The US and its hyperscalers are spending more money on AI and AI data centers. The US hyperscalers have huge capacity for $400 billion on capital expenditure and hundreds of billion on research. The US hyperscalers have more free cashflow to expand AI investments towards $1 trillion per year and beyond. China is getting Nvidia …
Claybrook is an experimental AI model developed by Google and the model’s focus is on web development with an emphasis frontend tasks such as UI/UX coding. Claybrook leverages advanced techniques, such as reinforcement learning (RL), tailored for frontend design. Frontend tasks—like designing user interfaces—lend themselves to well-defined reward functions, making them suitable for RL optimization. …
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil predicts AI will outperform human coders in competitive coding benchmarks by 2025. OpenAI’s Chief Product Officer (CPO) Kevin Weil claimed that AI could surpass human coders in competitive coding benchmarks by the end of 2025. He said this in a podcast with Avalon CEO Varun Mayya and YouTuber Tanmay Bhat on …
Anthropic releases a Claude 3.7 Sonnet reasoning model and Claude Code an agentic model. These are their most intelligent models to date. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is a hybrid reasoning model, producing near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking. Claude 3.7 was trained on real-world coding examples. Claude 3.5 has already been the best for real world …
It is possible to load and run 14 Billion parameter llm AI models on Raspberry Pi5 with 16 GB of memory ($120). However, they can be slow with about 0.6 tokens per second. A 13 billion parameter model can run at 1.36 tokens per second. Improved firmware (better SDRAM timing) improved results. Brian WangBrian Wang …
Magic is building frontier code models to automate software engineering and research. This AI coding assistance startup raised $320 million in a funding round led by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Magic’s total funding now stands at $515 million. Magic had about 23 people (+ 8000 H100s) in August, 2024. They are hiring more Engineers …
Terra Quantum is working with leading steel manufacturer POSCO Holdings (top Asian Steel company) to deploy quantum AI for optimizing steel production, specifically focusing on POSCO’s advanced blast furnaces. They will demonstrate the potential of Quantum Neural Networks to enhance efficiency, targeting tangible outcomes such as reduced emissions and energy consumption. Terra Quantum researchers were …
China’s main chipmaker, SMIC, has put together new semiconductor production lines in Shanghai, to mass-produce Huawei designed smartphone chips with a 5 nanometer lithographic process. In August 2023, Huawei surprised the industry and analysts with a 7 nanometer processor for its Mate 60 Pro premium smartphone launched. The phone helped it to increase shipments in …
Researchers claims to have developed a method for producing a layer of graphene on a silicon carbide (SiC) wafer to form a semiconductor with a band gap of 0.6 eV and with room temperature electron mobility 10-20 times larger than other 2D semiconductors. They used a quasi-equilibrium annealing method to produces high-quality semiconducting epigraphene (SEG) …
Researchers used the Advanced Photon Source to confirm the rare properties of this material, which could lead to more efficient large-scale computing. Physicists at the University of Washington and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have made a discovery that could help enable this more efficient future. Researchers have found a superconducting …
Researchers at Delft University of Technology, led by assistant professor Richard Norte, have unveiled a remarkable new material with potential to impact the world of material science: amorphous silicon carbide (a-SiC). Beyond its exceptional strength, this material demonstrates mechanical properties crucial for vibration isolation on a microchip. Amorphous silicon carbide is therefore particularly suitable for …