Tag: storage efficiency
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Slashdot: Google’s AlphaEarth AI Maps Any 10-Meter Area on Earth Using Satellite Data
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/2032255/googles-alphaearth-ai-maps-any-10-meter-area-on-earth-using-satellite-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s AlphaEarth AI Maps Any 10-Meter Area on Earth Using Satellite Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has launched AlphaEarth Foundations, an innovative AI model designed to analyze vast amounts of satellite data for environmental tracking. It significantly enhances the accuracy and efficiency of mapping…
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Cloud Blog: Save early and often with multi-tier checkpointing to optimize large AI training jobs
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/using-multi-tier-checkpointing-for-large-ai-training-jobs/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Save early and often with multi-tier checkpointing to optimize large AI training jobs Feedly Summary: As foundation model training infrastructure scales to tens of thousands of accelerators, efficient utilization of those high-value resources becomes paramount. In particular, as the cluster gets larger, hardware failures become more frequent (~…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Long context support in LLM 0.24 using fragments and template plugins
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/7/long-context-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Long context support in LLM 0.24 using fragments and template plugins Feedly Summary: LLM 0.24 is now available with new features to help take advantage of the increasingly long input context supported by modern LLMs. (LLM is my command-line tool and Python library for interacting with LLMs,…
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Cloud Blog: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/storage-data-transfer/how-colossus-optimizes-data-placement-for-performance/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Colossus under the hood: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices Feedly Summary: From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system. As Google’s universal storage platform, Colossus achieves throughput that rivals or exceeds…
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Hacker News: European Cloud Computing Platforms
Source URL: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/cloud-computing-platforms Source: Hacker News Title: European Cloud Computing Platforms Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Exoscale, a cloud computing platform based in Switzerland, emphasizing its various services such as virtual servers, object storage, and managed databases. Notably, it highlights API key permission capabilities, appealing to professionals interested…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/gemini-embeddings/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API Feedly Summary: State-of-the-art text embedding via the Gemini API Gemini just released their new text embedding model, with the snappy name gemini-embedding-exp-03-07. It supports 8,000 input tokens – up from 3,000 – and outputs vectors that are a lot larger…
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Hacker News: voyage-code-3
Source URL: https://blog.voyageai.com/2024/12/04/voyage-code-3/ Source: Hacker News Title: voyage-code-3 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text presents voyage-code-3, a new embedding model optimized for code retrieval that significantly outperforms existing models in both performance and cost-efficiency. The introduction of Matryoshka learning and advanced quantization techniques allows for reduced storage requirements without compromising…
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Cloud Blog: Instant snapshots: protect Compute Engine workloads from errors and corruption
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/introducing-compute-engine-instant-snapshots/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Instant snapshots: protect Compute Engine workloads from errors and corruption Feedly Summary: Imagine you’re an application administrator performing an application upgrade within a one-hour maintenance window, when all of a sudden the upgrade fails. You now want to initiate your rollback procedures. The normal course of action in…