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TLDR 2024-03-06

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01BIG TECH & STARTUPS

OPENAI AND ELON MUSK

OpenAI has released a statement detailing its mission and facts about the company's relationship with Elon Musk. The company plans to dismiss all of the claims from Musk's recent lawsuit. OpenAI partnered with Microsoft as it realized that it needed a lot more capital to succeed at its mission of achieving Artificial General Intelligence. It continues to advance its mission by building widely-available beneficial tools. OpenAI's statement includes an email exchange between Musk and OpenAI regarding funding.

openai.com10 min read

02SCIENCE & FUTURISTIC TECHNOLOGY

DELL EXEC REVEALS NVIDIA HAS A 1,000-WATT GPU IN THE WORKS

Nvidia's B200 AI accelerator will consume 1,000 watts without requiring liquid cooling. The chip isn't expected to launch until late 2024. Nvidia plans to launch its H200 GPUs in the next few months. The company claims the H200 can double the performance of large language models thanks to its HBM3e memory stacks, which provide 4.8TB/second of bandwidth.

theregister.com3 min read

I WORKED EXCLUSIVELY IN VISION PRO FOR A WEEK — HERE’S HOW IT WENT

The Apple Vision Pro's $3,500 price tag would be much easier to justify if it managed to replace multiple devices at once, just like the iPhone did when it first arrived. It is possible to get serious work done while wearing the Vision Pro - if you can work on an iPad, you can work on a Vision Pro. However, it can't replace a Mac for everyone due to lacking some heavy-duty applications. One big downside is the lack of a practical way to use the Vision Pro in meetings.

arstechnica.com22 min read

03PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

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NERDY INTERNALS OF AN APPLE TEXT EDITOR 👨🏻🔧

This article discusses engineering details behind Paper, a text editor for Apple platforms. While Paper is built on the older TextKit 1 framework, all of the concepts, abstractions, and principles discussed in the article still apply to TextKit 2, either unchanged or under a better API. The article covers the TextView class, syntax highlighting, styling, typing, performance, sharing, and much more.

papereditor.app19 min read

TRAINING GREAT LLMS ENTIRELY FROM GROUND ZERO IN THE WILDERNESS AS A STARTUP

Training AI models requires compute, but there's a large amount of instability and huge variance in the quality of clusters, accelerators, and connectivity in compute providers. This article discusses the differences between training models at Google and training models 'in the wild' - outside of Google, where data scientists have to use GPUs instead of Google's TPUs. It makes comparisons between Google's infrastructure and tools to their equivalents in the outside world. With the right amount of brute technical strength, it is possible to train models from scratch that match Gemini Pro/GPT 3.5.

yitay.net15 min read

04MISCELLANEOUS

LINUX MARKET SHARE PASSES 4% FOR FIRST TIME; MACOS DOMINANCE DECLINES

Linux reached 4.03% of global market share in February. It only recently hit the 3% milestone in June last year. Windows has seen an increase in usage, but macOS has seen a drop in its market share, despite its global computer market share going up in the same period. Windows and macOS represent 87.59% of desktop OSes.

arstechnica.com3 min read

BITCOIN ROCKETS TO AN ALL-TIME HIGH ABOVE $69,000, SURPASSING 2021 RECORD

Bitcoin has reached a new all-time high for the first time in more than two years. It surpassed $69,000 before retreating - the previous record was $68,982.20 on November 10, 2021. The current rally is fueled by excitement over bitcoin ETFs and the upcoming halving event. While investors are cautious about a possible correction, there are still longer-term catalysts supporting the positive price action.

cnbc.com5 min read