🚀 Mistral AI Unveils Game-Changing Model, Screenless Phone Changes Tech, Amazon CEO Champions AI Transformation
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Mistral AI drops new ‘mixture of experts’ model with a torrent link. As Google unleashed a barrage of artificial intelligence announcements at its Cloud Next conference, Mistral AI decided to jump into action with the launch of its latest sparse mixture of experts (SMoE) model: Mixtral 8x22B. However, unlike its competitors, the Paris-based startup, which raised Europe’s largest-ever seed round in June 2023 and has become a rising star in the AI domain, didn’t push the release through a demo video or blog post. By Shubham Sharma via VentureBeat
𝕏: OSS AI is so back (never left) - Beff Jezos — e/acc (@BasedBeffJezos)
Humane AI Pin review: not even close. The idea behind the Humane AI Pin is a simple one: it's a phone without a screen. Instead of asking you to open apps and tap on a keyboard, this little wearable abstracts everything away behind an AI assistant and an operating system Humane calls CosmOS. Want to make a phone call, send a text message, calculate the tip, write something down, or learn the population of Copenhagen? Just ask the AI Pin. By David Pierce via The Verge
𝕏: The Humane Ai Pin is a mobile phone meant to save us from our phones, a wearable computer built to keep us in touch without putting a screen between us and the world. It’s a bold idea with a solid mission (plus, LASERS! 😄) But it also arrives as skepticism toward AI is building, tolerance for subscription-based gadgets is dropping – and more importantly? It just doesn’t do enough yet. - Michael Fisher (@Captain2Phones)
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Amazon CEO Touts AI Revolution While Committing to Cost Cuts. Amazon AMZN 0.24%increase; green up pointing triangle CEO Andy Jassy said generative artificial intelligence could be one of the largest technological transformations in decades. Writing in his annual letter to shareholders, Jassy laid out a vision for how generative AI is the company’s next pillar of growth following Marketplace, Prime and its cloud-computing unit Amazon Web Services. By Steven Russolillo via WSJ
𝕏: JASSY: “.. Generative #AI may be the largest technology transformation since the cloud .. and perhaps since the Internet. .. The amount of societal and business benefit from the solutions that will be possible will astound us all.” - Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla)
Meta unveils its newest custom AI chip as it races to catch up. Meta, hell-bent on catching up to rivals in the generative AI space, is spending billions on its own AI efforts. A portion of those billions is going toward recruiting AI researchers. But an even larger chunk is being spent developing hardware, specifically chips to run and train Meta’s AI models. Meta unveiled the newest fruit of its chip dev efforts today, conspicuously a day after Intel announced its latest AI accelerator hardware. By Kyle Wiggers via TechCrunch
𝕏: Meta announces 2nd-gen inference chip MTIAv2. * 708TF/s Int8 / 353TF/s BF16 * 256MB SRAM, 128GB memory * 90W TDP. 24 chips per node, 3 nodes per rack. * standard PyTorch stack (Dynamo, Inductor, Triton) for flexibility Fabbed on TSMC's 5nm process, its fully programmable via the standard PyTorch stack, driven via Triton for software kernels. This chip is an inference power-house and the software work is entirely driven by the PyTorch team, making usability a first; and its been great to see it in action on various Meta workloads. - Soumith Chintala (@soumithchintala)
Is robotics about to have its own ChatGPT moment? Henry got a glimmer of a different kind of life when he saw Charlie Kemp on CNN in 2010. Kemp, a robotics professor at Georgia Tech, was on TV talking about PR2, a robot developed by the company Willow Garage. PR2 was a massive two-armed machine on wheels that looked like a crude metal butler. Kemp was demonstrating how the robot worked, and talking about his research on how health-care robots could help people. He showed how the PR2 robot could hand some medicine to the television host. By Melissa Heikkilä via MIT Technology Review
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