Tag: infrastructure optimization

  • The Register: Baidu robocabs break even in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/baidu_q2_2025/ Source: The Register Title: Baidu robocabs break even in low-fare China, company expects to cash in elsewhere Feedly Summary: Web giant reworks AI infra to improve utilization, with mix of chips from home and away Chinese web giant Baidu is already breaking even with robotaxi operations in China and is confident they…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/qwen3-4b-instruct-and-thinking/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Feedly Summary: Qwen3-4B Instruct and Thinking Yet another interesting model from Qwen—these are tiny compared to their other recent releases (just 4B parameters, 7.5GB on Hugging Face and even smaller when quantized) but with a 262,144 context length, which Qwen suggest is essential…

  • Slashdot: Aurora’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Now Driving At Night

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/01/2242247/auroras-self-driving-trucks-are-now-driving-at-night Source: Slashdot Title: Aurora’s Self-Driving Trucks Are Now Driving At Night Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Aurora Innovation’s expansion of its autonomous trucking operations highlights significant advancements in self-driving technology, particularly with nighttime operations between major cities. The company’s focus on efficiency, safety, and the integration of advanced sensors…

  • Cloud Blog: Unlock 66% better price-performance with new M4 VMs for memory-intensive workloads

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/m4-vms-are-designed-for-memory-intensive-workloads-like-sap/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Unlock 66% better price-performance with new M4 VMs for memory-intensive workloads Feedly Summary: Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of the memory-optimized machine series: Compute Engine M4, our most performant memory-optimized VM with under 6TB of memory.  The M4 family is designed for workloads like SAP…

  • Hacker News: The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here

    Source URL: https://manidoraisamy.com/developer-forever/post/the-era-of-solopreneurs-is-here.anc-52867368-2029-4dc5-a7da-ece853a648b5.html Source: Hacker News Title: The Era of Solopreneurs Is Here Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the transformative impact of AI on the software development landscape, emphasizing how companies like DeepSeek are leveraging AI to optimize costs and enhance productivity. It discusses the potential disruption to…

  • AWS News Blog: DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS

    Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/deepseek-r1-models-now-available-on-aws/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: DeepSeek-R1 models now available on AWS Feedly Summary: DeepSeek-R1, a powerful large language model featuring reinforcement learning and chain-of-thought capabilities, is now available for deployment via Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI, enabling users to build and scale their generative AI applications with minimal infrastructure investment to…

  • Cloud Blog: C4A, the first Google Axion Processor, now GA with Titanium SSD

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/first-google-axion-processor-c4a-now-ga-with-titanium-ssd/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: C4A, the first Google Axion Processor, now GA with Titanium SSD Feedly Summary: Today, we are thrilled to announce the general availability of C4A virtual machines with Titanium SSDs custom designed by Google for cloud workloads that require real-time data processing, with low-latency and high-throughput storage performance. Titanium…

  • Hacker News: SOTA on swebench-verified: relearning the bitter lesson

    Source URL: https://aide.dev/blog/sota-bitter-lesson Source: Hacker News Title: SOTA on swebench-verified: relearning the bitter lesson Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses advancements in AI, particularly around leveraging large language models (LLMs) for software engineering challenges through novel approaches such as test-time inference scaling. It emphasizes the key insight that scaling…

  • Hacker News: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix

    Source URL: https://netflixtechblog.com/cloud-efficiency-at-netflix-f2a142955f83 Source: Hacker News Title: Cloud Efficiency at Netflix Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Short Summary: The text discusses Netflix’s utilization of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance cloud efficiency through a two-component data solution, Foundational Platform Data (FPD) and Cloud Efficiency Analytics (CEA). This approach aims to provide clear…