Links for 2024-03-15
Compute:
Built for AI, this chip moves beyond transistors for huge computational gains https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2024/03/06/built-ai-chip-moves-beyond-transistors-huge-computational-gains
Cerebras Systems Unveils World’s Fastest AI Chip with Whopping 4 Trillion Transistors https://www.cerebras.net/press-release/cerebras-announces-third-generation-wafer-scale-engine
Efficient AI Ahead: USC’s Memristor Breakthrough Transforms Analog Computing https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-analog-chip-architecture-high-precision.html
Inside The Massive GPU Buildout At Meta Platforms https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/03/13/inside-the-massive-gpu-buildout-at-meta-platforms/
Thermodynamic Computing Explainer https://x.com/Andercot/status/1767252816660471878 (see also: https://x.com/AdamMarblestone/status/1767538487480271095)
What Is a GPU? The Chips Powering the AI Boom, and Why They’re Worth Trillions https://singularityhub.com/2024/03/13/what-is-a-gpu-the-chips-powering-the-ai-boom-and-why-theyre-worth-trillions/
AI:
DexCap: a $3,600 open-source hardware stack that records human finger motions to train dexterous robot manipulation. https://dex-cap.github.io/
Google presents Synth^2: Boosting Visual-Language Models with Synthetic Captions and Image Embeddings https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07750
“Apps made the smartphone. Now, companies are increasingly leveraging AI to envision a world without them.” https://www.wired.com/story/these-companies-have-a-plan-to-kill-apps/ [no paywall: https://archive.is/KXRHH]
“Remember the famous 2019 paper on Generative Tensorial Reinforcement Learning (GENTRL) in Nature Biotechnology? Here is a big follow-up - generation conditions confirmed all the way into Phase I human clinical trials. Another milestone for generative AI in biomedicine” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02143-0
Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku: Claude 3 Haiku is three times faster than its peers for the vast majority of workloads, processing 21K tokens (~30 pages) per second for prompts under 32K tokens https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-haiku
Miscellaneous:
‘Dramatic’ inroads against aggressive brain cancer https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/03/dramatic-inroads-against-aggressive-brain-cancer/
New method measures the 3D position of individual atoms https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/050-2024
It’s not only opposites that attract – new study shows like-charged particles can come together https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-01-it-s-not-only-opposites-attract-new-study-shows-charged-particles-can-come-together
“I Fought A Street Fighter” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BnwGrUcUK4
“I Entered A BJJ Tournament To Prove It Doesn't Work” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJ2vt8wUbY
Ukraine:
Another oil refinery in Russia was attacked overnight. This time, the refinery in the Kaluga region. Huge bang after impact. https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1768542560027394368
Macron says a Russian victory in Ukraine "would reduce Europe's credibility to zero," and would mean that "we have no security." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/03/14/macron-says-russian-ukraine-victory-would-reduce-europe-s-credibility-to-zero_6619721_7.html
“French President Emmanuel Macron called President Vladimir Putin's Russia an adversary that would not stop in Ukraine if it defeated Kyiv's troops in the two-year-old conflict, urging Europeans to not be "weak" and to get ready to respond.” https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-macron-says-europe-must-be-ready-war-if-it-wants-peace-2024-03-14/
The outcome of the war in Ukraine will be decided this spring and summer, the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said this evening after holding meetings in Washington. Many analysts are expecting a major Russian offensive this summer. https://news.sky.com/story/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-putin-election-nuclear-sky-news-blog-latest-12541713?postid=7383639#liveblog-body
“WTAF! We are defending the lines without any cover fire. We are at the point where we are leaving our dead where they fall. Our trenches are pummelled by artillery so we move into craters left from their artillery or into drainage pipes. My unit has 100% injuries. Hell on earth!” https://x.com/AriahBen2024/status/1768154366102712632