December 2024

There were 3 posts published in December 2024 (this is page 1 of 1).

Weekly#616

  • Google releases its own ‘reasoning’ AI model…The new model, called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental…
  • Navigating the AI Frontier: A Primer on the Evolution and Impact of AI Agents
  • In just 4 months, AI coding assistant Cursor raised another $100M at a $2.5B valuation
  • AI-powered search engine Perplexity has reportedly closed a $500 million funding round, valuing the startup at $9 billion
  • Grammarly is buying Coda to expand AI offerings
  • Sony’s gaming and network services segment accounts for around 37% of its revenue
  • New physics sim trains robots 430,000 times faster than reality
  • ‘World’s first’ grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US
  • Japan Sees Nuclear as Cheapest Baseload Power Source in 2040
  • Do Autonomous Vehicles Outperform Latest-Generation Human-Driven Vehicles?
  • The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia?
  • IOT: Z-Wave LR standard’s range of up to 1 mile and operate on mesh networks that can support as many as 4,000 devices
  • Apple reportedly won’t launch an iPhone subscription service

Weekly#615

  • Google’s NotebookLM AI podcast hosts can now talk to you, too
  • Google Cloud launches Agentspace to create, deploy agents
  • Google’s new Jules AI agent will help developers fix buggy code
  • What Is (or Was) ‘Perks Culture’?
  • Intel executives say a manufacturing spinoff is possible
  • Introducing Gemini 2.0…Gemini 2.0 is the next chapter for Google AI
  • Incident Report for OpenAI
  • Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft
  • Palantir EVP: “Modern war cannot be won without software“
  • AI Coding Assistants Landscape
  • “…The other was Heschl’s gyrus, a fold on the upper temporal lobe which hosts the auditory cortex (the cortex is the outermost layer of the brain). Better reading ability was linked to a larger anterior part of the temporal lobe in the left hemisphere compared to the right…”

Weekly#614

  • OpenAI announces full “o1” reasoning model, $200 ChatGPT Pro tier…o1-preview successfully solved 83% of problems in the International Mathematics Olympiad qualifying exam, a sharp improvement from GPT-4o’s 13% success rate…
  • Copilot Vision, Microsoft’s AI tool that can read your screen, launches in preview
  • Amazon Web Services announced it’s launching a new AI supercomputer built from its own machine learning chips that could be one of the largest used to train AI models—and tries to rival chipmaking giant Nvidia.
  • Tech predictions for 2025 and beyond by Werner Vogels
  • AWS re:Invent Videos
  • The levels of code AI
  • Apple Prepares Three-Year Modem Rollout to Outdo Qualcomm
  • “…xAI plans to expand its Memphis, Tennessee, supercomputer to house at least one million graphics processing units (GPUs)…the move represents a massive expansion for the supercomputer called Colossus, which currently has 100,000 GPUs to train xAI’s chatbot called Grok…”
  • Music sector workers to lose nearly a quarter of income to AI in next four years, global study finds