The “Aardvark” weather forecasting AI will bring to personal digital devices the same world-class forecasts that AI has recently made far quicker and less expensive than has been available, the developers said.
Tag: AI
“INFERENCE” IS THE NEW BATTLEGROUND FOR AI CHIP MAKERS
Nvidia leads the world in making ever more complex and costly chips that train AI models. Now chip makers looking to take a piece of Nvidia’s market share have found a new path to that goal.
DEEPSEEK STICKS TO RESEARCH, NOT REVENUE-SEEKING
Unlike AI Western developers, Chinese company DeepSeek has reacted to its recent fame and soaring sales by focusing even more heavily on research, not chasing greater and greater revenue.
ANOTHER CHINESE DEVELOPER CLAIMS AN AI BREAKTHROUGH
Ant Group, the largest Chinese digital payments and financial services group, claims it has used Chinese-made chips to train a large language model AI at a cost 20 percent below that incurred by Western developers such as Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: THE AGE OF ‘AI ANTI-ABUNDANCE’ IS IN FULL SWING
A breakthrough in creating (gene edited) biological muscle tissue to build flesh robots, and WIRED magazine is growing more concerned about AI white collar job threats…it’s all part of what we’re dubbing the Age of AI Anti-Abundance.
TECH COMPANIES CARRIED OUT ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ SCALE OF IP THEFT, SAYS THE ATLANTIC (WHICH WE HAVE POINTED OUT FOR YEARS)
In several stories this past week, The Atlantic has focused on how AI companies including Meta used a large digital repository file containing thousands of copyrighted books, in order to train its generative AI models.
AI BRIEFS
Scientists at Imperial College London worked for 10 years to figure out exactly how a superbug virus—one that has become drug-resistant—gained its ability to infect a range of kinds of bacteria instead of just one or a related few.
YUM BRANDS IS IN THE CHIPS
The conglomerate that owns KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell has partnered with Nvidia, the world’s dominant maker of AI chips, to ease and improve customers’ experiences, boost franchisees’ technological infrastructure, and earn more money for shareholders, Joe Park, the company’s chief technology officer, said in a statement.
TOP U.S. COLLEGE GRADS SEND THEIR RESUMES TO CHINA
New graduates from Harvard, Stanford, and other leading U.S. universities are applying for work at China’s Manycore AI company, Bloomberg reported.
THE BLACKROCK-MICROSOFT AI PARTNERSHIP JUST GOT BIGGER
Market-leading chipmaker Nvidia and Elon Musk’s xAI have joined the partnership between Microsoft and private equity giant BlackRock to build up to $100 billion worth of AI data centers and electricity supplies to power them.