Tag: AI development

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/canada_ai_funding/ Source: The Register Title: Canada commits $1.4B to sovereign compute infrastructure as it joins the AI arms race Feedly Summary: Project includes hundreds of millions of loonies for a national supercomputing facility Canada is one of the latest nations to catch the sovereign AI bug and plans to invest $2 billion CAD…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: New Pleias 1.0 LLMs trained exclusively on openly licensed data

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/5/pleias-llms/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: New Pleias 1.0 LLMs trained exclusively on openly licensed data Feedly Summary: New Pleias 1.0 LLMs trained exclusively on openly licensed data I wrote about the Common Corpus public domain dataset back in March. Now Pleias, the team behind Common Corpus, have released the first family of…

The Register: Wish there was a benchmark for ML safety? Allow us to AILuminate you…

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/05/mlcommons_ai_safety_benchmark/ Source: The Register Title: Wish there was a benchmark for ML safety? Allow us to AILuminate you… Feedly Summary: Very much a 1.0 – but it’s a solid start MLCommons, an industry-led AI consortium, on Wednesday introduced AILuminate – a benchmark for assessing the safety of large language models in products.… AI…

Slashdot: Elon Musk’s xAI Plans Massive Expansion of AI Supercomputer in Memphis

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/12/05/0246248/elon-musks-xai-plans-massive-expansion-of-ai-supercomputer-in-memphis Source: Slashdot Title: Elon Musk’s xAI Plans Massive Expansion of AI Supercomputer in Memphis Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Elon Musk’s xAI is significantly expanding its supercomputer capabilities in Memphis, Tennessee, with plans to increase from 100,000 to at least one million GPUs. This expansion not only intensifies competition…

The Register: Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/04/meta_us_nuclear_power/ Source: The Register Title: Fission impossible? Meta wants up to 4GW of American atomic power for AI Feedly Summary: Facebook titan targets early 2030s for reactor deployment Meta believes it will need one to four gigawatts of nuclear power, in additional to the energy it already consumes, to fuel its AI ambitions.…

AWS News Blog: Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/meet-your-training-timelines-and-budgets-with-new-amazon-sagemaker-hyperpod-flexible-training-plans/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: Meet your training timelines and budgets with new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans Feedly Summary: Unlock efficient large model training with SageMaker HyperPod flexible training plans – find optimal compute resources and complete training within timelines and budgets. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The announcement…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Sam Altman Says Artificial General Intelligence Is on the Horizon

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000009858580/sam-altman-openai-dealbook.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Sam Altman Says Artificial General Intelligence Is on the Horizon Feedly Summary: Speaking at The New York Times DealBook Summit, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, said that the arrival of artificial general intelligence would “matter much less” to the average person than…

Hacker News: Veo and Imagen 3: Announcing new video and image generation models on Vertex AI

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-veo-and-imagen-3-on-vertex-ai Source: Hacker News Title: Veo and Imagen 3: Announcing new video and image generation models on Vertex AI Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the secure and responsible design of Google’s AI tools, Veo and Imagen 3, emphasizing built-in safeguards, digital watermarking, and data governance. It…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why

Dec 3, 2024

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