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OpenAI is reportedly working with Broadcom to develop custom silicon designed to handle large AI workloads for inference. It has secured manufacturing capacity with TSMC. The custom-designed hardware will likely not start production until 2026. OpenAI's chip development team reportedly includes lead engineers who have previously worked on Google's Tensor processors for AI.
xAI is in talks with investors regarding a funding round that would value it around $40 billion. The startup was last valued at $24 billion just a few months ago. The funding discussions are in the early stages, so terms are still subject to change and the talks could fall apart. The company's current revenue sources include the X Premium subscription and an API developers can use to build applications with Grok.
Solid-state cells, an emerging, ground-breaking technology, are already hitting the market. These batteries solidify the traditionally liquid electrolyte, enabling advantages such as higher energy density and lower cost and weight. There are many different types of solid-state cells. This article looks at several of the competitors in this industry and their approaches to developing solid-state batteries.
A team of researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich claims to have developed a robotic construction method that is better than 3D printing. Impact printing uses Earth-based materials such as sand, silt, clay, and gravel to make homes. It is less carbon-intensive and much more sustainable and affordable than 3D printing. Earth-based materials are abundant, recyclable, available at low costs, and can even be excavated at the construction site. The researchers plan to commercialize this technology once they have a prefabrication facility.
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Google Copilot is switching to a multi-model approach over the coming weeks. It will roll out Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Copilot Chat's web and VC Code interfaces over the next few weeks, with Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro coming a bit later. GitHub is also adding support for a wider range of OpenAI models, including GPT o1-preview and o1-mini. Developers will be able to switch between the models to tailor the model to fit their needs. Organizations will be able to choose which models will be usable by team members.
Trench is an event tracking system that can handle large event volumes and provide real-time analytics. It is no-cookie, GDPR, and PECR compliant. Trench is compliant with the Segment API and can be deployed quickly with a single production-ready Docker image. It can process thousands of events per second on a single node, query data in real time, and connect data to other destinations with webhooks.
Google's third quarter 2024 earnings call highlighted how important AI is to the company. More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers. The company reported $88.3 billion in revenue for the quarter. While many people feel Google isn't as reliable as it once was, the company continues to operate a very strong business. Google faces a potentially tough road ahead - a breakup is on the table following a ruling that the company is a monopolist in the search and advertising markets.
Pat Gelsinger took the reins as Intel CEO three years ago with hopes of reviving the American industrial icon. At the time, Intel had a deal going with Taiwan's TSMC where TSMC would make chips that Intel designed but could not produce at a deep discount. Gelsinger offended TSMC by calling out Taiwan's precarious relations with China, resulting in TSMC deciding to no longer honor the discount. Gelsinger's affront to Taiwan was part of a series of missteps, covered in this article, during his time as Intel CEO.
Apple is using an Indian factory to do the early manufacturing work for the base model of next year's iPhone 17.
GitHub Spark allows developers to quickly build small web apps using nothing but natural language.
8K TVs are better than multi-monitor setups for writing code all day or staring at Excel spreadsheets.
Zerox is an OCR tool that converts documents for AI ingestion.
Slight failed to get enough traction to raise its seed round for several reasons, including a lack of 'big company features', issues with distribution, a lack of funding, and over-engineering.
Meta is the most well-placed company to take advantage of generative AI due to its abundance of content - every part of its business benefits from AI.