAI's industrial compute team, a division that's quickly becoming one of the most important groups in the company. Infrastructure is now a strategic pillar on par with product and model development. OpenAI is betting that owning the next generation of physical infrastructure is central to controlling the future of AI. This article looks at how Heyde has spent the past several months searching for Stargate data center sites and the challenges that face the project.

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