There are exclusive articles for paid subscribers on the Nextbigfuture Substack. The history of human colonization tells us what is needed for a future sustainable human interstellar colonization. What is needed for Artificial Superintelligence. Here is an overview of what is needed for AGI and ASI level AI. I will briefly review some key concepts …
Microsoft is doing very well by buying OpenAI. OpenAI is making money now. AI Models are becoming commoditized. In the long run, there seems to be a race to the bottom on pricing. Open Source AI models like Meta could be used to become the Platform. All of the development happens on your platform. If …
Grok-1.5V is XAI’s first-generation multimodal model. In addition to its strong text capabilities, Grok can now process a wide variety of visual information, including documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots, and photographs. Grok-1.5V will be available soon to our early testers and existing Grok users. Capabilities Grok-1.5V is competitive with existing frontier multimodal models in a number …
Sanctuary AI, a company on a mission to create the world’s first human-like intelligence in general purpose robots, has announced a strategic partnership with global mobility technology company Magna. Sanctuary’s CTO Suzanne Gildert explained their mind and hands first approach. Sanctuary AI views humanoid robots as a means to an end, where the end is …
The Unitree H1 Humanoid robot can outrun a human being. In this video we review the Unitree H1 robot and other humanoid robots and briefly consider the expected impacts on our world. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …
Devin is an AI that was used on the SWE-bench, a challenging benchmark that asks agents to resolve real-world GitHub issues found in open source projects like Django and scikit-learn. Devin correctly resolves 13.86% of the issues end-to-end, far exceeding the previous state-of-the-art of 1.96%. Even when given the exact files to edit, the best …
Investors close to Elon Musk are in talks to help xAI raise $3 billion in a round that would value the artificial-intelligence startup at $18 billion. The venture-capital firm Gigafund and Steve Jurvetson, a prominent Musk backer and co-founder of another venture firm, are among the backers considering investing in the round, the people said. …
June 27, 2023 Elon and Tesla realize that FSD version 12 would be good enough to get off beta. Version 12 won’t be beta — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 27, 2023 March 11, 2024 Said FSD Beta 12.3 is such a big release it should be called Version 13. Elon: FSD Beta 12.3 is such …
Tesla FSD is improving rapidly with FSD 12.3.X going to all Tesla buyers in the North America. FSD 12.4 should be out this month and it is reported to be substantially better. There were reports two weeks ago from some Tesla engineers who believed that FSD would reach robotaxi level by July 2024. There was …
In the first quarter, Tesla produced over 433,000 vehicles and delivered approximately 387,000 vehicles. They deployed 4,053 MWh of energy storage products in Q1, the highest quarterly deployment yet. The delivery numbers were bad for Tesla in Q1. There were fires in Berlin from ecoterrorists and delays in the supply chain because of Persian Gulf …
The all-treatments group is still taking roughly twice as long as the all-controls group (starting from 19 months old, when the experiment began) to get down to a given survival percentage in males. The all treatments female mice are lasting 50% longer than controls. It’ll still be a few months before we can start to …