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Today is the 899th episode of TechLinked.

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That means absolutely nothing, but we thought we'd mention it. NVIDIA unveiled what they call

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the world's most powerful chip for AI. Earlier today, even though they haven't tasted

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my homemade silicon crisps, it's what robots crave.

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CEO Jensen Huang held up the Blackwell GB200 chip

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next to an H100, the chip that catapulted NVIDIA's value

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into the trillions of dollars to presumably publicly humiliate it.

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The GB200 itself is four times more powerful

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than an H100. But when it's incorporated into the new DGX-NVL72 system,

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it can achieve 30 times the inference performance at 25 times lower energy consumption,

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enabling it to run LLMs with up to 27 trillion parameters.

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More than I have in there, theoretically at least, since the cutting edge GPT-4

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is thought to have around 1.7 trillion. But Jensen didn't just talk about chatbots.

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You may recall that NVIDIA used to be a graphics company, so he talked a lot about creating digital twins,

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aka simulating physical objects, buildings that even planet Earth, to detect and solve issues,

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like climate change, virtually. And it's just that simple.

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Now, NVIDIA's fellow tech giants who are all working on AI chips of their own

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probably have mixed feelings about NVIDIA announcing a massively upgraded successor

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to the most in-demand hardware of all time. But what choice do they have,

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except to buy it or fall behind? So they all lined up to kiss Jensen's ring

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in the form of their logos being shown on screen. Yeah, Jensen was killing it according to Ryan Schraut.

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I mean, he sold out San Jose's SAP Center

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to talk about an AI processor. The man's at the top of his game, get him a turtleneck.

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Except when he tried to explain the standard ratio of tokens to words and ended up admitting,

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this is not going well. Only human after all.

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Destroy him. You see, he's just a man. Apple wants Google's AI on iPhones,

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according to Mark Gurman. Team Tim is seeking Gemini to power upcoming

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generative AI features that will debut in iOS 18 this year.

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Apparently, Apple also recently held talks with OpenAI trying to reach a similar deal.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook already promised a big AI announcement

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that is expected to occur at WDC in June. So the move to use another company's generative AI

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suggests Apple's having a bit of trouble with their homegrown solutions.

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You're a little shy. It certainly doesn't help that Apple is courting Google

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for their generative solution not long after. They have to pause Gemini's ability to generate images

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of humans due to some wacky historical revisions.

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This isn't to say that Apple hasn't made progress on AI.

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Just last week, researchers from the company published a paper detailing advancements they've made

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in creating multimodal large language models, which are the cool kind.

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Apparently their new method both increases performance while reducing the need for follow-up prompts

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to achieve the desired result. I need this for my teenager.

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I need to do dad jokes. So yeah, Apple might not be ready for primetime,

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but that's because they're taking it slow. They've been burned. They're not say locking themselves inside for four months

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to push out a chatbot like XAI,

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who just open sourced the base model powering said chatbot.

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You'd think Apple might try to save themselves some money and use GROC, but I guess that's too cringe.

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So they're going with the AI that put minorities in Wehrmacht uniforms.

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I had a dream like that once. They could have worn them. This is the plot to the get out prequel.

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And a new meta quest headset may have leaked last week, twice.

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Like all the best content on the internet, the most recent leak was first published on Reddit

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before being reposted to Twitter. The tweet contains screenshots allegedly

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from a meta user research zoom meeting showing details of the meta quest 3S.

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But the authenticity of the images is still up for debate. Now last year, the Verge did report

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that meta had plans to release a more accessible headset in 2024.

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So many enthusiasts have been expecting a more budget friendly version of the quest 3,

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referred to as the quest 3 light. You can have it if you're on a diet, a money diet.

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It's lower in calories. And cash. Earlier last week, however, VR accessory seller VR Panda

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tweeted alleged renders of the light that are very different for the more recent zoom pictures.

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The unit is clearly lacking any form of pass through suggesting the headset would have no AR functionality.

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Meanwhile, the newer alleged leaks clearly show a funky looking front facing camera array

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and possible marketing images inviting consumers to discover mixed reality.

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While these newer leaks feature far more information, they may be too detailed to be legitimate.

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After all, if I was gonna risk running with meta's legal team by leaking internal documents,

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I'd probably blur my face from the screenshots. No matter how good I looked in a college shirt

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or svelte turtleneck, felt cute, might get sued.

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Well, what can I say about the quick bits?

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I don't know. Pretty quick. It's been a big week for foldable phone leaks.

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According to reports, Samsung will be releasing both a budget and high end version of its Galaxy Z Fold 6.

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The lower end model will allegedly cost around $800.

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And amount consumers might actually pay. Though there will be trade-offs like no S Pen support

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and a smaller battery than the full fat version. Meanwhile, according to an unconfirmed Apple roadmap

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and market research company, Omdia. Apple will release a foldable iPhone in 2026

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when we're all already dead. While we don't know much else about the foldable iPhone,

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I'm confident that it won't be $800. But it will be sentient and racist.

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Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8S Gen 3 chip

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as a cheaper alternative to the company's flagship, 8 Gen 3.

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S means less good this time. The 8S Gen 3 is seemingly meant to occupy a thin niche

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between being less powerful than the current flagship without giving up too many features.

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It differs from the last Gen flagship, 8 Gen 2,

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in two key ways. The 8S Gen 3 has a newer CPU and support

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on device generative AI. In many ways, the 8S Gen 3 is the successor

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to the 7 Plus Gen 2. Who's counting?

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That was released last year, you remember? But you might not expect that since, once again,

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the tech world is demonstrating its complete inability to name things comprehensively.

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Huawei is developing an archival storage system using magneto-electric disks.

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And this is definitely my origin story. They have 90% lower power consumption than hard disk drives.

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How these disks work in practice is still uncertain.

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China, some sources believe the magneto-electric disks

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are spun down disks that power down or turn off to save energy.

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While others claim the disks are a combination of magnetic tape and flash memory.

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Whatever the case, everyday to order in the audience is already salivating.

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They love these updates. Unquestionably a worst superhero name.

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SpaceX has a apparently $1.8 billion contract

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to build hundreds of spy satellites on behalf of US intelligence.

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That's according to multiple sources for Reuters. While it's currently unclear

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when the new satellite network will come online, sources say its earth imaging capabilities

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would be used both by the US government and its military

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to quickly spot potential targets almost anywhere in the globe.

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Including climate change. So now they can finally track down a mysterious and dangerous fugitive known only as Waldo.

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Space VIP, a tourism firm, is offering a near space fine dining experience

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aboard Space Perspectives Spaceship Neptune.

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The world's only carbon neutral spaceship in the sense that it's basically

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just a high altitude balloon. Six passengers will dine at an altitude of 19 miles

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as they watch the sunrise over the curve of the earth. The menu was created by award-winning chef Rasmus Monk.

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Not to be mistaken by actor Tony Shalu.

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There he is. Each passenger will be expected to pay

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a tepid half million for the trip, which just goes to show that the cost of food

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has gotten crazy. Space no one can hear you weep.

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It'll cost you nothing to come back on Wednesday for more crazy tech news.

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Unless you're watching this at work, in which case it could cost you a job,

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but it'd be worth it. They don't know what you do.