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  • Cloud Blog: Announcing smaller machine types for A3 High VMs

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/announcing-smaller-machine-types-for-a3-high-vms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing smaller machine types for A3 High VMs Feedly Summary: Today, an increasing number of organizations are using GPUs to run inference1 on their AI/ML models. Since the number of GPUs needed to serve a single inference workload varies, organizations need more granularity in the number of GPUs…

  • Cloud Blog: Migrate Oracle-based applications to Google Cloud and simplify operations

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/tips-for-migrating-oracle-based-applications-to-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Migrate Oracle-based applications to Google Cloud and simplify operations Feedly Summary: Last year, Google Cloud and Oracle forged a strategic partnership to accelerate cloud transformation for businesses, allowing them to integrate Oracle’s robust database capabilities within Google Cloud’s environment. This partnership applies to Oracle databases, as well as…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/trading-inference-time-compute/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness Feedly Summary: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness Brand new research paper from OpenAI, exploring how inference-scaling “reasoning" models such as o1 might impact the search for improved security with respect to things like prompt injection. We conduct experiments on the…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing the 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/announcing-the-2025-google-for-startups-accelerator-ai-first-uk/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing the 2025 Google for Startups Accelerator: AI First UK Feedly Summary: According to the UK Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, the UK’s AI sector is rapidly expanding, with over 3,000 AI companies generating more than £10 billion in revenues, employing over 60,000 people, and contributing £5.8…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-gemini 0.9

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/llm-gemini/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-gemini 0.9 Feedly Summary: llm-gemini 0.9 This new release of my llm-gemini plugin adds support for two new experimental models: learnlm-1.5-pro-experimental is “an experimental task-specific model that has been trained to align with learning science principles when following system instructions for teaching and learning use cases" –…

  • Hacker News: Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06425 Source: Hacker News Title: Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel attention mechanism called Tensor Product Attention (TPA) designed for scaling language models efficiently. It highlights the mechanism’s ability to reduce memory overhead during inference while improving model…

  • Hacker News: Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs

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    Source URL: https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-k1.5 Source: Hacker News Title: Kimi K1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text introduces Kimi k1.5, a new multi-modal language model that employs reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to significantly enhance AI performance, particularly in reasoning tasks. With advancements in context scaling and policy…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: DeepSeek-R1 and exploring DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B Feedly Summary: DeepSeek are the Chinese AI lab who dropped the best currently available open weights LLM on Christmas day, DeepSeek v3. That model was trained in part using their unreleased R1 “reasoning" model. Today they’ve released R1 itself, along with a whole…

  • Cloud Blog: GKE delivers breakthrough Horizontal Pod Autoscaler performance

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/rearchitected-gke-hpa-improves-scaling-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: GKE delivers breakthrough Horizontal Pod Autoscaler performance Feedly Summary: At Google Cloud, we are committed to providing the fastest and most reliable Kubernetes platform, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Today, we are excited to announce an improved Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), the Kubernetes feature that automatically updates workload resources…