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#196 - Nvidia Digits, Cosmos, PRIME, ICLR, InfAlign
1 hour 46 minutes Posted Jan 13, 2025 at 9:34 am.
) Intro / Banter
) Sponsor Break
) Nvidia announces $3,000 personal AI supercomputer called Digits
) Meta removes AI character accounts after users criticize them as ‘creepy and unnecessary’
) NVIDIA Is Reportedly Focused Towards “Custom Chip” Manufacturing, Recruiting Top Taiwanese Talent
) AI start-up Anthropic closes in on $60bn valuation
) Why OpenAI is Taking So Long to Launch Agents
) TSMC Set to Expand CoWoS Capacity to Record 75,000 Wafers in 2025, Doubling 2024 Output
) Microsoft 'pauses construction' on part of data center site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin
) Google folds more AI teams into DeepMind to ‘accelerate the research to developer pipeline’
) Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI
) Microsoft releases Phi-4 language model on Hugging Face
) PRIME: Online Reinforcement Learning with Process Rewards
) ICLR: In-Context Learning of Representations
) Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of o1-Like LLMs
) METAGENE-1: Metagenomic Foundation Model for Pandemic Monitoring
) TransPixar: Advancing Text-to-Video Generation with Transparency
) The amount of compute used to train frontier models has been growing at a breakneck pace of over 4x per year since 2018, resulting in an overall scale-up of more than 10,000x! But what factors are enabling this rapid growth?
) InfAlign: Inference-aware language model alignment
) Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims
) Anthropic gives court authority to intervene if chatbot spits out song lyrics
) US government says companies are no longer allowed to send bulk data to these nations
) Trump announces $20B plan to build new data centers in the US
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Our 196th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's* big AI news!
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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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