today is the 899 episode of
techlinked that means absolutely nothing but we thought we mention it NVIDIA
unveiled what they call the world's most powerful chip for AI earlier today even
though they haven't tasted my homemade silic and crisps it's what robots crave
CEO Jensen Wang held up the Blackwell
gb200 chip next to an h100 the chip that
catapulted nidia's value into the trillions of dollars to presumably
publicly humiliate it the gb2 200 itself
is four times more powerful than an h100
but when it's incorporated into the new dgx nvl 72 system it can achieve 30
times the inference performance at 25 times lower energy consumption enabling
it to run llms with up to 27 trillion parameters more than I have in there
theoretically at least since The Cutting Edge gp4 is thought to have around 1.7
trillion but Jensen didn't just talk about chat Bots you may recall that
NVIDIA used to be a graph company so he talked a lot about creating digital
twins AKA simulating physical objects buildings and even planet Earth to
detect and solve issues like climate change virtually and it's just that
simple now NVIDIA's fellow Tech Giants who are all working on AI chips of their
own probably have mixed feelings about NVIDIA announcing a massively upgraded
successor to the most in demand Hardware of all time but what choice do they have
except to buy it or fall behind so they all lined up to kiss Jensen's ring in
the form of their logo is being shown on screen yeah Jensen was killing it
according to Ryan Shrout I mean he sold out San Jose's sap Center to talk about
an AI processor the man's at the top of his game get him a turtleneck except
when he tried to explain the standard ratio of tokens to words and ended up
admitting this is not going well only
Human After All destroy him you see he's just a man Apple wants Google's AI on
iPhones according to Mark German team Tim is seeking Gemini to power upcoming
G of AI Fe features that will debut in iOS 18 this year apparently Apple also
recently held talks with open AI trying to reach a similar deal Apple CEO Tim
Cook already promised a big AI announcement that is expected to occur
at WDC in June so the move to use another company general of AI suggests
Apple's having a bit of trouble with their Homegrown Solutions a little shy
it certainly doesn't help that apple is courting Google for their generative
solution not long after they had to pause Gemini's ability to generate
images of humans due to some wacky historical revisions this isn't to say
that Apple hasn't made progress on AI just last week researchers from the
company published a paper detailing advancements they've made in creating
multimodal large language models which is the cool kind apparently their new
method both increases performance while reducing the need for follow-up prompts
to achieve the desired result I need this for my
teenager dad jokes so yeah apple might not be ready for prime time but that's
because they're taking it slow they've been burned they're not say locking
themselves inside for 4 months to push out a chat box like X AI who just open
source the base model powering said chatbot You' think Apple might try to
save themselves some money and use grock but I guess that's too cringe so they're
going with the AI that put minorities in we mock uniforms I had a dream like that
once they could have worn them this the plot to the get out prequel and a new
meta Quest headset may have leaked last week twice like all the best content on
internet the most recent leak was first published on Reddit before being
reposted to Twitter the Tweet contains screenshots allegedly from a meta user
research Zoom meeting showing details of the meta Quest 3s but the authenticity
of the images is still up for debate now last year the Verge did report that meta
had plans to release a more accessible headset in 2024 so many enthusiasts have
been expecting a more budget friendly version of the quest 3 referred to as
the quest 3 light you can have if you're on a diet a money diet lower in cas
and cash earlier last week however VR accessory seller VR Panda tweeted
alleged renders of the light that are very different for the more recent zoom
pictures the unit is clearly lacking any form of pass through suggesting the
headset would have no AR functionality meanwhile the newer alleged leaks
clearly show a funky looking front-facing camera array and possible
marketing images inviting consumers to discover mixed reality while these newer
leaks feature far more information they may be too detailed to be legitimate
after all if I was going to risk running with meta's legal team by leaking
internal documents I probably blur my face from the screenshots no matter how
good I looked in a collge shirt or spelt turtleneck wow felt cute might get sued
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a big week for foldable phone leaks according to reports Samsung will be
releasing both a budget and high-end version of its Galaxy zold 6 the
lower-end model will allegedly cost around $800 an amount consumers might
actually pay though there will be trade-offs like no S Pen support and a
smaller battery than the full fat version meanwhile according to an
unconfirmed Apple road map and market research company omia Apple will release
a foldable iPhone in 20206 when we're all already dead while we don't know
much else about the foldable iPhone I'm confident that it won't be $800 but it
will be sentient and racist Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8s gen 3 chip
as a cheaper alternative to to the company's Flagship 8 gen 3 S means less
good this time the 8S Gen 3 is seemingly meant to occupy a thin Niche between
being less powerful than the current Flagship without giving up too many
features it differs from the last gen Flagship 8 Gen 2 in two key ways the 8S
gen 3 has a newer CPU and support on device generative AI in many ways the 8S
Gen 3 is the successor to the 7 plus Gen 2 who's counting of course that was
released last year you remember but you might not expect that since once again
the tech world is demonstrating its complete inability to name things
comprehensibly Huawei is developing an archival storage system using Magneto El
electric discs and this is definitely my origin story they have 90% lower power
consumption than hard disk drives how these discs work in practice is still
uncertain China some sources believe the Magneto electric discs are spun down
discs that power down or turn off to save energy While others claim the discs
are a combination of magnetic tape and flash memory whatever the case every
data hoarder in the audience is already salivating they love these updates
unquestionably a worse superhero name SpaceX has a apparently $1.8 billion
contract to build hundreds of spy satellites on behalf of us intelligence
that's according to multiple sources for Reuters while it's currently unclear
when the new satellite network will come online sources say its Earth Imaging
capabilities would be used both by the US government and its military to
quickly spot potential targets almost anywhere on the globe including in
climate change so now they can finally track down a mysterious and dangerous
fugitive known only as Waldo space VIP a
tourism firm is offering a near space fine dining experience aboard space
perspectives spaceship Neptune the world's only carbon neutral spaceship in
the sense that it's basically just a high altitude balloon six passengers
will dine at an altitude of 19 miles as they watch the sunrise over the curve of
the Earth the menu was created by award-winning Chef Rasmus monk not being
mistaken by act Tony Shalo there he
is each passenger will be expected to pay a tepid half million for the trip
which just goes to show that the cost of food has gotten crazy in space No One
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