Apple to =E2=80=98Pay' Open=
AI for ChatGPT Through Distribution, Not Cash (5 minute read)
Apple and OpenAI's partnership isn't ex=
pected to generate meaningful revenue for either party, at least at the beg=
inning. Apple believes that pushing OpenAI's brand and technology to its de=
vices is of equal or greater value than monetary payments so it isn't payin=
g OpenAI as part of the deal. The deal isn't exclusive - Apple is already d=
iscussing offering other chatbots as additional options. Apple eventually p=
lans to make money from AI by striking revenue-sharing agreements with AI p=
artners.
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Meta to Reduce VP Positions=
From 300 to 250 (2 minute read)
Meta is reportedly looking to cut down =
on its number of vice-president positions from 300 to about 250. The compan=
y's job cuts were guided by principles focused on making Meta an even stron=
ger technology company. These principles included removing multiple layers =
of management, canceling projects, making every organization leaner, buildi=
ng an optimal ratio of engineers to other roles, and investing in AI and ot=
her tools. Meta's capital expenditures on AI and Reality Labs will range be=
tween $35 billion and $40 billion by the end of 2024.
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Science & Futuristic Technology
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Tesla claims it has 2 Optim=
us humanoid robots working autonomously in factory (3 minute read)
A recent tweet from Tesla's official ac=
count listed a rundown of the company's accomplishments under Elon Musk's l=
eadership since 2018, when the $55 billion pay package was approved by shar=
eholders. The last item on the list claims that the company has two Optimus=
robots performing tasks in a factory autonomously. Musk recently said that=
the Optimus robot might go on sale as soon as next year. It is expected to=
cost 'less than half of a car'.
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Giant Chips Give Supercompu=
ters a Run for Their Money (4 minute read)
Cerebras, a California-based company, h=
as demonstrated that its second-generation wafer-scale engine is significan=
tly faster than the world's faster supercomputer in molecular dynamics calc=
ulations. It can also perform sparse large language model inference at one-=
third of the energy cost of a full model without losing any accuracy. Both =
achievements are possible due to the interconnects and fast memory access e=
nabled by Cerebras' hardware. Cerebras is looking to extend the application=
s of its wafer-scale engine to a larger class of problems, including molecu=
lar dynamics simulations of biological processes and simulations of airflow=
around vehicles.
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Programming, Design & Data Science
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Restate (GitHub Repo)
Restate is a platform for building resi=
lient applications that tolerate all infrastructure faults. It enables deve=
lopers to easily build workflows, event-driven applications, and distribute=
services in a fault-tolerant manner with durable async/await. Restate is g=
reat at building lambda workflows as code, transactional RPC handlers, even=
t processing with Kafka, and more. It supports TypeScript, Java, and Kotlin=
..
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NLUX (GitHub Repo)
NLUX is a conversational AI JavaScript =
library that provides a UI for large language models. It makes it super sim=
ple to integrate powerful large language models into web apps. NLUX feature=
s React components and hooks, LLM adapters, streaming LLM output, and custo=
m renderers.
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Silicon Valley's Best Kept =
Secret: Founder Liquidity (7 minute read)
Founder liquidity is the practice where=
founders sell a portion of their shares during a funding round. It allows =
founders to reduce risk and secure personal financial stability while conti=
nuing to build the company with a fresh influx of venture capital. The prac=
tice is often kept secret because it undermines the narrative of the founde=
r who is 'all-in'. It might change how startups are perceived and valued if=
it were widely known that founders could de-risk their financial position =
while their employees remained all-in.
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Spreadsheet Superstars (40 =
minute read)
Competitive Excel is a real thing. The =
Excel World Championship was recently held at the MGM in Las Vegas. This ar=
ticle takes readers to the front rows of the event. It details what the com=
petition entails and what the event was like. While the event may never be =
mainstream, it proves that spreadsheeting can be a sport.
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Nvidia Conquers Latest AI T=
ests (4 minute read)
Systems powered by Nvidia's Hopper arch=
itecture dominated the results of two new tests from MLPerf, an AI benchmar=
king suite, that compare the fine-tuning of large language models and train=
ing of graph neural networks.
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AI will make money sooner t=
han you'd think (54 minute read)
This article contains a transcript of a=
n interview with Aidan Gomez, CEO of Cohere, where he discusses Cohere's pa=
th to profitability, the benefit of competition in the enterprise space, AI=
's current abilities, the future of large language models, and more.
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