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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B: 🐧🦩 Who needs legs?!

Sep 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/12/qwen3-next/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B: 🐧🦩 Who needs legs?! Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Qwen announced two new models via their Twitter account (nothing on their blog yet): Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking. They make some big claims on performance: Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct approaches our 235B flagship. Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking outperforms Gemini-2.5-Flash-Thinking. The name “80B-A3B" indicates 80 billion parameters…

Cloud Blog: Fast and efficient AI inference with new NVIDIA Dynamo recipe on AI Hypercomputer

Sep 10, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/ai-inference-recipe-using-nvidia-dynamo-with-ai-hypercomputer/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Fast and efficient AI inference with new NVIDIA Dynamo recipe on AI Hypercomputer Feedly Summary: As generative AI becomes more widespread, it’s important for developers and ML engineers to be able to easily configure infrastructure that supports efficient AI inference, i.e., using a trained AI model to make…

Cloud Blog: vLLM Performance Tuning: The Ultimate Guide to xPU Inference Configuration

Aug 25, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/vllm-performance-tuning-the-ultimate-guide-to-xpu-inference-configuration/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: vLLM Performance Tuning: The Ultimate Guide to xPU Inference Configuration Feedly Summary: Additional contributors include Hossein Sarshar, Ashish Narasimham, and Chenyang Li. Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing how we interact with technology, but serving these powerful models efficiently can be a challenge. vLLM has rapidly become…

Cloud Blog: 101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints

Aug 21, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/real-world-gen-ai-use-cases-with-technical-blueprints/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: 101+ gen AI use cases with technical blueprints Feedly Summary: A little over a year ago, we published a list of generative AI use cases that has since grown to include more than 600 examples of how organizations are putting AI to work. Yet for many developers and…

Cloud Blog: How much energy does Google’s AI use? We did the math

Aug 21, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/measuring-the-environmental-impact-of-ai-inference/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How much energy does Google’s AI use? We did the math Feedly Summary: AI is unlocking scientific breakthroughs, improving healthcare and education, and could add trillions to the global economy. Understanding AI’s footprint is crucial, yet thorough data on the energy and environmental impact of AI inference —…

Cloud Blog: Rightsizing LLM Serving on vLLM for GPUs and TPUs

Aug 19, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/rightsizing-llm-serving-on-vllm-for-gpus-and-tpus/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Rightsizing LLM Serving on vLLM for GPUs and TPUs Feedly Summary: Additional contributors include Hossein Sarshar and Ashish Narasimham. Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing how we interact with technology, but serving these powerful models efficiently can be a challenge. vLLM has rapidly become the primary choice for…

Cloud Blog: Scalable AI starts with storage: Guide to model artifact strategies

Aug 14, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/scalable-ai-starts-with-storage-guide-to-model-artifact-strategies/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Scalable AI starts with storage: Guide to model artifact strategies Feedly Summary: Managing large model artifacts is a common bottleneck in MLOps. Baking models into container images leads to slow, monolithic deployments, and downloading them at startup introduces significant delays. This guide explores a better way: decoupling your…

Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons details evolving risks — and defenses

Aug 14, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-new-threat-horizons-details-evolving-risks-and-defenses/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: New Threat Horizons details evolving risks — and defenses Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for August 2025. Today, our Office of the CISO’s Bob Mechler and Anton Chuvakin dive into the key trends and evolving threats that we tracked in our…

Google Online Security Blog: Android’s pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve Prestigious SESIP Level 5 Security Certification

Aug 12, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/08/Android-pKVM-Certified-SESIP-Level-5.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Android’s pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve Prestigious SESIP Level 5 Security Certification Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The announcement about the pKVM achieving SESIP Level 5 certification marks a significant advancement in open-source security for consumer electronics, particularly in supporting…

Cloud Blog: Announcements for AI Hypercomputer: The latest infrastructure news for ML practitioners

Aug 5, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/q2-2025-ai-hypercomputer-updates/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcements for AI Hypercomputer: The latest infrastructure news for ML practitioners Feedly Summary: Curious about the latest in AI infrastructure from Google Cloud? Every three months we share a roundup of the latest AI Hypercomputer news, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Read on to learn new ways…

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