Shane Legg talks about the 1997 and later creation and popular definition of general intelligence. Shane Legg, co-founder and Chief AGI Scientist at Google DeepMind, defines levels of artificial general intelligence (AGI) as a spectrum rather than a single binary threshold. NOTE: He mentions a 1997 paper on nanotechnology security that defined AGI. I, Brian …
Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image), is Google’s state-of-the art image generation and editing model, available starting today in Vertex AI and Google Workspace, and coming soon to Gemini Enterprise. Nano Banana Pro can use Google Search to research topics based on your query, and reason on how to present factual and grounded information. …
Google’s system leverages optical circuit switching (OCS) to create direct, low-latency optical paths between TPU chips, minimizing signal conversion losses. They avoid repeated optical-electrical-optical transformations. This enables efficient data sharing across thousands of chips in a single pod, with signals remaining in the optical domain for most inter-chip communication. Ironwood, seventh generation TPU, is purpose-built …
Ark Invest thinks Google has taken the lead with Gemini 3 + Nano Banana Pro. Brett Winton thinks we are heading from transformer architecture to a mix of transformer, diffusion and memory. In the medium term (1-2 years) Google’s distribution, bundling, and cost advantages are seen as the biggest structural moat. They predict that when …
XAI continues to apply updates and fixes to Grok 4.1. Google Gemini 3 Pro is slowly slipping on the realtime ratings on lmarena for text. It is down from the low 1505-1510 level to 1495. Grok 4.1 thinking is holding at 1481. It is only a 1% or 14 point ELO gap. XAI Grok 4.1 …
Multi-billionaire fund manager Gavin Baker gives the overview of the state of AI. Nextbigfuture identified the AI data center scaling of google and XAI over a year ago. AI Scaling Laws are Intact. Four leaders in AI – Google, xAI, OpenAI and Anthropic. BUT Google and XAI will pull away with faster and more compute …
Gemini 3 is here and it edges out XAI Grok 4.1 as the state of the art model topping the leaderboards. This is likely be the best for coding in Apps with tool use. The new agentic development platform, Google Antigravity will be a Cursor (AI coding) competitor. They used the guts of windsurf and …
Gemini 3 has not been officially released yet; only preview checkpoints are accessible to select users via routing errors or A/B testing in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI. Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed Gemini 3 will arrive before end of 2025. The Context Window is up to 1 million tokens and has standard tiers …
In LMArena, Grok4.1 (Thinking) and Grok4.1 ranks first. In the earlier benchmark tests, Grok4.1 (Thinking) ranked first with a score of 1510. Currently, it is still first but with a score of 1483. Grok 4.1 is second. There is a massive reduction in hallucination. It drops from 12% to about 4%. This version scored more …
Google Project Suncatcher is a new research moonshot to one day scale machine learning in space. Working backward from this potential future, they are exploring how an interconnected network of solar-powered satellites, equipped with our Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) AI chips, could harness the full power of the Sun. The next step is a learning …
StarCloud’s Nvidia H100 chip launch, Google’s TPU plans for 2027, and Elon’s ambitious 100 GW target by 2030 via SpaceX’s Starship. Challenges include chip shortages, high launch costs (needing under $80M per 40 MW payload for viability), and timelines akin to delayed projects like robotaxis. Starlink’s evolution will be from V2/V3 and AI versions of …