#196 - Nvidia Digits, Cosmos, PRIME, ICLR, InfAlign
Our 196th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
*and sometimes last last week's
Recorded on 01/10/2024
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In this episode:
- Nvidia announced a $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits, featuring the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, aiming to lower the barrier for developers working on large models.
- The U.S. Department of Justice finalizes a rule restricting the transmission of specific data types to countries of concern, including China and Russia, under executive order 14117.
- Meta allegedly trained Llama on pirated content from LibGen, with internal concerns about the legality confirmed through court filings.
- Microsoft paused construction on a section of a large data center project in Wisconsin to reassess based on new technological changes.
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Timestamps + Links:
- (00:00:00) Intro / Banter
- (00:04:52) Sponsor Break
- Tools & Apps
- Applications & Business
- (00:16:16) NVIDIA Is Reportedly Focused Towards “Custom Chip” Manufacturing, Recruiting Top Taiwanese Talent
- (00:21:54) AI start-up Anthropic closes in on $60bn valuation
- (00:25:38) Why OpenAI is Taking So Long to Launch Agents
- (00:30:08) TSMC Set to Expand CoWoS Capacity to Record 75,000 Wafers in 2025, Doubling 2024 Output
- (00:33:10) Microsoft 'pauses construction' on part of data center site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin
- (00:37:23) Google folds more AI t
